Kou Keri Kou

Tongo

http://www.okayafrica.com/sudan-sounds-mixtape-ostinato-records/

Take a sail down the Blue and White Nile as they pass through Khartoum, carrying with them an ancient history and a never-ending stream of poems and songs. Immerse in the endlessly gorgeous violin and accordion driven orchestral music of 1970’s Khartoum, and the synthesizer music of the late 1980s and early 1990s. 

We’re going to bring the enchanting violin harmonies, haunting synthesizer melodies, and relentless tum-tum rhythms of Khartoum’s golden cultural era, which captured the hearts and minds of post-colonial Africa and the Middle East, to the world later this year, fully remastered and licensed. 

As always, some of these songs will be included in the final cut. Enjoy!

Selected by Vik Sohonie & Nicolas Sheikholeslami (Caykh) 
Mastered & Mixed by Nicolas Sheikholeslami

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Sudanese Sounds from Khartoum & Omdurman

Interpretado y arreglado por CLAN CAIMAN:
Emilio Haro...................kalimbafón
Gonzalo Córdoba.........guitarra barítono
Diego Voloschín...........percusión
Facundo Gomez...........guitarrra eléctrica
Claudio Iuliano.............bajo

Compuesto, producido y mezclado por Emilio Haro en Radiaciones Armónicas
Grabado por Feco Escofet en Mawi
Masterizado por Takuto Kuratani en Ruv Bytes (Osaka, Japon)

Portada por Ian Kornfeld

Caravana

Compilation "B" // Track 16: "Wer klopft da? War da was? Hast Du das auch gehört? Ja jetzt höre ich es auch, denn Sam Yumac ist zur Tür hereingekommen und tanzt mit wildem Hüftschwung zu einer Musik, die klingt, als würde jemand mit einem Cembalo und Jukebox Synthie eine afrikanische Palmwine Party feiern, deren Gastgeber nur Joe Meek, S.E. Rogie und Dracula höchstpersönlich sein können.
Zum Abschied wird dann wieder an die Tür geklopft, bis alle weg sind." – Murena Murena

▶︎▶︎ CS/CUT02: J.G.G. "Irrlichter" 7" single (June '18)◀︎◀︎

photography (c) Laura V.

J.G.G. – Sam Yumac

"I call Mohammed Wardi "The Last King of Nubia." He is as ancient as civilization, the pharaohs, and the palm trees.

In West Africa, he sang in the stadium of Yaoundé to 60,000 people. They only spoke French, they didn't even speak Arabic, they didn't even know what was he singing. They came to his concert because they loved Wardi.

One time a guy from Mali came to me on foot because he didn't have enough money. He told me that he wanted to see Mohammed Wardi. I said, "Ok, Mohammed Wardi is not here, he's in Egypt, why do you want to meet him?"

He said, "I want to take a picture with him, and I want him to give me a cassette because I want to marry a girl, and the girl's father didn't want me, and he gave me very, very hard conditions: that if I go and meet Mohammed Wardi and bring his signature and his voice and a picture, then I will give you my daughter."

I gave him my father's number in Cairo. He took the train 'til Halfa, then the boat 'til Egypt and he found my father and took a picture with him. My father then gave him a plane ticket, and he went back home and got married. This is a person who doesn't even know Arabic. He came from Mali, traveling for three months on foot. My father was loved in West Africa, East Africa, and the middle of Africa.

In 1997, in exile, he released a cassette called Al Mursal (The Messenger). It was a song that he sang first in 1974. Sudan went crazy. This was the highest selling Sudanese album ever, until now, because he was the singer of the Sudanese people—the left and the right, the educated and the illiterate, the laborer, the farmer, everybody."

-- Abdulwahab Wardi, son of Mohammed Wardi

Two Niles to Sing a Melody: The Violins & Synths of Sudan

Mohammed Wardi - Al Mursal (The Messenger)

from CS021: GROTTO TERRAZZA »Stumpfer Gegenstand«
OUT on 15.06.2019 in a cooperation /w @mapledeathrecords.
https://cutsurface.bandcamp.com/album/stumpfer-gegenstand

"Stumpfer Gegenstand" (Blunt Object) is Grotto Terrazza's musical debut for CUT SURFACE & Maple Death, a beautiful intimate album of translucent dark beat poetry, that flickers between rhythmical murder ballads, Neue Deutsche Welle, the early experiments of Palais Schaumburg and the industrial malaise of Cabaret Voltaire.

Tongo

Kou Keri Kou

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