Mogadisco : Dancing Mogadishu - Somalia 1972-1991
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PopMatters
d. 17. Sep. 2018
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Adriane Pontecorvo
d. 17. Sep. 2018
"It's hard to imagine that, not so long ago, Dur-Dur Band was almost lost to the broader musical world, obscured by time and Somali political upheaval. Ever since Awesome Tapes from Africa reissued the 1987 cassette Volume 5 back in 2013, the band has become a staple for any collector of vintage African music. Now, Analog Africa returns with 18 more tracks from the legendary 1980s group ... Of varying technical quality, the recordings are invariably full of what makes Dur-Dur Band so captivating even decades after their initial rise to fame in Mogadishu: entrancing funk, disco beats, and East African melody .. Dur-Dur Band continues to be one of the most transfixing East African pop groups of the 1980s, and this release is a stellar collection of even more gems".
Q
2018 November
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Steve Yates
2018 November
"The spiritual sounds of '80s Somalia compiled ... Recently unearthed from hissy old tapes, the Dur-Dur Band's first two albums barely made it beyond their native Mogadishu on first release in the 1980s. But their extraordinary blend of funk, jazz and elegiac, spiritual sounds of Somalia is as hypnotic as it is rawly propulsive".
fRoots
2018-2019 Winter
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Ian Anderson
2018-2019 Winter
"2018 fRoots critics poll: "Compilations, reissues and historical" winner" - "In common with, for example, Mali's famed Super Rail Band, [Dur-Dur] were a hard-working hotel band who took the international music that the guests and elites grooved to and many hours of playing had fine-tuned, used it to re-invent local folklore in local dialects, and found themselves massively popular as it resonated with a new generation. Dur-Dur's musical schooling was in funk, disco, soul and reggae, with choppy wah-wahed guitar, "green" organ and brass, but their three singers anchor everything locally. And they can do catchy as well as funkus-maximus. It's no suprise to read that "Yabaal" (Blossom) sung by Sahra Dawal was the hit off the first album, or the loping reggae-tinged "Dinleeya" (Riddie) off Volume 2. Apparently there's still a Volume 3 to come".