BaraBara.fm – A Journey into the Sound of Kenya

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

The recording session we did at the home place of Jack Nyadundo on the 11th march was the first reording for the barabara-project at all. you can see some pictures here.
Jack Nyadundo and his young band are playing… Read the rest

Here come a fiew scenes from the session with Dodo player and singer Ogoya Nengo. It was a fun day with a lot of interesting and nice happenings such as praying, talking, eating and dancing with the people from Read the rest

March 11th was one of the most exciting days during our stay. In one day we met with Ogoya Nengo, Joseph Oganga, Owino Koyo and last but not least Okumo Korengo.
We came upon Korengo at… Read the rest

A new video snippet of our visit at Joseph Oganga’s garden, where he played Nyatiti, an instrument which reminds of a guitar. A few days ago Sven posted a new adaption (see below) of the Nyatiti Player singing on… Read the rest

10 days ago Sven began to work on the kenyan album. From today he will post some audio examples once a week. Hopefully these extracts give you an impression about the album process. Of course the mp3s are not perfectly… 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

New video originated in Kisumu city on March 10th, where Sven had a street jam session with the Orutu player Paul and his accompanist Elisha.

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