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Ketebul-Abubilla Project: The Singing Wells
Starting in July 2010, we will begin fund-raising to support Ketebul Music in its dual mission:
• To promote and support East African musical talent: we will help upgrade their studio in Nairobi, which is at the heart of the contemporary Kenyan music scene, and train recording engineers in the use of Pro Tools.
• To record music from rural Africa for the purposes of archiving and researching East Africa’s traditional cultural heritage: we will help build two mobile recording studios and spend part of the summer of 2011 travelling in Kenya supporting the recording and archiving of village music. We will also work to set up an on-going programme to make sure that the work of the two mobile studios continues.
All profits from the sale of the first two albums from the Saturday Morning Canasta Club (Six Months of Saturdays and Misery Marmalade and Other Spanish Jams) will go to support Ketebul Music. Please get involved by buying our CDs or contributing directly to the Ketebul-Abubilla music project.
A little more about Ketebul:
Ketebul Music was founded by Tabu Osusa, who’s been a key part of the East African music industry – promoter, composer and band manager – for the last 30 years. A Kenyan native, he has been actively involved in running some of the top bands in the country, including the acclaimed Orchestra Virunga and The Nairobi City Ensemble.
Together with the director of Alliance Française in Nairobi, Tabu co-chairs the steering committee of the 'Spotlight on Kenyan Music' project which seeks to discover and promote young talent, performing a blend of African music. This project is also supported by the Kenyan government through its Ministry of National Heritage and Culture.
Tabu’s interest in recording and archiving traditional music has led him to contribute to a number of projects including:
• 'Moovin 'n' Groovin', a radio series documenting the history of East African music.
• 'Muziki wa Kenya', a concert series promoting emerging Kenyan artists in collaboration with the Goethe Institute.
• 'Rumba Orphans', a documentary currently in production, on the influence of Congolese Rumba on East African music.
For more information on the origin of the name Singing Wells, check out this blog post
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