Matchume Zango
Timbila Muzimba Orchestra
2008
Maputo, Mozambique
Sou Tambor
This project is about a Mozambican writer called Jose Craveirinha, who wrote poems about drums, special African drums. That was to anuciente something and he said “I'm a drum in my heart, i sound like a drum”.
2004
Austria
Timbila Muzimba Orchestra
participated in the creation of the Electronic Music Project with Austrian composers and musicians based in Linz. The group performed in various locations in Austria.
1989
Austria
Novos Raios
Matchume Zango founded with other musicians the traditional music group “Novos Raios”.
1997
Maputo, Mozambique
Foundation of the Timbila Muzimba Orchestra
Matchume Zango founded together with other musicians the traditional music group “Timbila Muzimba”. The band is a ten-piece-orchestra made up of Mozambican Xylophones (Timbila) and African Percussion fused with electric bass, drums and saxophone. These large and spectacular Orchestras are part of the identity of the Chopi people from the province of Inhambane, in the South West of Mozambique. Their unique sound, their complex and magical use of polyrhythm, melody and dance, make them the pride of Mozambique.
