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Malunga solo

Translated Title Solo performance on the malunga
Track Artist n/a
Notes This is an instrumental solo played on the malunga musical bow. This type of piece is normally played as a solo or to accompany the player's singing while walking in Muslim neighborhoods to receive alms. It is also used during processions to the shrines and during dances in the damal.

Sidi Salam, nishandar (emblem bearer) of the Sidis, plays the musical bow, also known as Bava Gor's emblem, nishan. By moving its gourd resonator nearer and farther from his body, he creates different timbres and overtones, making quasi-vocal sounds. It is used to communicate words such as "Allah hu nabi ji" to awaken the faithful during Ramzan, and during damal and qawwali. (Source: Sidi Sufis: Aftican Indian Mystics of Gujarat - CD liner notes by Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy)
Country(s) India
Culture Group(s) Sidi
Duration 2:11

African Indian traditions - Sidi dhamal

Various Artists ARCE00012

These four short devotional songs are usually sung and drummed during the ecstatic dance known as damal but may also be sung in the shrines, for programs, or for recordings. The texts address many aspects of nature and spirituality and some build to a feverish pitch of devotional excitement. Damal can refer to fire walking as well as to wild and tumultuous merriment, both of which the Sidis practice during the annual urs to their black Sufi saint, Gori Pir. The Sidis also call it goma, a Bantu word for drum or dance widely used in Africa (Swahili ngoma), or zikr, "recollection," because such songs repeat the praises and remembrances of the Prophet and saints of Islam and Sufism, including the Sidi saints.
Country(s) India
Culture Group(s) Sidi
Year of Release 2003
Record Label ARCE
Source Archive Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE)
Credits Collected by Mantravadi Umashankar ; Recorded by Mantravadi Umashankar

Play	101	Sobilale	n/a	3:29
Play	102	Kanga misri mevo	n/a	1:54
Play	103	Man mera laga Bava Gor se	n/a	2:20
Play	104	Goma, Goma, Sidi Goma	n/a	4:22
Play	105	Malunga solo	n/a	2:11

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