James Isabirye and Tabu Osusa Discuss East African Music
Tabu and James compare notes on why East African music remains so threatened…
Tabu and James compare notes on why East African music remains so threatened…
The story of how Singing Wells started…. After two years of planning, the Singing Wells project was launched in March 2011 with our first field visit to Malindi to record the music of the Mijikenda. So, how did Tabu Osusa, one of Kenya’s most successful record producers end up in a remote Kenyan village, teamed…
Ayub Ogada features in the Diamond Jubilee song but he also performed in a global song for Singing Wells produced by Abubilla Music.
Just received this lovely email from Janet Topp Fargion at the British Library in support of Singing Wells…..
Paul Kelemba (Maddo), Chairman of Ketebul Music, reporting back from the pilot programme….. When Tabu Osusa and I at Ketebul Music, along with our backers at Ford Foundation, set out to document Kenyan music genres from mid last century and offer them in easy to read, listen and view mediums to today’s audiences, young and…
In this blog, Steve Kivutia, Project Manager for Singing Wells, gives us his reflections of the March Pilot. We’ve added pictures and more importantly sound samples to his reviews, so well worth a listen! We are back in Nairobi after a week in the field recording material for the pilot phase of the…
The Ketebul Music team is critical to supporting the Singing Wells project and proved their extraordinary capabilities during our March Pilot. Here’s the team: Tabu Osusa, Founder of Ketebul Music, on the Board of Singing Wells: Paul Kelemba (Maddo): The Chairman of Ketebul Music will help with all the media aspects of Singging…
Here’s a short video, introduced by Tabu Osusa, to give you an insight into what Ketebul stands for and what they are trying to achieve. Click to watch Ketebul video