Healing Tree: Best of Stella Chiweshe

Stella Chiweshe | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 20, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Shanachie
• ASIN: B000000E50
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #518,527 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Huya Uzoona

2. Chigamba

3. Chipindura

4. Rwuye-Rwuye

5. Chachimurenga

6. Dande

7. Mudzimu Dzoka

8. Vana Vangu

9. Gwendere Gwendere

10. Chakwi

11. Nehondo

12. Mapiyemana

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music of the Spirit from Zimbabwe, February 25, 2002

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"tschipke1" (Folsom, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing Tree: Best of Stella Chiweshe (Audio CD)

Mbira, also known as the Calimba, is a musical instrument native to the region around Zimbabwe. It consists of strings in a box like case that are plucked by the thimbs and forefinger. It has a zither-like quality, but is a little more ethereal and refined.

Traditional Zimbabwean religion consists of a form of ancestor worship not dissimilar from that of some regions of the orient. The mbira is used in spiritual rituals in which the attendees can become possessed by and receive messages from their ancestors. The mbira is said to draw the spirits of departed loved ones through the spirits of the attendees.

The mbira has historically and culturally been the strict domain of men. Stella Chiweshe, however, was the first great female mbira master to break this tradition. She is a world famous artist and has appeared in the U.S. on tour most recently this year. Her own deep spirituality comes through in her playing, and it is difficult not to get carried away when listening to this album.

5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting Beauty, March 23, 2009

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Stephanie M. Kelly "WheezyNanna" (Florida Panhandle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healing Tree: Best of Stella Chiweshe (Audio CD)

This is a CD to listen to relaxed with your eyes closed...letting the songs take you where ever they will. Beautiful mbiri music. Stella Chiweshe is a Shamaness weaving spiritual truths in her songs.

1 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lotsa healing going on, March 19, 2002

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Andylyn (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing Tree: Best of Stella Chiweshe (Audio CD)

There's whole lot of healing going on these days, it seems. Hmmm...let's see; two women put out Mbira CD's and both have healing in the title. What is with this healing blather? Why is it that women feel the need to intrude into and sully a fine traditional music that is rightly the province of men. Is this all just a sad attempt to tap the earthmuffin new-age market? Is it one of those I-am-womyn-goddess-healer sort of things?