Reviving live Somali music with real instruments

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

beautiful thing to witness. she is amazing musician. Maryan Mursal also came and other bands.

 

[Jjero]

i'd love to see dur dur band live too
I've been obsessed with their music this past week

 

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

i'd love to see dur dur band live too
I've been obsessed with their music this past week

they performed there too here is a little solo

 

[Zayd]

They will never give me the goosebumps I feel when I listen to Nabsiga by MM, Gacalo by Cumar dhuule, Boodhari by Cumar Dhuule, Aan damaq jacayl (qaaci version) those kinda artists will never be seen again, all these old heads don't have the excitement and energy in them.

 

[DuctTape]

This is good news.
The shitty electronic and MIDI instruments many Somali artists use nowadays are pure crap.
The sooner live instruments come back, the better.

 

[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

music brings people together

 

[Hemaal]

They will never give me the goosebumps I feel when I listen to Nabsiga by MM, Gacalo by Cumar dhuule, Boodhari by Cumar Dhuule, Aan damaq jacayl (qaaci version) those kinda artists will never be seen again, all these old heads don't have the excitement and energy in them.

Man good 'ol days. Soon 10k tapes from the hargeisa cultural centre of old Somali music will be digitized, I can't wait to relive the era when Somali music dominated east Africa

 

[Zayd]

Man good 'ol days. Soon 10k tapes from the hargeisa cultural centre of old Somali music will be digitized, I can't wait to relive the era when Somali music dominated east Africa

When will they do this? And will they clean the audio?

 

[Hemaal]

When will they do this? And will they clean the audio?

Last week, Sohonie was a speaker at the 2017 TEDx Mogadishu, where he talked about his company’s efforts to digitize a third of the 10,000-tape archive stored at the Red Sea Foundation in Somaliland—considered the largest Somali cassette tape archive of its kind anywhere in the world.

https://qz.com/970117/one-mans-mission-to-unearth-africas-lost-treasure-trove-of-music/

 

[Jjero]

Man good 'ol days. Soon 10k tapes from the hargeisa cultural centre of old Somali music will be digitized, I can't wait to relive the era when Somali music dominated east Africa

It still does
Have you seen Somali songs comment section on youtube
"Im from Eritrea and I love Somali music"
Even Ethiopians and Kenyans bop to our music, not only that, They also copied our Music