Zanzibara, Vol. 1 - 1905-2005: Ikhwani Safaa Music Club (2006)

«After the Ethiopiques series (follow the link for Volume 14), Buda musique launch a new collection dedicated to the Swahili popular music, especially the Taarab, played for more than an hundred years on the eastern coast of Africa. This new collection, A hundred years of Taarab in Zanzibar presents popular Swahili music from the eastern coast of Africa – Lamu, Mombasa, Tanga, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and the Comoros – with archive recordings from the 1920s-1980s supplemented by contemporary recordings of special interest. Zanzibara Vol. 1 pays a tribute to Ikhwani Safaa, Zanzibar’s (and probably Africa’s) oldest music club, celebrating its centenary in 2005.» (Calabash Music)

Also dig Zanzibara, Vol. 2. – 1965-1975: L’âge d’or du taarab de Mombasa / Golden Years of Mombasa taarab (2006)

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