Timbila Muzimba

Last weekend some friends and I went to see a band called Timbila Muzimba play downtown. The band was awesome - mixing traditional Mozambican music (i.e. all the drums and the timbila - which are the xylophone looking instruments) with more modern stuff (i.e. a bass guitar). They started out with just the four drummers playing, then added the bass and the two timbila. I thought the pictures of them playing were interesting....





Note that some of the drums are homemade...


Couldn't resist photographing this...


The timbila is this xylophone type instrument.