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- Kora (album), Kora album released in 2007
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Khoemana
Khoemana, also known as Korana or Griqua, is a moribund Khoe language of South Africa.
Names
"Khoemana" (from khoe 'person' + mana 'language') is more commonly known as either Korana /kɒˈrɑːnə/ (also ǃOra /ˈkɔərə/ ~ !Gora), or Griqua (also Gri [xri], Xri, Xiri, Xirikwa), and sometimes as Cape Khoe or Cape Hottentot. The names are often treated as different languages (called South Khoekhoe when taken together), but they do not correspond to any actual dialect distinctions, and speakers may use "Korana" and "Griqua" interchangeably. Both names are also used more broadly, for example for the mixed-race Griqua people. There are (or were) several dialects of Khoemana, but the details are unknown.
Phonology
Khoemana is closely related to Khoekhoe, and the sound systems are broadly similar. The strongly aspirated Khoekhoe affricates are simply aspirated plosives [tʰ, kʰ] in Khoemana. However, Khoemana has an ejective velar affricate, /kxʼʔ/, which is not found in Khoekhoe, and a corresponding series of clicks, /ǀ͡χʼ ǁ͡χʼ ǃ͡χʼ ǂ͡χʼ/. Beach (1938) reported that the Khoekhoe of the time had a velar lateral ejective affricate, [k͡ʟ̝̊ʼ], a common realization or allophone of /kxʼ/ in languages with clicks, and it might be expected that this is true for Khoemana as well. In addition, about half of all lexical words in Khoemana began with a click, compared to a quarter in Khoekhoe.
Kora (instrument)
The kora is a 21-string lute-bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa.
Description
A kora is a mandinka harp built from a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator with a long hardwood neck. The skin is supported by two handles that run under it, and it supports a notched double free-standing bridge. It doesn't fit into any one category of musical instruments, but rather several, and must be classified as a "double-bridge-harp-lute". The strings run in two divided ranks, making it a double harp. They do not end in a soundboard but are held in notches on a bridge, making it a bridge harp. They originate from a string arm or neck and cross a bridge directly supported by a resonating chamber, making it a lute too.
The sound of a kora resembles that of a harp, though when played in the traditional style, it bears a closer resemblance to flamenco and delta blues guitar techniques. The player uses only the thumb and index finger of both hands to pluck the strings in polyrhythmic patterns (using the remaining fingers to secure the instrument by holding the hand posts on either side of the strings). Ostinato riffs ("Kumbengo") and improvised solo runs ("Birimintingo") are played at the same time by skilled players.
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Kora
ALBUMS
- 100 Anthems: Chillout released: 2008
100 Anthems: Chillout
Released 2008- She Cries Your Name
- Its Great When Were Together
- Star
- Juxtapozed With U
- Softly Broken
- Buena Vista
- Only Holy
- Moments in Time
- Flat Sound Concrete
- Abalad
- Setting Sun
- Butterfly Dress
- Seven Days of Bliss
- Malencon
- Knifes at the Ready
- Waters Run Deep
- No Longer Mine
- Blinded by Love
- Remember Me
- My Child in Africa
Kora
ALBUMS
- Light Years released: 2012
- Kora released: 2007
Kora
ALBUMS
- Ping Pong released: 2011
- The Best of Kora & Maanam released: 1996
- Ja pana w podróż zabiorę released: 1993
- The Best of Kora & Maanam, Volume 1 released: 1990
- Ola Ola! released:
Ola Ola!
- Nim zakwitnie tysiąc róż
- Serce matki
- Krakowski spleen
- Augustowskie noce
- Ola Ola!
- Wyjątkowo zimny maj
- To tango jest dla mojej matki
- Trudniej wierną być w sobotę
- Paranoja Is so Cold
- Pamiętasz była jesień
- Jeszcze jeden pocałunek
- Słońce jest okiem Boga
- Ta ostatnia niedziela
- Como Fue
- Pod papugami
- W krainie ciemności
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by: GWARVile forms of Necros lie rotting my mind
Feasting like maggots - maggots in flesh
So left your ruined cortex behind
Now the maggot knows glee as it nibbles on your spine!
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Maggots! Maggots!
Maggots are falling like rain!
Putrid pus-pools vomit blubonic plague
The bowels of the beast reek of puke
How to describe such vileness on the page
World maggot waits for the end of the age!
[Chorus]
Beneath a sky of maggots I walked
Until those maggots began to fall
I gaped at God to receive my gift
Bathed in maggots till the planet shit
[Repeat chorus a lot]
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