Day 1: The very first field recording day for Singing Wells Story
…denly absolutely magic, unique, and only something Bado, from his village, with his background, with his love of his dad’s music could produce. We weren’t in LA anymore, but standing firmly in East Africa. We all agreed this was a big moment – of course, pictures don’t capture it and we will release the video/audio when we can, but here was the moment: Winyo, Bado and his dad performing together The Kids & Families This is our first village, but a…
On the eve of our very first field recording trip….. Story
…yed. Marina, Samba Mapangala: This is the song that Samba opened his piece with. He followed Ayub Ogado who played percussion throughout. There was a lot of dancing, including a drop by from Maddo: Winyo: He’s the current new star from the Ketebul stable. He sang back up for Samba and when he came on he said he was humbled by the extraordinary talent in the room. 50 years of East African music, the hand-off of one generation to the next. Massive r…
Lake Turkana Cultural Festival 2011 News
…dea of recording music at the Festival to the AMF, it seemed a perfect fit with the objectives of the Singing Wells project and the trustees were happy to approve a grant to cover the costs of travelling to the Festival with the new mobile recording equipment. The main purpose for the Festival, which is hosted by the German Embassy in Nairobi and the National Museums of Kenya, is to ‘overcome tribalism in the region and to promote peace and reconc…
More Ketebul voices…Steve reports from the field News
…r 01, and Maddo on the wheel, Winyo, Pato and I in the air conditioned car number 02, which was equipped with a GPS unit courtesy of Maddo, the chairman or as he prefers to be called “The Leader and The Guide!” The Chairman and owner of GPS 4 and half hours and 322 km later, we made a stop in Voi town for lunch. Everyone had some food apart from Tabu. I have known Tabu since 2005, and I can count the number of times I have seen him having a meal o…