Owiny Sigoma Band

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Wires 00:00 Tools
Harpoon Land 00:00 Tools
Nyiduonge Drums 00:00 Tools
I Made You / You Made Me 00:00 Tools
(Nairobi) Too Hot 00:00 Tools
Norbat Okelo 00:00 Tools
Nagalo Ni Piny Odag 00:00 Tools
Doyoi Nyajo Nam 00:00 Tools
Sunken Wrecks 00:00 Tools
Owiny Techno 00:00 Tools
Changaa Attack 00:00 Tools
Margaret Okudo (Dub) 00:00 Tools
Lucas Malore 00:00 Tools
Magret Aloor 00:00 Tools
Gone Thum Mana Gi Nyadhi 00:00 Tools
Yukimwi 00:00 Tools
Nabed Nade Ei Piny Ka (Rework) 00:00 Tools
Odera Lwar 00:00 Tools
Mombassa Outro 00:00 Tools
Luo Land 00:00 Tools
Jonny Ra Ha 00:00 Tools
All Together 00:00 Tools
Hera 00:00 Tools
Here On the Line 00:00 Tools
Ojoni Wopio 00:00 Tools
Owour Won Gembe 00:00 Tools
Owegi Owandho (Solo) 00:00 Tools
Fisherman's Camp, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Tech 9 00:00 Tools
Nyanza Night 00:00 Tools
Deep Kisumu Fish 00:00 Tools
Rapar Nyanza 00:00 Tools
Wires (Theo Parrish Remix) 00:00 Tools
Jah Mic 00:00 Tools
Wires - Theo Parrish Remix 00:00 Tools
Amolo Tienga 00:00 Tools
Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Remix) 00:00 Tools
Nabed Nade el Piny Ka 00:00 Tools
Wires (Theo Parrish Mix) 00:00 Tools
Jalako Onyoono Paka 00:00 Tools
Doyoi Nyajo Nam - Quantic Remix 00:00 Tools
Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Dub) MSTR 00:00 Tools
Nyiduonge Drums - Champion Remix 00:00 Tools
I Made You, You Made Me 00:00 Tools
Here On the Line - Stalker Dub 00:00 Tools
Nyiduonge Drums (Champion Remix) 00:00 Tools
Harpoon Land - Radio Edit 00:00 Tools
Yukimwi - Blludd Relations Remix 00:00 Tools
Harpoon Land (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Changaa Attack - The Invisible Remix 00:00 Tools
Doyoi Nyajo Nam - Quantic Dub 00:00 Tools
Sunken Wrecks - Pilooski Remix 00:00 Tools
Margaret Okudo - Jesse Hackett Dancehall Remix 00:00 Tools
I Made You, You Made Me - High Wolf Remix 00:00 Tools
Harpoon Land (Hello Skinny Remix) 00:00 Tools
I Made You/You Made Me 00:00 Tools
Changaa Attack - General Ludd Remix 00:00 Tools
Changaa Attack (General Ludd Remix) 00:00 Tools
Margaret Okudo (Jesse Hackett Dancehall Remix) 00:00 Tools
Owegi Owandho - Hello Skinny Remix 00:00 Tools
Vitamin C 00:00 Tools
Harpoon Land - Hello Skinny Remix 00:00 Tools
Hera (Sun Araw Remix) 00:00 Tools
Owegi Owandho (Hello Skinny Remix) 00:00 Tools
Sunken Wrecks (Pilooski Remix) 00:00 Tools
Hera (Sun Araw Remix) 00:00 Tools
Harpoon Land - Jesse Hackett's Funeral Suite Re-Version 00:00 Tools
Yukimwi (Blludd Relations Remix) 00:00 Tools
Too Hot 00:00 Tools
'Wires' 00:00 Tools
Nyiduonge Drums Champion Remix 00:00 Tools
Changaa Attack (the Invisible remix) 00:00 Tools
Owegi Owando 00:00 Tools
Harpoon Land (Jesse Hackett's Funeral Suite Re-Version) 00:00 Tools
Okudo Margaret - Dub 00:00 Tools
Owegi Owandho 00:00 Tools
Fisherman's Camp Pt 1 00:00 Tools
Owour Won Gebme 00:00 Tools
(Nairobi) Too Hot (DJ Khalab Remix) 00:00 Tools
(Nairobi) Too Hot - DJ Khalab Remix 00:00 Tools
John Ra Ha 00:00 Tools
Margaret Okudo Dub 00:00 Tools
Here On the Line (Stalker Dub) 00:00 Tools
Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Dub) 00:00 Tools
(Nairobi) Too Hot - Commentary 00:00 Tools
Nyidouonge Drums 00:00 Tools
Tafsiri Sound 12 00:00 Tools
Luo Land - Commentary 00:00 Tools
I made you you made Me 00:00 Tools
MO FIYAAAA!!! MIXTAPE 00:00 Tools
I Made You / You Made Me. 00:00 Tools
I Made You / You Made Me - Commentary 00:00 Tools
Norbat Okelo MSTR 00:00 Tools
Nagalo Ni Piny Odag MSTR 00:00 Tools
Fisherman's Camp Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Nairobi (So Hot) 00:00 Tools
Sunken Wrecks MSTR 00:00 Tools
Magret Aloor MSTR 00:00 Tools
Mombassa Outro MSTR 00:00 Tools
Lucas Malore MSTR 00:00 Tools
Odero Lwar 00:00 Tools
Jah Mic - Commentary 00:00 Tools
Ojoni Wopio - Commentary 00:00 Tools
Nyiduongue drums (champions remix) 00:00 Tools
Wires (muzjaka.ru) 00:00 Tools
Fishermans Camp, Pt. 1 - Commentary 00:00 Tools
Owour Won Gembe - Commentary 00:00 Tools
Owiny Techno MSTR 00:00 Tools
Yukimwi MSTR 00:00 Tools
Johnny Ra Ha MSTR 00:00 Tools
Nyanza Night - Commentary 00:00 Tools
Owegi Owando (Solo) 00:00 Tools
All Together MSTR 00:00 Tools
Harpoon Land MSTR 00:00 Tools
sunken wreck 00:00 Tools
Nairobi (Too Hot) (DJ Khalab Remix) 00:00 Tools
Nyidongue Drums 00:00 Tools
Odiambo Odoor Obiendo 00:00 Tools
Harpoon Land Official Video 00:00 Tools
Changaa Attack - Commentary 00:00 Tools
Tech 9 - Commentary 00:00 Tools
Amolo Tienga - Commentary 00:00 Tools
momassa outro 00:00 Tools
Margareth Okudo (Dub) 00:00 Tools
I Made You, You Made Me (Highwolf Remix) 00:00 Tools
I Made You, You Made Me (High Wolf Remix) 00:00 Tools
Nyiduonge Drums (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
1644_Wires01 00:00 Tools
Armolo Tienga 00:00 Tools
I Made You - You Made Me 00:00 Tools
Ojoni Wopio (Brownswood Records) 00:00 Tools
I Made You You Made Me 00:00 Tools
Fisherman’s Camp Pt.1 00:00 Tools
Tafsiri Sound 12" 00:00 Tools
Margaret Okudo [Dub] 00:00 Tools
Owiny Sigoma Band: Norbat Okelo 00:00 Tools
Nyidounge Drums (Champion Remix) 00:00 Tools
Doyoi Nyajo Nam [Quantic Remix] 00:00 Tools
Owiny Sigoma Band: Wires 00:00 Tools
Harpoon Land (Jesse Hackett's Funeral Suite Re-Version) [PJL] 00:00 Tools
Nairobi (City Too Hot) (DJ Khalab remix) 00:00 Tools
Nabed Nad Ei Piny Ka 00:00 Tools
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In 2009, a handful of London-based musicians travelled to Nairobi in Kenya to collaborate with local musicians there. The project was set up by Hetty Hughes and her friend Aaron Abraham, co-founders of a voluntary organisation called Art of Protest established in order to promote local musicians and rappers. Hetty and Aaron were disheartened by the way they were being sidelined and overlooked, so they set about inviting some London-based musicians to visit Nairobi and collaborate. It was a loose arrangement… there was no specific agenda other than to bring the musicians together, exchange ideas and enjoy the results. The traditional folkloric music of Kenya has not received the same global exposure as that of Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa or North Africa, for example, and one of the objectives of this project was to try and build on this. The band draw on a broad spectrum of African influences, from Fela Kuti and Tony Allen to the likes of Thomas Mapfumo and Oumou Sangare, but bar Jesse’s participation with Damon Albarn’s Africa Express, this was the first opportunity for Jesse Hackett (keys), Louis Hackett (bass), Sam Lewis (guitar), Chris Morphitis (bouzouki/guitar) and Tom Skinner (drums) to visit specifically for a musical project. The boys’ first trip to Nairobi was in January 2009 to meet and collaborate with two Kenyan musicians: Joseph Nyamungo and Charles Okoko who hail from a village up country called Owiny Sigoma. The workshop/rehearsals were a lot of fun and pretty fruitful – “They acted as a skills exchange and a way of sharing our music. We learned some of their songs and they learned some of our songs too,” explains Tom. Finding a studio that could accomodate a 7-piece live band wasn’t easy but eventually they holed up in an amazing disused factory space to record. The resulting four tracks made their way to Gilles Peterson who promptly signed the band to his Brownswood imprint and sent the boys back to Nairobi for another week-long recording session with Joseph, Charles and their extended musical family. The results are documented on the band’s forthcoming album – a collection of gloriously hypnotic Afro grooves symbolic of the true culture clash between the Luo and London. The project will finally be released on 2nd May 2011, preceded by a 12” boasting a monstrous Theo Parrish remix available exclusively via Record Store Day on 16th April 2011. The Motor City legend stripped back the melodic content to the bare essentials and built one of his trademark twisted trips in a whirlwind session with Floating Points at Eglo Studios, London. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.