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| The Shona Music Project is five American musicians who play contemporary and traditional music by the Shona people of Zimbabwe in southern Africa. Banning Eyre (guitar), Dirck Westervelt (banjo and bass), and Stuart Carduner (mbira) have all traveled to Zimbabwe to study with musicians there. They play in the style of the Shona people's sacred thumb piano, known as mbira. This instrument has long been used in religious ceremonies, but now it is also the basis of a unique and beautiful secular pop music, a lively expression of modern life in post-independence Zimbabwe. Maurizio Cabarelli (mbira) and Jeremy Carlstedt (drums) have not yet visited Zimbabwe, but they've been studying and playing the music here in the United States for years. The Shona Music Project is a spirited example of American musicians exploring the rich music of Africa. If you close your eyes and listen, you could be in a rollicking Harare nightclub, where ancient and modern cultures speak to one another through music. |
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