AFRI-TUNES WEEK 18|| THE EPIC AFRICAN PALMWINE GUITAR||Groove BY @MAGICFINGERZ
Hello my people! What's popping!! How are you getting ready for the weekend upon us! I hope you've got some plans to chill. As for me, am already chilling into the weekend.
Yeah! It's Afri-tunes week 18! Another opportunity to share African sounds and vibes. And I've brought you a whole new afro sound called the palm wine guitar!!
I know that may sound a bit strange though, palm wine guitar??? What the hell is that? 😒
Well let me clarify you. Firstly, palm wine as the name denotes is simply a wine that is gotten from a palm tree that is widely enjoyed in the west African coast particularly in Nigeria.
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A FRESHLY TAPPED PALM WINE IN A LOCAL WINE DISH
In essence, palm wine guitar is a genre of music that emanated in the colonial time during fun time and parties where palm wine is the regular booze. In other words, the audience enjoyed palm wine as they enjoyed this genre of music that was mostly played by guitars and afro percussions.
History has it that it was born out of the fusion of Latin Spanish music and afro song pattern and that could be easily verified by musical inclined listeners because it contains almost the same chordal dynamics as Spanish guitar. For instance évident use of dominant se venths and 6ths and even thirds.
This genre has evolved so much that these days keyboards and horns like trumpets and saxophone now join in the band of palm wine guitar. Hence, it is now denoted as palm wine music.
It has also influenced a lot of African sounds such that what we call highlife music today contains great and visible elements of palm wine guitar. No wonder, guitars are indispensable in highlife bands.
Okay enough of the super stories, today I have cooked up several memorable PalmWine guitar sounds that I can recall and I have recorded it with a background afro percussion by @Jeromekeys in the above video!
So sit back and enjoy!!
I expect your comments and reblogs and up votes !!!
Many thanks to you for the support!!
Peace out!!
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