Various Secret Museum of Mankind East Africa cd

cd
1998/1925-48
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This volume of Pat Conte's great series focuses on Kenya, especially the port of Mombasa where cross-pollination has a long tradition & the guitar is the instrument of choice. When the fancy new technology of recording machines rolled into town & the A&R men looking for sociology studies & money making exotic noises trekked out to the countryside with their recording horns, local players immediately began hankering for whatever records they had to sell. Before long, you get Swahili and Luo imitations of appalachian string bands. Tracklisting: Wilson Laboso & Kericho Girls-Chebokian Kiyai (Kipsigis/Rift Valley, Kenya), Francis Baloye & Shangaan Band-Kumbe Siyengetile (Mozambique), Elmughani Maalim Shaban-Unguja (Zanzibar, Tanzania), Jakaliya/Zakaria Kasasa & Group-Ab' Omupiira Bebale Okusamba (Ganda/Southern Uganda), Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony & Kipsigis Men-Arap Tapartile (Kenya), Jean Bosco Mwenda-Masanga (Swahili/Kenya), Private Christopher-Lawino Iya Kar/11th Division Song/Engereza Oloyo/Ogeng Wang Ayo (Lango/Acholi/Uganda), Opondo Mugoye-Odhiambo Otieno (Luo/Kenya), Eyquel-Minim Aiakora (Ethiopia), Hamed Nasr-Ya Malaki El Bek (Sudan), Frank & His Sisters-Mwanangu Lala (Swahili/Kenya), wilfred Kiute-Aichi Na Wawee (Chaga/Tanganyika, Tanzania), Opondo Songa-Athieno Omolo (Luo/Kenya), Bekyibei Arap Mosonik-Haiya Haiya Ee (Kipsigis/Kenya), Richard Chelobani-Grace Nakhalia (Luyha/Busuku/Kenya), Onbonyo Ang Ang O-Sila Rado (Luo/Kenya), Ojwang Ramogi-Dinga (Luo/Kenya), Zoutpansberg Brothers-Hosi Yehina Masia (Mozambique), Joseph H.M. Witts-Joyce Flora Radudm (Luo/Kenya), Chikha Bent Doula-Farekna Gasr-El H Mam (Baktashi/Sudan), Baiyani Medureki-Osingolio Landoiya (Arusha/Tanganyika, Tanzania), Kisumu String Band-Wanyanga Jaraha (Swahili/Kenya), Anonymous Tigrai-Humming Song (Ethiopia), Anonymous Dankeles-Kasso (Somalia), Salim Chapa & Group-Kingi Georgi Tumpe Salama (Swahili/Tanganyika, Tanzania).