The sound moves. You listen.
Mazana Movement is a Zimbabwean acoustic ensemble led by elder master Sekuru Evason Gore.
Mbira. Ngoma. Hosho. Voice.
Music carried across generations — played live, without electric instrumentation or imitation. Rooted in Shona musical tradition. Made for the room you're in.
Lead and response interlocking in living motion
One instrument begins. Another answers. The rhythm folds back into itself. Voices enter. Hosho begins to move. Separate parts become one living pulse.
This is kushaura ne kutsinhira — the interlocking musical conversation at the heart of Mazana Movement.
It is not simply a rhythm to follow. It is a sound to enter.
The opening musical voice. The first mbira introduces the cycle, laying out harmonic pathways and inviting the room into dialogue.
The interlocking counterpart. Striking between the lead notes, it completes the phrase and awakens an inherent melody born from both players together.
The rolling conversation of dried gourds and hollowed log drums that drives the tempo forward and grounds the collective sound.
Every sound begins with the instrument itself.
Wood • Gourd • Hide • Reed • Forged Steel • Voice
No electric instrumentation is used to manufacture the experience. The instruments are the sound.
Hand-tuned steel keys vibrating inside dried deze gourds, framed by the warm shimmer of machachara beads.
Drums carved from fallen mutiti logs and crowned with cow and goat hide, heat-tuned over open embers for deep, physical resonance.
Selected gourds filled with natural river seeds, creating a rolling rhythm that carries the musicians forward and sets the room in motion.
At the centre of Mazana Movement is Sekuru Evason Gore — master musician, teacher, storyteller and elder.
His musical life stretches across generations of Zimbabwean music. His vocabulary reaches far beyond a single instrument.
He does not simply perform the tradition. He carries it.
Mbira Dzavadzimu • Lead Voice • Repertoire Custodian
"The mbira is not an object you play; it is a conversation that was started long before you arrived."
Mazana Movement brings together instrumentalists, vocalists, producers and sound specialists whose combined sound is greater than the sum of its parts.
You don't need to know the history before you hear it. Press play.
Dual mbira interlocking in Nyamaropa tuning with resonant calabash overtones and unhurried acoustic power.
An acoustic journey spanning decades of lived musical transmission, live ceremonial takes, and vocal poetry.
Mazana Movement performs concerts, festival stages, cultural programmes, masterclasses and traditional ceremonial gatherings worldwide.
Eastlea South Community Grounds — Harare, Zimbabwe
Annual gathering celebrating mbira music and Shona cultural arts, led by Sekuru Gore & Mazana Movement.
The sound opens a door. Behind it is a larger world of language, memory, history, spirituality, family, land and identity. The Mazana Journal explores that world.
The Forty-Two Laws Given to Hungwe — as told by Mbuya Manyoni
This was before the hut, before thatch, before the kraal wall. A man with no sin is called into the deepest cave of the hills and given forty-two laws — as told by Mbuya Manyoni.
Zezuru Cosmology, Spirit Possession, and the Architecture of the Cosmos
Life never ends; the dead interact and influence the living. An ethnographic exploration of the Zezuru spiritual hierarchy—from family ancestors and clan rain spirits to the ultimate source, Mwari.
Forging, Tuning, and the Sacred Geometry of the Mbira Dzavadzimu
A mbira is not merely carved wood and hammered wire; it is a resonant archive forged from bloodwood and mountain copper. How the 48-pulse hocket and sacred tuning systems bridge the living and the dead.
How to Play, Tune, and Interlock the Mbira Dzavadzimu
The mbira is not merely an instrument; it is an interlocutor between the living and the ancestors. An exhaustive field guide to its 29 keys, the hocketing rhythm of kushaura and kutsinhira, and the delicate art of the tack hammer.
Thirty-seven mitupo in the Mazana artwork — on a tee, a hoodie, or embroidered at the chest. Find your totem and see how it comes.
Opening soon Fish Eagle
T-shirt · Hoodie · Embroidered hoodie · Large embroidered hoodie · Mug
Opening soon Lion
T-shirt · Hoodie · Embroidered hoodie · Large embroidered hoodie · Mug
Opening soon Elephant
T-shirt · Hoodie · Embroidered hoodie · Large embroidered hoodie · Mug
Opening soon Crocodile
T-shirt · Hoodie · Embroidered hoodie · Large embroidered hoodie · Mug
"Come closer. Listen."
