Midori Takada

WRWTFWW & MEG Museum (Geneva) are very happy to announce a new album by famed Japanese percussionist Midori Takada, Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter, her very own rendition of "Nhemamusasa", a traditional work emblematic of the musical repertoire for mbira of the Shona of Zimbabwe. Recorded in a live setting and played with instruments conserved in the collections of the MEG Museum.

Liner notes include:
An interview by Midori Takada
A point of view by Zimbabwean scholar, musician and activist Forward Mazuruse
Background information on the project by Isabel Garcia Gomez and Madeleine Leclair