BaraBara.fm – A Journey into the Sound of Kenya

This is an idea for the last track of the album. The track is based on a field recording I did on a hot Sunday in Takaye Village, just a stone ´s throw away from… Read the rest

This is a first try based on the great Kayamba Recordings we did in Kwale. Don t miss the video of the recording session. It s amazing to see how 8 people play the Kayamba in unison.

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Here comes a new video about the recordings we did on march 25th in Matondoni, this small island close to Lamu.
The music of the traditional Kaswida group was so different from everything else, we had seen the… Read the rest

This is a new version of the Lamu- flute track. I recorded some kind of solo handdrums in the middle part of the song. Though the track sounds different from the extracts I have already posted, I hope, that you… Read the rest

On march 22nd I recorded a flute player in Lamu . Last week I played some simple beats on two different tamobourin drums, which I bought in Kenya, on top of the original recordings.
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On march 22nd Mbui and Mbutch invited us to meet their great band in a small village very close to Malindi. First we had to drink a glass of self made coconut schnapps (video)
Then Mbui, his father Mwatela… Read the rest

First Video from March 22nd where we visited the Cultural Center of Mbui’s. There we started the music session with blessing the ancestors by giving them some of the much-loved coconut schnapps, which we then had to drink by… Read the rest

Again we had to get up very early in the morning. We went to a very small village, very close to Kwale . We met with a traditional sengenya group. One… Read the rest

We began the day with a boat trip to the other side of the Lamu Island: MatondoniIt took us half an hour during which we could… Read the rest

Before we had to go to Malindi airport we took a cab to the small Takaye Village where we had spent a few days before. We said “Kwaheri” to everybody and gave them a small present: A small barrel organ… Read the rest