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Zuzana Novak是出生在英国的捷克裔女子，非洲Mbira琴演奏家，这种神秘古怪的乐器是广泛分布于非洲,各地名称不同,如Kalimba, Sanza, Kangombio, Leekembay，拇指钢琴等。
Mbira，几乎在津巴布韦的音乐里都用到这种奇妙而又古怪的乐器。原本在30年代的时候这种乐器临近绝种，不过在后来的60、70年代这种乐器得以重生，并且得到西方国家的大大赞赏。
Mbira的发声体部份就是上面一根根长短不一的弹性金属条，下面则用木或葫芦瓜作为共鸣箱。以往，这些金属条的原料只是在矿石中熔化出来的金属，现在则采用质素较高的钢制造。Mbira有很多不同的形状，钢条的数目也不一定。例如津巴布韦的Mbira是在木制的圆形音箱里，有22至28根钢条，排列成两排。据说，由这种乐器所演奏出来的音乐不仅能够赶走病人身上的邪气，还能起到祈雨的作用，因此在津巴布韦它是备受人们喜爱的乐器之一。
A singer and mbira player - the sacred plucked instrument that can connect you with spirits of your ancestors. Born in England, daughter of emigrants from former Czechoslovakia, in love with music from distant Zimbabwe. Perhaps the hide
only white woman in the world, who has ever actively participated in the whole-night bira rite of the Shona people of Zimbabwe, played in the hypnotic rhythm of mbira.
Zuzana lives in Yorkshire. She plucked mbira for the first time at her friends and in that moment she gave in to its sound. During her geography studies at SOAS in London she met the respected player Chartwell Dutiro, who taught culture of the Shona people and who became her mentor and teacher.
In 2001 she visited Zimbabwe for the first time. There she met lots of musicians and singers, who invited her to a spiritual ceremony.
“We played to soothe an anxious spirit who possessed a just-married woman and caused problems in her marriage. The ritual went on till late night and I lost notion of time. In the early morning there was a short break and one of the older musicians asked me whether I really played or just pretended that I pluck lamellas with my hands hidden in the gourd. I knew Bangisa, the song to welcome the daybreak. It’s a very demanding and hallowed song and suddenly I was to play it in front of the gathering. My fingers were cut to blood after playing all night, but I felt no pain. Everybody listened to me and finally the eldest ones gave a verdict: we respect you, now you are one of us. At the end one of the singers came to me and asked me whether I would want to marry her son and stay in the village!”, says Zuzana Novak about her music debut.
The world discovered her thanks to Ian Anderson, editor-in-chief of fRoots music magazine, who enrolled her song Nhemamusas on the fRoots prestige quarterly sampler in January 2007.
Today Zuzana Novak gives concerts around whole Europe, famous Charlie Gillett from BBC radio recommends her to his listeners and Peter Gabriel invites Zuzana to his world-famous WOMAD festival.
In the Czech Republic, where she comes back regularly to visit her sister and grandfather, Zuzana performed for the first time in 2007 on the Folk Holidays festival in Námě nad Oslavou. Concert was recorded on July 24, 2007 within the Folk Holidays festival in Námě nad Oslavou, Czech Republic, and released on album Home Brewed Mbira.
In Námě, the songs of the Zimbabwean mbira to praise the ancestors and a small man, who managed to overcome a big cow, made the astounded audience to seek the way out from this magic music for a long time after the tones quietened down; and if there is any way out at all.
