Michael Blake: Afrikosmos

75 SONGS • 2 HOURS AND 55 MINUTES • APR 14 2023

1

Spotted Dikkop and Black Cuckoo

01:27

2

Linong tsa lesiba (Song of the Birds)

01:10

3

African Doves (Homage to Messiaen)

01:51

4

If I had wings I could fly

02:32

5

Walking Song (Homage to Percy Grainger)

01:53

6

Stroll to the Spaza Shop (Homage to Stanley Glasser)

01:44

7

Chorale (Homage to MMM)

02:18

8

Lyric Piece (Homage to Grieg)

03:46

9

Call and Response

01:20

10

Ntsikana's Bell

01:48

11

John Knox Bokwe's Plea for Africa

01:27

12

Heaven's Bow

04:37

13

iKos'tina

01:44

14

Variations on a Flute Tune

01:25

15

Emerging Melody

04:04

16

Stickfighting Song

00:53

17

Herding Song

01:19

18

Threshing Song

01:25

19

To Comfort a Child (Lullaby)

01:25

20

You are a real rascal

01:24

21

Canon at the Octave

01:15

22

Wedding Song

01:11

23

Night Music

09:44

24

Self Delectative Song

01:28

25

Latshon'ilanga (The sun has set)

01:41

26

Song for the Evening

01:45

27

Unevensong

03:28

28

Four-note Patterns

03:29

29

Broken Line

06:05

30

Patterns in a Heptatonic Field

04:18

31

Supermoon (Homage to Henry Cowell)

02:04

32

Dance in Seakhi Rhythm (Homage to Bártok and JP Mohapeloa)

03:22

33

Chaconne in Mbaqanga Style

01:40

34

In Goema Style

01:07

35

Tickey-draai

01:07

36

Da kom die Alibama

01:12

37

Diary of a Dung Beetle

03:39

38

Scents of Childhood 1 (Homage to Robert Schumann)

01:33

39

Scents of Childhood 2 (Homage to Robert Schumann)

01:53

40

Scents of Childhood 3 (Homage to Schumann and Puccini)

07:38

41

Interlocking Hands

01:15

42

Changing Times with Repeating Patterns

02:37

43

Five Finger Patterns

01:30

44

Weave

02:19

45

Distant Cowbells

02:38

46

Lusikisiki

01:34

47

Giyani

04:39

48

There Cried a Hippo

03:18

49

Reedpipe Dance

02:41

50

Slow Dance

01:42

51

Lebombo Bone

02:01

52

The music flows jolly as it won't stop forever

01:39

53

March (Homage to Stefan Wolpe)

01:30

54

Message from the Nduna (Homage to György Kurtág)

02:07

55

Ituri Rain Forest (Homage to JSB)

01:36

56

Reflection (Homage to Erik Satie)

03:06

57

Two Modes Interlocking

02:16

58

In the Hexatonic Mode

00:49

59

Major-Minor

01:28

60

Keep left, pass right

01:23

61

Geyser off! Hat on!

01:01

62

Stay on Path

01:25

63

The Seven Steps

01:15

64

Ostinato with Cross-rhythms

01:05

65

Smoke and Mirrors

01:07

66

Postcards from South Africa

01:29

67

Une Sonnerie pour G.D.

07:28

68

High Fives

03:19

69

Sefapanosaurus

01:41

70

Thirds

01:28

71

Variations on 4ths and 5ths

01:39

72

Fifths

01:24

73

Seventh Must Fall

03:42

74

Haiku

01:58

75

Freedom Day Variation

04:27

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