Our second day we drove into Stone Town. We recorded the first two groups at the Emerson Spice Hotel along the seaside. This hotel is an Arab style hotel, reminiscent of the rhiads in Marrakech with lots of small courtyards. In the Emerson Spice Hotel we filmed the first two groups in a…
We drove to Gikonda for an amazing afternoon with Makanyaga Abdul and his band
Day 6: On this day, we travelled by road back to Nairobi. This report lacks detailed information on several days of recording in Nairobi, because of my absence. The team’s résumé of those days’ activities is included in the form of short notes: Day 7: Recording of the making of obokano, an 8 string instrument from…
We drove back to Stone Town and the DCMA to record our first group. After we finished there we drove to Mpendae, about 20 mins from Stone Town to record the second group. From there we drove for another half an hour to Maungani to record the third group: Tarajazz – This group was…
The Pandemic slowed us down, but it couldn’t stop us. Having completed our Zanzibar trip in February 2020, The Field Visits of Singing Wells were put on hold for three years. But, we knew that our first visit when we could travel again would be Rwanda. We all arrived to Kigali on November 22, 2023…
The original concept of the Masters of the Nyatiti programme included a side segment focusing on the orutu ‐ a one‐string fiddle from the same community. Because of time limitations, this could not be done fully; yet the idea of instrument comparison remained and was reintroduced through an instrument comparison forum held on day 8…
