Reflections on the pilot phase by Willie Bembe News
…id from a distance. DAY 5 The drive back to Nairobi seems shorter than the one to Malindi. Get to Nairobi and enjoy a nice Ethiopian dinner at the Habesha restaurant. Everyone is very tired so we let the big boys have their meeting at the Fairview Hotel. DAY 6 It’s our guest’s last day and we enjoy having last recording sessions with them at the studio. The “seventeen hour” song is very catchy and Jimmy is dancing all over the place as an African…
Discovering music roots with SWP News
…awn shop. And any field job with local respondents needs a “fixer”. We had one in one Deche. Interesting fellow. He made sure we got the groups we were seeking. But by late afternoon of each day, he didn’t seem quite sober to me. On our last night, he almost dragged me out of the hotel for a “final night out” – he was buying, he repeated over and over again. I have never been known to refuse an offer for good old Tusker. But I fled. Deche, don’t w…
More Ketebul voices…Steve reports from the field News
…ags with mic and instrument cables, power extension cables, 8 pairs of headphones, mic stands, boom poles, 2 Rodes NT5 mics with dead cats (no animals were harmed in the acquisition of the dead cats!), 1 shure sm58 and 1 shure sm57 mic, and 2 AKG C414 mics. Patrick, our video guy, also made it to the studio a short while after me, and Jimmy had to almost beat him off with a stick to keep him away from his (Jimmy’s) Canon 5D camera. Pato was drooli…