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Aladin Abbas is a singer, oud and tabla player who was born in Egypt. He started his musical career at the age of four by singing Arabic and Egyptian songs for different singers such as Om Kalthom and Abd El Halim Hafiz and Sufi singers. Aladin has been performing folk, traditional and classical Egyptian/Arabic music ever since, performing both as a solo player and with many well known bands and musicians in Egypt and Europe. His band Aladin Dreams started to perform already in early 90's, and it has been including musicians from different countries and backgrounds. This multicultural band aims to create a bridge between east and west - using the roots of oriental and Egyptian music and coloring it with modern western elements to build a new way of playing oriental music. Aladin's compositions of Arabic rhythms have been a successful way to fit the taste of Arabic and Western audience, and its musical approach is almost magical...

Members of the band:

Aladin Abbas (oud, vocal, percussion)

Trygve Tambs-Lyche (drums)

Jørn Erik Ahlsen (Electric and acoustic guitar)

 

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Konono No. 1 combine the spirit of traditional African music with the junk instrument concept and the progressive electronic aspect of modern times. The group's full name is L'Orchestre Folklorique T.P. Konono No. 1 de Mingiedi, T.P. being translated as "all powerful." It is also a tribute to the band of the legendary Congolese musician Franco, which was called T.P.O.K. Jazz. 

 

The band was founded by Mawangu Mingiedi, a member of the Zombo or Bazombo ethnic group, whose homeland is located near the Congo border with Angola. Mingiedi was born in Angola in 1933 and moved to Kinshasa in the former Zaire in 1949, and was a longtime taxi and truck driver trying to support a large family of children. He started the band as Orchestre Tout Puissant Likembe Konono No. 1 in the mid- to late '70s. Originally they adapted Zombo ritual music played by an ensemble of horns made from elephant tusks. 

But they switched their signature instruments to the likembe, also called the mbira, kalimba, or sanza, commonly known as the metal reed thumb piano. Their first recording was on the compilation Zaire: Musiques Urbaines a Kinshasa. The first album by Konono No. 1 was recorded and produced by Vincent Kenis, who also worked with Zap Mama, Taraf de Haïdouks, and Koçani Orkestar.

 

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Joel Sebunjo & Sundiata is a perfect collaboration between Ugandan young talented musicians inspired by diverse world music traditions. One of the most sought after, world music acts in Uganda, the repertoire ranges from own compositions to Ganda folk songs supplemented with the rhythmically & melodically rocking mandingo repertory. Joel Sebunjo & Sundiata testifies the road to Pan African understanding of culture & music. 

 

Though a master of his  native endongo (bowlyre), Joel Sebunjo is also an inspired exponent of the kora who plays this west African harp as if, he were Malian or Gambian. He is truly an ambassador of jali in East Africa, hence regarded by many as the eastern griot.

Over the years, Joel Sebunjo has shared the stage with world music greats such as Miriam Makeba, Oliver Mtukudzi, Salif Keita, Didier Awadi, Etran Finatawa, Ismael Lo, cheb Khaled, El Hadji, Baba Maal and many more.

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