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Please Don't Leave Us

from Birds Falling from the Sky by Harmonica Pocket

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This song is performed on the Mbira -- a thumb piano traditionally played by the Shona people of Zimbabwe.

My teacher Erica Azim connected me with Fradreck Mujuru, the man who built the instruments that I bought. I picked up Fradreck from the airport one day and showed him around Seattle for a few hours.

The Mbira is traditionally used for sacred music. The song Please Don't Leave Us is a prayer to my ancestors, to stand behind me, to help me be more compassionate, and to show me how to grow into an elder someday.

As a white man playing this indigenous African instrument I wanted to be sensitive cultural appropriation, especially when including the instrument on a commercially released album. I remember sitting in the grass at the park and I asked Fradreck if it was okay if I composed and recorded songs on the Mbira. He asked me to show him what I meant. I played him this song and he listened intently. When I finished, after a nervous silence, he said "Yes this is good. This is okay."

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from Birds Falling from the Sky, released July 21, 2021
Keeth Monta Apgar - Mbira

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Harmonica Pocket Port Townsend, Washington

Acoustic & chill, The Harmonica Pocket will win you over with laid-back originals and playful re-workings of songs you love.

Recorded on a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest using solar electricity, their albums feature ukuleles and guitars strummed over tight vocal harmonies and delicate fingerplucked melodies. Horn sections swell and tiny musical secrets are woven into the corners of the mix. ... more

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