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Nyege Nyege Tapes will release a new album from Arsenal Mikebe, a Ugandan percussion ensemble. The band is made up of percussionists Ssentongo Moses, Dratele Epiphany, and Luyambi Vincent de Paul, and it was co-founded by Portuguese artist Jonathan Uliel Saldanha. They released and perform a heavy style of drumming interspersed with soul vocals and […]
Ugandan born Jenifa Mayanja has been deeply entrenched in deep house music since the early ’90s, and in those 20-or-so years she has cemented her reputation as an innovative and fearless ambassador for the genre’s culture and a favorite of those who follow it. Her journey began in the midwest but flourished in New York […]
Strut Records will release a new compilation compiled by Kampire, a revered East African DJ. Forging her reputation through memorable performances for Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda over the last decade, Kampire is celebrated for her sets spanning the full range of African music styles, from the ’70s and ’80s to the present day. Born […]
Ian Nnyanzi, better known as Masaka Masaka, will release a new album on Hakuna Kulala. Growing up in Uganda, Nnyanzi cut his teeth fashioning rudimentary hip-hop beats at a friend’s studio on Makindye, a hill that overlooks Kampala, Uganda’s balmy Murchison Bay, and realized that he wanted more. “Out here, everyone seems okay to listen […]
Nihiloxica, the dark electro-percussion group formed between Kampala’s Nyege Nyege Festival and the Nilotika Cultural Ensemble, has recorded a new live set from a performance at Womad Festival. In 2016, English producers Peter Jones (a.k.a pq) and Jacob Maskell-Key (a.k.a Spooky-J) travelled to Kampala to write, rehearse, and record a set of live recordings with […]
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