
Mbira
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Search complete. 10 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Mbira".
Sep 11, 2026
Fil Eisler Interview: ‘Outer Banks’, ‘Fire Country’, ‘Sheriff Country’, ‘Momo’, Sam Ryder & Robbie Williams
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41:37Phil EislerGUEST
So I go, this would be really good on that film, even if I really don't know it's going to be really good on that film.
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41:42Phil EislerGUEST
Like, this thing right here is called an Array Imbira.
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41:45Phil EislerGUEST
Yeah.
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41:46Phil EislerGUEST
And it's basically like a gigantic kalimba and piano sort of thing.
Singer-songwriter Kelli Ray Yates, coffee shop jams and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame trivia
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30:39Josh CecilHOST
Okay, that sounds nice.
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30:41Josh CecilHOST
A little, what's that? Kalimba
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30:42speaker_7UNKNOWN
in the back.
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30:43speaker_7UNKNOWN
Oh, that's nice.
Nepal tries to rescue trapped hydropower workers
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21:11Marco WermanHOST
Zig Zag Band Zig-Zag Band came to define music known as Chigil.
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21:26Marco WermanHOST
It's a style unique to Zimbabwe, a mix of reggae, guitar lines inspired by the sounds of the Mbira thumb piano, plus brass arrangements and dance rhythms.
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21:35Marco WermanHOST
The lyrics are sung in the language of the Shona people, the largest ethnic group in Zimbabwe.
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21:41Marco WermanHOST
Zing-Zag
The kings of Chigiyo music
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0:33Carolyn BeelerHOST
Zigzag band came to define music known as Chigil.
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0:36Carolyn BeelerHOST
It's a style unique to Zimbabwe, a mix of reggae, guitar lines inspired by the sounds of the Mbira thumb piano, plus brass arrangements and dance rhythms.
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0:45Carolyn BeelerHOST
The lyrics are sung in the language of the Shona people, the largest ethnic group in Zimbabwe.
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0:52speaker_1UNKNOWN
Thank you.
My Friends Are Illiterate - Picky Boys Podcast #438
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34:45JTHOST
But if I want to have a cool, fun answer like you guys, I'll go.
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34:50AntonioHOST
I actually like the Kalimba.
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34:51AntonioHOST
I'm going to be honest.
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34:52AntonioHOST
What the hell is that? Also plucky.
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35:38AntonioHOST
Destroyed the shit.
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35:38AntonioHOST
Destroyed the shit of the kalimba.
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35:40AntonioHOST
Kalimba just got dusted.
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35:41AntonioHOST
Sorry about that.
BREAKFAST SHOW ON TREASON CHARGES
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43:34Emmanuel MwambaHOST
Because we know there were three operations, that Brian Munduile's commercial office, the other office, uh, in Long Acres, and now the home in Kablonga, where they stormed the area.
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43:45Emmanuel MwambaHOST
But what I wanted to emphasize is they've introduced a term, exchange of fire, and you have seen Kalimba and news diggers begin to implement quickly as if it is this, the truth.
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43:56Emmanuel MwambaHOST
I've been speaking to lawyers I know, people related to this case, and people are fearing for the life, for example, of Patrick Mwanza, fearing for, uh, some of those people that are detained.
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44:09Emmanuel MwambaHOST
What I can tell you is that they were severely tortured.
MILITIAS VS COUP DETAT
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40:28Emmanuel MwambaHOST
Evidence is overwhelming, the Gen 20 are everywhere.
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40:32Emmanuel MwambaHOST
But what has the state done? The militia and militia talk, promoted by ZNBC, Kalimba, and news diggers, and they want that story to dominate.
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40:42Emmanuel MwambaHOST
It's a scare tactics against our officials.
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40:46Emmanuel MwambaHOST
It's a scare tactic against our potential witness.
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42:55Emmanuel MwambaHOST
He's sitting on evidence of this G20 and others.
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42:59Emmanuel MwambaHOST
They target Jonas Zimbabwe, our lawyer, who's been coordinating this process.
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43:05Emmanuel MwambaHOST
So the crackdown facilitated by ZNBC, facilitated by Kalimba News Diggers, is exactly to promote this phantom fear that there's a militia.
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43:16Emmanuel MwambaHOST
Turn every card.
Kalimba Stories
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6:34Doc BrooksHOST
White developed an affinity for the dual primitive and futuristic melodic tones of the mibra, or its more popular name, kalimba.
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6:44Doc BrooksHOST
Mbira are a family of musical instruments traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.
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6:50Doc BrooksHOST
All consist of a wooden board often fitted with a resonator, with attached staggered metal tines played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs and right and left forefingers.
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7:04Doc BrooksHOST
Musicologists classified it as a lamellophone and part of the plucked idiophone line of musical instruments.