Tag: Konono Nº1
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Gaspar Nali from Malawi
This seems to be doing the rounds even though originally uploaded 5 years ago via a VK Russian re-upload, it’s Gaspar Nali from Nkhata Bay in Malawi playing his ‘babatone’ self-made instrument and singing in a dialect of Chichewa a song apparently called ‘Abale Ndikum Gem’ (thank you Google Translate). If African music has a…
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RC 241: Afro-Arab Part Two – Desert Blues
Much delayed upload of the second of the Afro-Arab shows of music mostly from Sahel region, Egypt and Southern Africa. Here we go into the desert and here more of the blues/rock and downtempo songs from the Sahara and other dusty sandy places. (Photo taken in Egypt 2011, in the desert region north of Abu…
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RC 239: Afro-Arab Part One – Cellphones & Icecream
Recently I’ve been checking out what has been called Electro Chaabi (or Cha’abi/Shaaby/Cha3by/mahragan aka ‘festival music’), the new-ish underground hiphop/pop music in Egypt, which led me back to the show I planned after going to Egypt and South Africa in 2011. In fact this music wasn’t new to me, it was all over Egypt blasting…