Tracks by both Bakaka Band and Dur-Dur Band make up a healthy share of “Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu (Somalia 1972-1991),” a compilation released by the eclectic Analog Africa imprint at the end of 2019. Dur-Dur Band became one of the best-known groups from a golden era of Somali music that has gone largely unheard beyond the country’s borders. Now the subject of their own standalone Analog Africa retrospective gathered from the same visit (“Dur-Dur of Somalia – Vol. “While other African countries were going down musically and culturally in the Eighties, Somalia was going up,” says Redjeb. The state-funded bands were frequently called on to provide live accompaniment to musical plays staged at the National Theater of Somalia.

Source: Ethiopian News September 17, 2020 06:00 UTC