Luo Roots - musical currents from western Kenya

neo-traditional Benga collection from the early nineties
focusing on Kapere Jazz Band and their collaborations with the nyatiti legend  Ogwang Lelo K' Okoth
and  with Paddy J Onono under the name of  Orchestra Nyanza Success
a certain success...

Kapere Jazz Band : William Owidi Jakapere, orutu (vièle), singer 

Polycap Otieno Ofuo, ogengo, singer

Nathaniel Ohindo, ariaga (bottle of Fanta), singer

John Ouma, nyangile, singer

Michael Owiti, singer.
Orchestra Nyanza Success : Paddy J Onono, guitare, singer

William Owidi "Jakapere", orutu ; John Ouma, nyangi le. 
Ogwang Lelo K' Okoth : Nyatiti

01-Kapere Jazz Band-Jadiyana Mageno

02-Ogwang Lelo Okoth-Jacob Omolo

03-Kapere Jazz Band-Nath Oindo

04-Kapere Jazz Band-Lando Nyajomere

05-Kapere Jazz Band-Amagy Lando

06-Kapere Jazz Band-Tuni Nyamwalo

07-Ogwang Lelo Okoth-John Wanga

08-Kapere Jazz Band-Samwel Adina

09-Kapere Jazz Band-Amisi Jamoko

10-Kapere Jazz Band-Akinyi Nyagi Essy

11-Paddy J Onono-Lynette

Roots and currents

Lucas Wamiya

                            Pure Luo nyatiti 
                        from Lucas Wamiya
                    for the next 32  joyful minutes

Songs of praise

Hukwe Ubi Zawose & Werema Masiaga Chacha

That voice still twists and ululates and induces tears in listeners;
 it is still tragic and hopeful all at once;
 it is still the voice of 120 Tanzanian tribes,
 uniting into one living, breathing whole.  

                                                                         Matt Ozga

Hukwe Ubi Zawose

and
 Werema Masiaga Chacha

in
 Wagogo and Kuria Songs

Come my child and listen to me well.
Oh, let’s go together through the whole world,
Oh, let’s go together everywhere in Africa
 Let’s all follow light and peace together

                                                                                             Dunia 



 

Chants Wagogo 1

 Wagogo

songs of the Wagogo children pdf

 

Chants 

Les Frères Cissé

our annual dose of the always amazing
Frères Cissé


 Festival

check also here and here

Molobaly Traoré

Child of Macina and high priestess of the Niono cercle

she will always  be remembered over Mali and beyond 

as the singer of the farmers,the humble laborers  of the land

who know well that soil and  water are more precious than oil and gold.

volume 2

Fernando Sofia Rosa

Son of Elisio Sofia Rosa and Marquinha Rosa, Fernando Sofia Rosa was born in Ambriz, Bengo province, and lived in Samba neighborhood in Luanda. In 1963, he joined the Ngongo Theatrical group, founded by José de Oliveira Fontes Pereira. With the group participated in a tour to Portugal, where they recorded a program for television.The recordings of Sofia Rosa, started in 1970 for the label of Valentim de Carvalho, and he was accompanied by the ensembles "Os Corvos", "Os Astros" and "Ngoma jazz".
 Sofia Rosa was one of the best creators and interpreters of music in the Kimbundu national language, translating the pulse of  poor people's life , into song. The songs of Sofia Rosa fundamentally address
 female beauty , homesickness, God, criminality, and social conflicts of the everyday life of the musseques.
He moved to Lobito in 1973. When in November 1975 the Unita forces took the town, Sofia Rosa, who had never concealed his sympathies for the MPLA, was murdered, probably by Savimbi's troups.

 A significant part of the work of Sofia Rosa was reissued on the cd "Memórias" in 2006, an edition of the program "Poeira no Quintal", of the National Radio of Angola,that brings together  his songs: "Ngala Ny Gienda", "Ngolo Binga Kuá Nzambi "" Maria Di Pambala "," Ngala Ny Nela Ya Xiquelela "," Issuma "," Kamba Uaia ", accompanied by the ensemble" Os Corvos "," Muku Tunda "and" Longo Long Logiami "with Ngoma Jazz. Finally, the recordings of "Kalumba", "Nguexile Mutunda Mu Sambila", "Kumulundo", "Imbua iolo Boza", "Makuanhadi ya mivu" and "Manhinga mami" had "Os Astros", as accompanying support.

 Memórias