Music of Garambura
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The music of Garambura has, over its years of development and history, come to encompass a wide range of genres, styles, motifs and art forms while utilising a myriad of cultural influences, both domestically and from abroad. Garambura has Bahia's largest music industry and sound recording industry by market capital, and is home to some of Bahia's most illustrious music festivals and studios. Major Bahian labels such as Sebaka and Courtet–Yucunou Company are headquartered in Mambiza, a city renowned for its musical diversity.
Garamburan music can be categorised in a number of genres, including electronic, folk, hip hop, jazz, pop, R&B, rock and soul, as well as hundreds of subgenres that encaptulate the country's cultural diversity. Many native genres, such as coupé-décalé, gondaphonics, gqom, kizomba, kwaito, makossa, mbaqanga, ndombolo, Nyikaitsva blues and semba take significant influence from native musical traditions, often incorporating northern musical influences into traditional Bahian ritualistic music.
Culturally, music from Garambura has had a significant impact on music in Bahia as well as other global music genres. Baiabeat was partially pioneered in Mambiza, and is now popular across Euclea and the Asterias. Diasporic music is popular across the Euclean Community, particularly in Gaullica. Large cultural exchanges have taken place between the countries, influenced by both native and Chennois populations. Garambura has participated in the Euclovision Song Contest since 1999.
Traditional music
Colonial era
Littoral jazz
Sotirian music
Modern music
Electronic, house, dance
Coupé-décalé and ndombolo
Gondaphonics
Gqom
Kizomba and semba
Folk
Hip hop
Kwaito
Jazz
Makossa
Mbaqanga
Pop
Djeli pop
R&B and soul
Rock music
Nyikaitsva blues
Nyikaitsva blues takes its name from the mountain range close to where its stylistic background originates. Nyikaitsva blues refers to a select style of blues music originating from rural communities that live near the mountains or in the north of the country. It is often characterised by smooth, slick guitar and droning, repetitive and often psychedelic vocals. Nyikaitsva blues share incredible similar origins and sounds to Boual blues, native to the peoples of the Boual ka Bifie in Mabifia and Yemet.
The genre's birth was in the 1980s, and initially it was popular amongst Shuku and Njinji peoples, who adopted it into their own musical traditions. Due to linguistic and cultural isolation, Shuku Nyikaitsva is often critically considered to be the purest form of Nyikaitsva blues, having remained relatively untouched by northern and domestic musical trends. Chewa Nyikaitsva is by far the most commercially successful variant, having experienced a cultural boom in the mid-2000s as Euclean and Asterian producers oversaw the creation and promotion of some of Nyikaitsva's most well-known artists, including Kaswatu Kabili and Komaniso. Kabili's use of autotune on the electric guitar is often viewed as revolutionary for the genre.
Punk rock
When punk rock began to become popular in Estmere and Gaullica, the first punk rock bands began to emerge amongst Chennois bands who regularly travelled between Gaullica and Garambura. Punkesque vocals had been pioneered independently by Chloe Kolisi and her spat of popularity as one of the faces of djeli pop in the 1970s, but punk as a genre was influenced almost entirely by its Euclean counterparts. As such, punk in Garambura has often been criticised for its disproportionately white makeup, a trend that has continued into the modern day.
Popular punk bands in Garambura include Izono, LMDTY and Tourniquet.