David Dalle
Thursday November 28th, 2019 with David Dalle
Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu from 1972-1991 and other African musics, New Italian Jazz, Ravi Shankar, Philip Glass and more.

I am thrilled to see a lot of attention recently on an unknown history of music: that of Somalia. The civil war which engulfed Somalia in 1991 and from which it has still not recovered largely kept Somalia outside the purview of all the international music labels during the 90's and 2000's. Musically, it has been a relatively black hole compared to its neighbours Ethiopia and Kenya. Analog Africa is continuing its resurrection of a fantastic era in music from the Horn of Africa with another great release "Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu 1972-1991". This compilation features some terrific finds made during a trip to Mogadishu in 2016 by Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb. He spent several weeks digging through the enormous archive of Radio Mogadishu as well as doing his best to track down and meet the artists (several he met in the UK where many had emigrated to) and he somehow managed to decide on 12 fantastic tracks on this new compilation, showing a wide range of popular music with diverse influences from American funk, disco and Somalian traditions. We will also hear other African musics, new Italian Jazz, music from Haiti and Cuba, Ravi Shankar, Philip Glass and more.