We all think of names whose evocative power seems so sharp that nothing can dull it. Not even the years, quite the contrary, seem to sharpen the wire. How to explain what it is he? On anything! Nothing specific, anyway. Bookish knowledge is not the cause, experience no more. Maybe it is just a pile of assonance and dissonance, diastole and systole sound whose echo resounds in the most remote areas, or the most secret of our childhood, through what that it was able to hear and catch the rumor world.
Postcard Zanzibar
For my part, Aden, Port Said, Addis Ababa, Djibouti, Mogadishu, Patagonia, Samarkand, - so far, so close - never end making me dizzy. Geographic egotism, daydreams, exotic soul. And then there's the effect of Zanzibar, the most mysterious of all, that just feed a little more a new collection launched by Buda Musique, where triumph already formidable label series Ethiopiques , whose first two volumes Zanzibar seem to extend the spirit.
Zanzibar Rupee
How about the music we like? A good blogger (horrible word), a blog useful not fail to provide valuable information about the popular music of the Swahili coast of East Africa - Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Comoros - which is devoted this new collection . He would say three words of taarab , specify that come from Arabic, is a word that means excitement, or ecstasy, it is a genre unique to meditation and dance, a concept totally incomprehensible in the West.
Only here. I'm not a good blogger (ditto) and all this does not interest me. Or not much. Or far. I prefer to dream. What was happening in the clubs in Zanzibar throughout the last century? Which beats the girls they were trying to frighten the boys, which allowed them swaying dances they hold them for a moment - an eternity - in their arms? What interests me with music, that's it, is love, desire, wets. The rest is the rest ...
So the track ...!
- Cheo Chako sung by Rukia Ramadhani (Zanzibar 1 - Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club - 1905-2005, one hundred years of Taarab in Zanzibar - Buda Musique - 2005)
- Hofu Yako Londeo sung Mohamed Llyas (ditto )
- Dada by Matano Juma ( Zanzibar 2 - The Golden Age of Mombassa Taarab, 1965-1975 - Buda Musique - 2005)
- Kuratu Ayin by & Zein Musical Party Zuhur (ditto )
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Cellar Song - Palace Brothers - There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You - Big Cat Records - 1993
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