Recording Studio

Twiimbilane Studio: script writing lessons for radio drama

As part of Tonga.Onlines skills transfer and local content development, Twiimbilane Studio conducted some free lessons on script writing for radio drama to local artistes. The lessons, which ran for three days, started on Tuesday 28th August 2007 to Thursday 30th August 2007. There were nine (9) participants of which three (3) were female.

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Twiimbilane Studio update

Music Recordings and Musicians Practice

Musicians continued having access to practice at the studio and make their trial recordings. A sound card was received for the studio from AZFA and this is set to improve the quality of the recordings made. 

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Twiimbilane Studio update

The studio started the year on a sad note with the death of a veteran Kankobela player, Shadreck Munsaka who recorded songs like "Mwana waDimba Limeka" and "Ndipe mali yangu". His playing and singing will be greatly missed.

There are a number of studio activities that are running and that the studio plans to run this year but cannot do so at the present moment due to lack of equipment. I will, however, just focus on the current activities and not the intended - which we can bring up some other time.

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Update, Twiimbilane Studio

The Studio has worked closely with two artists, Shadrek Munsaka and Edward Mungombe that play the Tonga Kantimbwa and Kankobela musical instruments, Kwaabana Theatre Group’s cultural music and Mr Tiyofi’s modern guitar music to complete the project’s first CD for sharing during Xmas. Editing of the selected music for the CD is at an advanced stage. These instrument players are some of the artists that have confirmed their commitment to training some interested youth during the next year’s planned music workshops.
Sengamo Ndlovu