Experimental/Ambient instrumental - Kalimba thru FX

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"Kitty Kalimba" by Witchwire The melody comes from "Kitty Alone," a traditional children's folksong from Appalachia. The FX are many kinds of reverbs, delays/echoes, and timestretching – some using guitar pedals, some software. The kalimba comes from the mbira, a kind of 'thumb piano' traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. It was created by an ethnomusicologist who wanted to popularize/westernize the mbira in the 1950s. It's often considered a kids' instrument here.