National Geographic Music (National Geographic)

This selection of historical recordings by Hugh Tracey represent the roots of what later became known as marrabenta music. Aside from the Zambian Copperbelt and Katanga Province in Congo, southern Mozambique was also a centre of guitar music in the '50s, having also developed its own distinctive sound and buzzing with wonderful individualists.

Listen to the enigmatic Feliciano Gomes sing about the problems of getting children, promiscuity of women, snobbishness, jealousy, and the supernatural. Enjoy Aurelio Kowano's virtuoso rhythm guitar playing, and others — now no longer forgotten.