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The Ohangla Session

Agnieszka — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:57:05 +0000

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 a style called “Ohangla”. At the moment “Ohangla” is really the latest craze in Kisumu. It is played in all of the clubs. People dance a very hot style to the rythms and the kenyan women shake their “hips” in an uncredible flexible way: they can move their bumcheeks in every directions!
It was fun to meet Nyadundo and his band. Finally Sven had to play the main drum. Later on Nyadundo advised him to go round in circle while the rhythm had do go on. Sven failed and the crowd laughed lustily.
During the next days of our Nyanza trip together with Tabu, Patrick and George we realized that a certain kind of buoyant spirit is something that all of the people at the Nyanza region radiated even though most of them lived in an extremly poor backround.

Listen here to the track that Sven created based on the original recordings.

Six Finished Nyanza Tracks (Extracts)

Agnieszka — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:04:43 +0000

http://www.barabara.fm/videoblog/music/Ogoya-Ausschn.mp3 ^{Ogoya Nengo}
Ogoya Nengo Video

http://www.barabara.fm/videoblog/music/Nyatiti2-Ausschn.mp3 ^{Okumo Korengo}
Okumo Korengo Video

http://www.barabara.fm/videoblog/music/Koyo-Ausschn.mp3 ^{Owino Koyo}
Owino Koyo Video

http://www.barabara.fm/videoblog/music/Ohangla-Ausschn.mp3 ^{Jack Nyadundo Orchestra}
Jack Nyadundo Photos

http://www.barabara.fm/videoblog/music/Olith-Ausschn.mp3 ^{Olith Ratego}

http://www.barabara.fm/videoblog/music/Nyatiti1-Ausschn.mp3 ^{Joseph Oganga}
Joseph Oganga Video

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Ohangla Turkey

Agnieszka — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:00:14 +0000

On Thursday I began to work on the Ohangla Recordings. The introduction that you listen to is based on an atmosphere that I recorded in front of Jack Nyandundo´s house. It features an old gackling turkey, (0:12, 0:16, 0:22)
The introduction beat is played on stones. Of course it is recorded at my home place but I think it comes out of the atmosphere pretty directly and homogeneously.
http://www.barabara.fm/videoblog/music/5-31ohanglaintro.mp3 ^{Ohangla Introduction}
The days before, I primarily sifted all of the kenyan recording material. It s very hard to decide which recordings I won´t use for the album. Except for the occasional ones they are absolutely unique. Because of our experiences that we of course connect to the recordings it is difficult not to use anything.

1st recording at Kisumu

monade — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:27:42 +0000

Today we went to the home place of Jack Nyadundo (see pictures on the left) which is in the hills very close to Kisumu. Jack Nyadundo is one of the pioneeers of Ohangla, a kenyan music style that is mostly be played by a percussion band, a keyboard player and a singer. Currently Ohangla is the big thing at all of the hip clubs of Kisumu.

Listen to the music:
http://barabara.fm/videoblog/music/jack_100309.mp3 ^{Jack Nyadundo & his band}