Mapfumo...on the electric guitar the sounds and rhythms of the mbira. The intensely complicated rhythms played on the drums were meant to represent the stamping of dancers’ feet. In 1976 Mapfumo formed the Acid Band, which produced a blend of popular and traditional music as a vehicle to carry thinly veiled political messages; that music was called chimurenga...
Zimbabwean musical group
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