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Pictures put in on New Year’s Eve to remember the folks in africa

Agnieszka — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:25:07 +0000

Journey in the Nyanza region on March 11th, where we met with the nyatiti player Okumo Korengo :

The People at Ogoya Nengo’s Village:

Best wishes for the new year 2010 to all of you !!

Ogoya Nengo Long Version

Agnieszka — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:40:46 +0000

Here comes a longer version of Ogoya Nengo. After listening to her takes over and over again and again, I am still so impressed by her singing. What a voice !
For the middle section of the song I used the recordings we have done before we left the village. Everybody was dancing and singing. The husband of Ogoya played the solo drum accompanied by an amazing percussion trio. Watch the video, Agnieszka did on this unique day.
http://www.barabara.fm/videoblog/music/Ogoya24_8.mp3 ^{ogoya nengo longer version}

Ogoya Nengo Video

Agnieszka — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:21:51 +0000

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 Ogoya’s village. It ended up with a big party featuring Ogoya’s husband in a traditional dress…

Listen what Sven did with this material below.

Ogoya Nengo

Agnieszka — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:32:24 +0000

During the last days I worked out a track-idea based on the recordings we did on march 11th in the small village of the female singer Ogoya Nengo.
After an incredible welcome-ceremony, Ogoya asked us to enter her home. In a split second the atmosphere changed totally. The music stopped and everybody inside of the room began to pray. Solely all the cows, sheep and cocks outside didn´t change at all….
Fortunately my small recording machine was switched on during the prayer. Of course I asked somebody after the ceremony if I could use this recording one day and he said yes.
http://www.barabara.fm/videoblog/music/6-15ogoya.mp3 ^{Ogoya Nengo}

Kisumu countryside sessions

monade — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:15:34 +0000

What a day! Tabu, George, Patrick, Joseph, Agnieszka and Sven went to the country side of Kenya, very close to the Lake Victoria. Joseph is working on a research project about the history and the developement of Ohangla while Patrick is working on a film documentary about the same style.

First we met with a Nyatiti player called Joseph Oganga and everybody was truly fascinated by his playing and also by his personality. Listen to a short extract of the music, Oganda played for us.

http://barabara.fm/videoblog/music/nyatiti_oganga_110309.mp3 ^{Joseph Oganda}

Later on Oganda joined us to visit one of his good friends at Aluny Village, who is also a great Nyatiti player. His name is Okumo Korengo. Sven asked him if he could play an instrumental nyatiti-take. After the recording Sven asked him to sing to of what he had just played. He was very confused because he had never recorded an overdub before…. But it was really great!

Then we all made a short stop at the home place of the grandmother of Barack Obama. Strange place. A lot of people around her tried to make some pictures or tried to talk to for at least a minute.

In the evening we went to the home place of Ogoya. Ogoya is an 80 years old Dodo-singer. She has performed in Brazil and in France.
The act of welcoming of Ogoya and her neighborhood was amazing. Everybody was dancing, singing or playing an instrument. It was simply a huge African party.
After the welcome ceremony we were invited to Ogaya´s hut to pray.
Then we did several recordings. And all of the recordings are great! First Ogoya sang acappella.

http://www.barabara.fm/videoblog/music/ogoya_110309.mp3 ^{Ogoya Solo}

Then she was accompanied by four ladies who were all about 80 years old.
After the recordings Ogoya invited us for dinner. We ate traditional Kenyan food and drank Coca Cola…..