'Sweet as Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa' - THIS COMP OMG!

Sorry, this one: https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/track/kadeed-badanaa-naftaydani-my-life-is-full-of-tribulations

the new Dur Dur Band volumes on Analog Africa are A++++ by the way.

I started listening to Ostinato's recentish comp of Sudanese music, Two Niles to Sing a Melody, this morning that should be of interest here (though it's not as delirium-inducing as Broken Dates): https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-niles-to-sing-a-melody-the-violins-synths-of-sudan

thanks rob, gonna check it

I love this, this stuff is like catnip to me. My interest was piqued immediately because the album Abdel Aziz El Mubarak cut in London in 1987 was a big favorite of mine back in the day. But where his track on this comp is slow, that album was very much uptempo (wedding party material, I guess). The Kamal Tarbas, Zaidan Ibrahim and Taj Makki tracks here are in a similar wheelhouse, but with a less cleanly/clearly recorded sound.

That album is on Spotify too (along with two others of his that I’m not familiar with). I can’t recommend it enough, such a feel-good (and elegant!) record:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3GSWzFJZ0lgJAFrNOv9l8d?si=VYMdW6bLT0-lWyPr_GK5Iw
(note the slightly different transliterations of his name: “Abdel Aziz *El* Mubarak” vs “Abdel (El) Aziz *Al* Mubarak”)

Faves on this new compilation include Saied Khalifa’s “Igd Allooli” and Abdelmoniem Ekhaldi’s “Droob Ashoag”. That last one sounds so surprisingly 80s! It’s one of the 3 (I think) tracks with synths. The Kraftwerk-al-Arabiyyah (or is it Visage?) of the “Elhabeeb Wain?” interlude is very cute. (The third one, track 14, I like a lot less).

Okay, one track from that El Mubarak album. “Tahrimni Minnak” is just so joyful-sounding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eKn65a6sEM

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2771787995_10.jpg

Fans of 'Broken Dates' take note, Analog Africa are about to release this: https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/mogadisco-dancing-mogadishu-somalia-1972-1991

...putting that Nimco Jamaac song on first was a brilliant move--as soon as I hear that synth I can't turn it off

Having never heard the Sweet Broken Dates compilation before I put it on last night and yeah holy shit at that synth! Listened to about half way through the comp and it seems all-killer-no-filler as dog latin claims it to be upthread.

There should be more talk about this amazing compilation. I've been listening to it every morning and I never get tired of it. What's Sweet Broken Dreams?

Oh, duh, I didn't see the previous 22 posts. Off to buy this, then

That Mogadisco comp upthread is decent too. Dur Dur Band would have been as big as the Beatles if the world were a fair place