SHARHABIL AHMED - The King Of Sudanese Jazz LP Rock and 46 ever-undulating minutes

and 46 ever-undulating minutes

Lucy Railton renders a sublimely haunting impression of Berlin made in early Spring 2020 for our Documenting Sound series of sonic postcards from all corners of the globe

I don’t know if this is a bad thing or a good thing

a reference point might be some of the output of constellation records - indeed GYBEs norsola johnson plays on this record

faraway places

SHARHABIL AHMED - The King Of Sudanese Jazz LP Rock and 46 ever-undulating minutesContemporary Sudanese music draws a lot of influences both from Arabic musical as well as subsaharan traditions. []It is rooted in the madeeh (praising the Prophet Mohamed in song). The genre filled out into something quite irreverent in the 1930s and 1940s when haqiba music, the madeeh 's secular successor, caught on. Haqiba, a predominantly vocal art in which the musicians accompanying the lead singer use few instruments, spread like wildfire in the