The Rough Guide to the Music of SudanWorld Music Network RGNET 1152 CD, 2005
01. Rasha - Aguis Mahasnik Biman
02. Abdel Karim El Kabli - Kabbas
03. Emmanuel Jal - Gua
04. Tarig Abubakar & The Afro-Nubians - Tour to Africa
05. Setona - Sawani
06. Joseph Modi - In Kadugli
07. Zar Omdurman - Chant 1
08. Abdel Aziz El Mubarak - Na-Nu Na-Nu
09. Mustafa Al Sunni - Ya Jamil Ya Mudalal
10. Mohammed Wardi - Azibni
11. Muhamed El Amin - Habibi
12. O,durman Women's Ensemble - Daloka Bet el Mal
13. Didinga Singer - Ee Wayi, Wayi, Hauya Agreement Tilaloni
14. Abdel Gadir Salim - Mal Wa Ihtagab
The Rough Guide To The Music Of Sudan is bursting with the diverse and rich music that has emerged from Africa’s largest country, from desert rhythms echoing a camel’s stride to savannah woodland harmonies. This album offers you an overview of a flourishing musical culture – including trance drumming, hip-hop, orchestral music, Arabic love songs and spicy horn sections – and incorporates influences from Egypt to Congo and from the White Nile to the Blue Nile.
The Rough Guide To The Music Of Sudan includes the diverse and rich music that has emerged from Africa's largest country, from desert rhythms echoing a camel's stride to savannah woodland harmonies. This album offers an overview of a flourishing musical culture - including trance drumming, hip-hop, orchestral music, Arabic love songs and spicy horn sections - and incorporates influences from Egypt to Congo and from the White Nile to the Blue Nile.
Home to people whose roots and cultural influences come from as far a field as Nigeria, Kenya, Turkey and Syria, this album reflects Sudan's enormous cultural diversity. A former child soldier who was adopted by British aid worker Emma McCune, Emmanuel Jal's song 'Gua' went to Number 1 in the Kenyan KTN Top 10 chart. Emmanuel is now the spokesman for the Campaign to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers and one of Africa's hottest young rappers ('from child soldier to rap superstar' Observer}. World Music Network has signed Emmanuel to Riverboat Records and he is currently recording a new album with Abdel Gadir Salim, a venerated master of northern Sudanese music. Also featured on The Rough Guide To The Music Of Sudan, Abdel Gadir Salim flavors his music with the unique rhythms and melodies of Kordofan and Darfur and both musicians hope their forthcoming collaboration will contribute to the vulnerable peace process.
Dubbed The Golden Throat', Mohammed Wardi's compositions and performances over five decades have gained him legendary status across Africa and the Middle East. Since the 1970s he has publicly defended artistic freedoms and 'Azibni' was taken from his 1994 open-air concert in Addis Ababa.
One of Sudan's great international stars, Abdel Aziz El Mubarak trained at Khartoum's famous Institute of Music and Drama. He was the first Sudanese artist to play WOMAD and 'Na-Nu Na-Nu', in the Amharic language, is a tribute to the Ethiopian people.
Abdel Karim El Kabli is regarded as one of the Old Masters, a walking repository of musical folklore who embraces both colloquial and classical styles. A traditional song first arranged by Kabli in 1973, 'Kabbas' highlights the interplay between Kabli's oud and the violins, flute and bongos.
Another magnificent ud player, Muhamed El Amin became a Sudanese folk-hero during the 1964 October revolution, in which the people overthrew the first post-independence military dictatorship. Jailed by Nimeri's regime in the 1970s, he moved to Cairo after 1989 but returned to Khartoum in 1994.
This album also features the self-taught oud playing of Mustafa Al Sunni and sparse ud from Rasha on 'Aguis Mahasnik Biman'.
Setona is one of the few singers of the gutsy women's roots or daloka music to have made it from private parties to the recording studio. A henna artist, and a warm and vivacious performer, she was visited in Egypt by the artist sometimes known as Prince.
A previously unreleased track from the Omdurman Women's Ensemble, 'Daloka Bet El Mal' is a typically impudent and saucy daloka song that reflects on Sudan's economic crises and sharia law. Recorded during a psychotherapeutic Zar session in Omdurman, 'Chant One' is another previously unreleased song. Mainly for women, Zar sessions combine days of hypnotic drumming where women can smoke, drink and act out rebellious fantasies, without having their religious piety or social respectability called into question.
The Rough Guide To The Music Of Sudan also features the Nuba saxophone-player-turned-bandleader Tarig Abubakar, a liberation song from Joseph Modi and an un-named Didinga woman singing of how weary the people are of Sudan's civil war. Although Sudan was the first country in Africa to gain independence, since its colonial history it has been split by a violent and bloody civil war. Sudan is now striving to implement a peace deal to end the continent's longest conflict.
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