Thursday, February 22, 2018 We travelled to Ilesi, Khakyega to record three groups. The first was Imachina. They call themselves after the village where they live. As with many groups over the last two days, most of their songs are for processions, like weddings, funerals, bullfights or rites of passage. So they tend to play…
Now, you’ll notice that the 23rd and 25th are missing. Think driving. And then think a lot more about driving. From Mwanza to Nzali, from Nzali to Nairobi. But we don’t need to waste blog posts on driving, although we did meet every kind and wonderful Tanzanian police officer on the route. They wanted to…
The third day of our field recordings was particularly fruitful. We visited Patrice Odour Oriwo known as ‘Sewe Oriwo’ at his home in Murumba village, Sega constituency (Siaya County), who fully demonstrated the making of a nyatiti resonator. We started off by going to a nearby wood and picking a log, which was then transported…
This Field Visit to Zanzibar is all about celebrating Siti Binti Saad, the Mother of Taarab. We assembled in Nairobi on Friday the 14th of February and flew to Zanzibar on Kenya Airways on the first flight on Saturday, making our way to the Ngawala Hotel. Temperature 33 degrees centigrade. Partially cloudy. Saturday…
In 2016 we continued our recordings of music of the Royal Palaces, which we started in 2015. You can read our report on the Royal Entenga Drummers in the 2015 field report.
A final day with a reunited DDC Mlimani Park Orchestra…
