Artist: Various Artists

Title: Kalahari San / Various

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2012

Label: Folkways Records

UPC: 093070431522

Genre: International

Album Tracks

1. Gut Pluriarc with 3 Men's Voices
2. Metal Pluriarc with One Woman's Voice
3. Gut Hunting Bow, Solo
4. Gut Hunting Bow with One Man's Voice
5. Gut Hunting Bow with Resonator and One Man's Voice
6. Sitengena with One Man's Voice
7. Te Bow with Two Women's Voices
8. Tin Can Bow Solo
9. Sitengena Solo: "Rain Song"
10. Sitengena with One Man's Voice
11. Gut Pluriarc with One Man's Voice
12. Metal Pluriarc with One Woman's Voice
13. Guthunting Bow with One Man's Voice

Rather than performing for an audience, the !Kung San people from the northwestern Kalahari Desert region "play [music] for themselves, when the mood strikes them." Perhaps that's what makes it so compelling. Here is a demonstration of music played on gut pluriarc (bow lute), gut hunting bow and sitengena (thumb piano), with vocal accompaniment.