Tag: Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn Of Africa

• LABEL FEATURE: Ostinato Records – founder Vik Sohonie discusses latest Groupe RTD project and the challenges and rewards of running a label on a global mission

  

  Gathering ‘lost’ music from around the world and reissuing the work of under-exposed artists, is a difficult task. Getting beyond the global communications, licensing and digital legwork or travel can be challenging enough, but what about the role of cultural excavation and regeneration post-war? Among a range of projects across numerous nations, Ostinato Records has…

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  July 8, 2020

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  Asma Omar, Ostinato Records, Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn Of Africa, The Dancing Devils of Djibouti, Vik Sohonie

• Precious comp’ from Ostinato Records: ‘Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn Of Africa’

  Ostinato Records’ Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn Of Africa is a beautiful compilation of sacred music that charts the musical landscape of pre-war Somalia. The archive provides an audio history of Mogadishu in the 1970s and 1980s when the coastal capital was known as the ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’.…

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  September 9, 2017

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  Dur Dur Band, Faadumo Qaasim, Hibo Nuura, Iftiin, Mahmud “Jerry” Hussen, Ostinato Records, Radio Hargeisa, Sahra Dawo, Sharero, Siad Barre, Somalia, Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn Of Africa