Michael Blake: Afrikosmos

Michael Blake: Afrikosmos

Michael Blake: Afrikosmos album cover

released April 14, 2023

genre: Instrumental

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Tracks

Spotted Dikkop and Black Cuckoo

Linong tsa lesiba (Song of the Birds)

African Doves (Homage to Messiaen)

If I had wings I could fly

Walking Song (Homage to Percy Grainger)

Stroll to the Spaza Shop (Homage to Stanley Glasser)

Chorale (Homage to MMM)

Lyric Piece (Homage to Grieg)

Call and Response

Ntsikana's Bell

John Knox Bokwe's Plea for Africa

Variations on a Flute Tune

Emerging Melody

Stickfighting Song

To Comfort a Child (Lullaby)

You Are a Real Rascal

Canon at the Octave

Self Delectative Song

Latshon'ilanga (The sun has set)

Song for the Evening

Four-note Patterns

Patterns in a Heptatonic Field

Supermoon (Homage to Henry Cowell)

Dance in Seakhi Rhythm (Homage to Bártok and JP Mohapeloa)

Chaconne in Mbaqanga Style

Da kom die Alibama

Diary of a Dung Beetle

Scents of Childhood 1 (Homage to Robert Schumann)

Scents of Childhood 2 (Homage to Robert Schumann)

Scents of Childhood 3 (Homage to Schumann and Puccini)

Interlocking Hands

Changing Times with Repeating Patterns

Five Finger Patterns

Distant Cowbells

There Cried a Hippo