Michael Blake: Afrikosmos

Antony Gray

2023-04-14 • Instrumental

Tracklist

• 1
  Spotted Dikkop and Black Cuckoo
  1:27
• 2
  Linong tsa lesiba (Song of the Birds)
  1:10
• 3
  African Doves (Homage to Messiaen)
  1:51
• 4
  If I had wings I could fly
  2:32
• 5
  Walking Song (Homage to Percy Grainger)
  1:53
• 6
  Stroll to the Spaza Shop (Homage to Stanley Glasser)
  1:44
• 7
  Chorale (Homage to MMM)
  2:18
• 8
  Lyric Piece (Homage to Grieg)
  3:46
• 9
  Call and Response
  1:20
• 10
  Ntsikana's Bell
  1:48
• 11
  John Knox Bokwe's Plea for Africa
  1:27
• 12
  Heaven's Bow
  4:37
• 13
  iKos'tina
  1:44
• 14
  Variations on a Flute Tune
  1:25
• 15
  Emerging Melody
  4:04
• 16
  Stickfighting Song
  0:53
• 17
  Herding Song
  1:19
• 18
  Threshing Song
  1:25
• 19
  To Comfort a Child (Lullaby)
  1:25
• 20
  You Are a Real Rascal
  1:24
• 21
  Canon at the Octave
  1:15
• 22
  Wedding Song
  1:11
• 23
  Night Music
  9:44
• 24
  Self Delectative Song
  1:28
• 25
  Latshon'ilanga (The sun has set)
  1:41
• 26
  Song for the Evening
  1:45
• 27
  Unevensong
  3:28
• 28
  Four-note Patterns
  3:29
• 29
  Broken Line
  6:05
• 30
  Patterns in a Heptatonic Field
  4:18
• 31
  Supermoon (Homage to Henry Cowell)
  2:04
• 1
  Dance in Seakhi Rhythm (Homage to Bártok and JP Mohapeloa)
  3:22
• 2
  Chaconne in Mbaqanga Style
  1:40
• 3
  In Goema Style
  1:07
• 4
  Tickey-Draai
  1:07
• 5
  Da kom die Alibama
  1:12
• 6
  Diary of a Dung Beetle
  3:39
• 7
  Scents of Childhood 1 (Homage to Robert Schumann)
  1:33
• 8
  Scents of Childhood 2 (Homage to Robert Schumann)
  1:53
• 9
  Scents of Childhood 3 (Homage to Schumann and Puccini)
  7:38
• 10
  Interlocking Hands
  1:15
• 11
  Changing Times with Repeating Patterns
  2:37
• 12
  Five Finger Patterns
  1:30
• 13
  Weave
  2:19
• 14
  Distant Cowbells
  2:38
• 15
  Lusikisiki
  1:34
• 16
  Giyani
  4:39
• 17
  There Cried a Hippo
  3:18
• 18
  Reedpipe Dance
  2:41
• 19
  Slow Dance
  1:42
• 20
  Lebombo Bone
  2:01
• 1
  The Music Flows Jolly As It Won't Stop Forever
  1:39
• 2
  March (Homage to Stefan Wolpe)
  1:30
• 3
  Message from the Nduna (Homage to György Kurtág)
  2:06
• 4
  Ituri Rain Forest (Homage to JSB)
  1:36
• 5
  Reflection (Homage to Erik Satie)
  3:06
• 6
  Two Modes Interlocking
  2:16
• 7
  In the Hexatonic Mode
  0:49
• 8
  Major-Minor
  1:28
• 9
  Keep Left, Pass Right
  1:23
• 10
  Geyser off! Hat on!
  1:01
• 11
  Stay on Path
  1:25
• 12
  The Seven Steps
  1:15
• 13
  Ostinato with Cross-rhythms
  1:05
• 14
  Smoke and Mirrors
  1:07
• 15
  Postcards from South Africa
  1:29
• 16
  Une Sonnerie pour G.D.
  7:28
• 17
  High Fives
  3:19
• 18
  Sefapanosaurus
  1:41
• 19
  Thirds
  1:28
• 20
  Variations On 4Ths and 5Ths
  1:39
• 21
  Fifths
  1:24
• 22
  Seventh Must Fall
  3:42
• 23
  Haiku
  1:58
• 24
  Freedom Day Variation
  4:27