#Nyatiti

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MGANGA MKUU OFFICIAL VIDEO by MAKADEM

#nyatiti #Youtube

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One on One with Mak Adem The Nyatiti Man

Makadem is one of Kenya’s most talented Afro fusion artist. He is popularly known as the Nyatiti man, but some still remember him from the good ol’ days when he was popularly known as the Ohangla man. Right after high school, he started performing music and since then he’s produced multiple albums full of contemporary compositions that celebrate the energy and lively spirit of Kenya. His music…

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#African Blink #afro benga #afrofusion music #Baaba maal #Barack Obama #Burna Boy #Cannes 2012 film festival #Glen Washington #Kenya #Koffi Olomide #kuona Arts studios #Mak Adem #Nyatiti jazz #Nyatiti man #nyatiti tronik #obama be thy name #Salif Keita #Seun kuti #Tabu Osusa

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Random MBS Music Headcannons!

Kate has perfect pitch (for those that don't know, that's when you're able to tell what note something is just by hearing it!) She loves listening to different birds singing and then telling everyone what the notes are.

Everyone thinks Constance also has perfect pitch, but it's really her psychic/pattern-recognizing abilities. Or maybe she also has perfect pitch, who knows!

Milligan used to play the fiddle before he was brainswept. When he returned to the farmhouse with Kate, he found the old fiddle in the attic. He was a little rusty when he first picked it back up again, but it came back to him faster than he expected.

There is a harpsichord somewhere in Mr. Benedict's house. It's filled with books, but Sticky moves them back to the bookshelves and fixes the harpsichord up again.

SQ is learning to play piano and sometimes plays duets with Mr. Benedict (this one credit to @sqenthusiast, I love it and it will NOT leave my head <3)

Reynie and Miss Perumal also play the piano and sing together. Sometimes Mrs Perumal (her mother) joins in.

Rhonda knows how to play the harp!

Nicholas, Milligan, Rhonda, Reynie, and Sticky love going to old tiny music shops to look for old records and obscure/vintage sheet music. They also love collecting and learning to play traditional instruments! Their favorite instruments they've found (and are learning to play) are the sarangi, the pūtōrino, the pipa, and the nyatiti.

Before the Sender started sending his men after them, the four adults used to go to the local tavern/pub together every Friday to watch different bands play live

Show Constance has a heavy metal phase

Riddle of Ages Constance listens to nightcore

Martina listens to The Rock's verse on Face Off on loop before tetherball matches

Number Two takes karaoke night VERY seriously. She can't hold a note to save her life but she definitely is the most passionate/competitive about it.

Feel free to add on!

#the mysterious benedict society #tmbs #kate wetherall #constance contraire #reynie muldoon #sticky washington #nicholas benedict #milligan wetherall #rhonda kazembe #number two #sq pedalian #martina crowe #mysterious benedict society

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Dust Volume Nine, Number 10 (Part Two)

Ogala Opot and his red-hot nyatiti

Well, all right then, Tumblr has decided we only get 10 audio clips per post, and audio is kind of what we do, so...two posts! (First one here.) Enjoy.

Earth — Earth 2.23 Special Lower Frequency Mix (Sub Pop)

Earth 2.23 Special Lower Frequency Mix is a collection of five remixes that accompanies Sub Pop’s anniversary reissue of Earth’s magisterial 1993 debut Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version. The personnel on Earth 2.23 includes Justin K Broaderick (Godflesh, Jesu), who you might have guessed would have an affinity for the band’s work, as well as two contributions from a previous collaborator The Bug, aka Kevin Richard Martin, but the collection also shows the reach the band’s sound has into both less and differently heavy spaces with, respectively, an appearance each by Built to Spill’s Brett Nelson and the grime artist Flowdan. While Broaderick’s melodic, crunching take on “Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine” is the highlight here, Netson’s murkier, more strictly droning version of the same song and Martin’s propulsive, Flowdan-featuring abbreviation of “Seven Angels” —here simply “Angels” — demonstrate just how far Earth’s musical lineage branches.

Alex Johnson

Angelika Niescier / Tomeka Reid / Savannah Harris — Beyond Dragons (Intakt)

With its boldly exposed structures, rough textures, and load-bearing elements, alto saxophonist Angelika Niescier’s music is like a skyscraper under construction. Nothing is covered up, and you can tell exactly how it fits together. In settings like this, there’s no hiding, so the choice of musicians is key. Niescier has chosen well. Cellist Tomeka Reid has a simpatico orientation towards forms that are complex, yet economical, and her strong classical foundation brings out the music’s chamber dynamics. Savannah Harris treats drumming as a martial art, which is to say that her playing is strategic, disciplined, and quite capable of laying you out.

Bill Meyer

Parish / Potter — On And Off (Null Zøne)

Shane Parish (Ahleuchatistas, etc.) and Michael Potter (The Electric Nature, etc.) are hardly an obvious duo.  Parish is a restless explorer with fearsome chops; Potter spreads heavy sounds around like a mason distributing bricks and mortar. But they’re both guitarists, improvisers and Athens GA residents, so why not take a joint dive into the deep and see what comes up? In the case of this tape, a plausible melding of aesthetics that are allowed to churn into oneness, one track per side. While one is electric and the other acoustic, that’s not really what registers; rather, it’s the way the two musicians make stillness out of motion, stirring spidery patterns and slow magma into a rotating swirl of buzz and stutter. Turns out there’s still something in that water down there.

Bill Meyer

Soft Punch — Above Water (Bad Friend)

Soft Punch is the solo project of DC’s Rye Thomas, a one-time touring member of Pash and Tereu Tereu, laid low by illness and now unable to travel. That all sounds like a bummer, and it probably is, but the album, Above Water, is an unexpected joy, beginning in the Akron Family-esque choral surge “Let’s Begin” and going all the way through to the Maps-like wistful, but crescendoing, electronics of “Now’s the Time.” Pay special attention to “My Aim Is True,” whose hubris in name-checking Elvis Costello’s classic album pays off in perfect, tremulous lyricism. Thomas sings from inside a magic, glittering cavern, an unreal place where the world’s hurts can be contemplated without damage, and both the hurt and the solace are beautiful. “Here Comes the Chorus” is spikier and full of rhythmic spine, redolent of Wolf Parade at its indie-ruling peak, while “Still Songs” flutters baroquely, elaborately against swathes of strings, like Jeremy Enigk’s Return of the Frog Queen. These are all pretty heavy references but let them stand. This is the good stuff.

Jennifer Kelly

Various Artists — Thum Nyatiti: Recordings from Western Kenya, 1930​-​1970 (Dagoretti)

This new compilation gathers 16 archival cuts that feature masters of the nyatiti, an eight-string lyre found in Western Kenya. The instrument has a distinctive sharp, percussive tone to it, sounding somewhere between a marimba and a banjo as it pursues hypnotic, repetitive patterns of quick-tempo’d picking. It is played with minimal accompaniment, usually a droning, blues-adjacent vocal line, sometimes percussion, but the main element is the picking. Dr. Pete Larson, who runs Dagoretti Records, sometimes plays the nyatiti himself; his curator on this project, Michael Robertson, has selected these historic recordings with considerable knowledge and care. Two cuts come from Ogola Opot, widely considered the father of the style. He cuts through decades of static to deliver “Onyango Wasera,” a track that is somehow both sprightly and spiritual, then returns with the more subdued “Ginaa,” rhythmic but with a melancholy air. Other well-known players—Captain Oluoch, Opondo Mugoye and Okelo Mugubit—are represented as well. Captain Oluoch’s “Aduor” is rough and impassioned, the vocal more of a shout than a croon, and very powerful. As you might expect, nyatiti playing is primarily a live art, common at weddings, funerals and other celebrations about the Luo people. These recordings were made by colonizers, British and Indian entrepreneur, seeking to document a disappearing art. This collection continues their work, extending these spare and haunting songs to a still wider audience.

Jennifer Kelly

Scott Yoder — Wither on Hollywood & Vine (Cruisin’)

Glam rock isn’t as much of a thing as it used to be, but Scott Yoder is bucking the trend, decked out in eyeliner, capes and leather. His latest album Wither on Hollywood & Vine hazards big, tone-bending guitar chords, reeling melodies and a taste for the dramatic. “Sugar on Your Lips,” with its keening, 1960s-style organ surge, its slow climaxing chorus and its florid vocal style recalls all the young dudes and their low-sparking, high heeled heyday. “Silver Screen Starlet” dips into the blues, a bent brooding boogie lurching into view, while “Gold in the Hills,” maybe the disc’s best, blows out an acoustic country rock song into day-glo colors. Restraint is overrated. Bring on the excess.

Jennifer Kelly

#dusted magazine #dust #scott yoder #soft punch #dagoretti records #shane parish #michael potter #jennifer kelly #bill meyer #Angelika Niescier #tomeka reid #savannah harris #Bandcamp #earth #alex johnson

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Name: Sai Rahn Fitzroy Color: Caramel #65350f Symbol: Defaced Oubilette Strife Specibus: chainsawkind Handle: arsenicCatharsis Animal: cobra Pronouns: cae/caer/caers/caerself and she/her and ge/ger/ges/gers/gerself Age: 18 Birthday: 157th day of the year Sexuality: lesbian Interests: soccer and esports Dream Moon: prospit Classpect: Sylph of Life Land: Land of Rays and Shimmer, an agreeable place, with fragile Cuban Crocodile consorts. It is a place full of casettes and oceans of mirrors. Hemera slumbers. Instrument: nyatiti

#IFTTT #homestuck #oc generator #homestuck kid

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Top Beatport Best New House: December

- Artists: Beatport DATE CREATED: 2023-12-02 GENRES: Deep House, House Tracklist : 1. Soulidan, Bjazz11 - Flight 0380(Original Mix) 2. Marc Cotterell - Take You For A Ride(Mike Millrain Remix) 3. F.R.E.D.Y. - La Danzamania(Original Mix) 4. Ion Vulcan - Don't Want Ya Man(Original Mix) 5. Dutchican Soul - You Bring Joy(Extended Mix) 6. Jay Vegas - Break Ya Down(Mark Knight Remix) 7. Etur Usheo - Blockade(Original Mix) 8. Jihell - Angels(Original Mix) 9. Ageless, Vhelade - Extasy(Extended Mix) 10. Step, MCW - One Leg On The Ceiling...Nightstand(Vocal Safe Sex Mix) 11. CEV's - Mind Expansion(Original Mix) 12. Makadem, Ghedi, Dawit Asfaha - Obon'go Bless Me feat. Nyatiti(Rework) 13. Warp - Bodywork(Original Mix) 14. Richard Les Crees - Even If I Could(Original Mix) 15. Processing Vessel - Get My Groove On(Eugene Glasgow Remix) 16. Brine - Got Groove(Original Mix) 17. DJ Matt Black - Sweat!(Original Mix) 18. Antoine Davila - Lancelot(Original Mix) 19. Read the full article

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Top Beatport Best New House: December

- Artists: Beatport DATE CREATED: 2023-12-02 GENRES: Deep House, House Tracklist : 1. Soulidan, Bjazz11 - Flight 0380(Original Mix) 2. Marc Cotterell - Take You For A Ride(Mike Millrain Remix) 3. F.R.E.D.Y. - La Danzamania(Original Mix) 4. Ion Vulcan - Don't Want Ya Man(Original Mix) 5. Dutchican Soul - You Bring Joy(Extended Mix) 6. Jay Vegas - Break Ya Down(Mark Knight Remix) 7. Etur Usheo - Blockade(Original Mix) 8. Jihell - Angels(Original Mix) 9. Ageless, Vhelade - Extasy(Extended Mix) 10. Step, MCW - One Leg On The Ceiling...Nightstand(Vocal Safe Sex Mix) 11. CEV's - Mind Expansion(Original Mix) 12. Makadem, Ghedi, Dawit Asfaha - Obon'go Bless Me feat. Nyatiti(Rework) 13. Warp - Bodywork(Original Mix) 14. Richard Les Crees - Even If I Could(Original Mix) 15. Processing Vessel - Get My Groove On(Eugene Glasgow Remix) 16. Brine - Got Groove(Original Mix) 17. DJ Matt Black - Sweat!(Original Mix) 18. Antoine Davila - Lancelot(Original Mix) 19. Read the full article

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Pith 152: Ayub Ogada

Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal) Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2023/03/07 Ayub Ogada: A nyatiti life, play a song, community can sing along, give some of your life; “so, eventually, I must die”. See “Kenya”. License In-Sight Publishing by Scott Douglas Jacobsen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0…

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👋🏾 Hello, I return with a short story i wrote about my Warrior of Light, that was inspired by the nyatiti, and the song “Kothbiro” by Ayub Ogada. If you’ve got a moment, I would be so grateful if you could check it out! 🥺♥️

There is a url for the song in my notes section at the top!

#ff14 #ffxiv #ff xiv #writing #fanfic writer #final fantasy 14 #warrior of light #WoLs #writers of color

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Anyango / Ogwang

#anyango #nyatiti #kenya #japan #music #love #happy #nature #breath #video

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Another crossover nobody ask for, this idea was stuck in my mind for months: Danny Phantom x Dungeons & Dragons

Feat Lady Raveena, The Merry Mister Tuck, and Danny...McFreakin-whatever (aka Danny Fenton but with a dog)

Inspired by a fic The redemption of Vlad Masters, from terrifying villain to drunk wine uncle by TheLadySyk0

And because it's remind me of college and my own D&D memories ⚔️

#danny phantom #danny fenton #sam manson #tucker foley #cujo #gally draws #gift art #i can’t draw dogs to save my life #sam don’t you know a scythe is the worst weapon irl ? #i wanted to challenge me and now i'm dead #tucker was the hardest #and i wanted to do something more original than the classic bard #since he is more experienced in d&d than the two others dumbass #his instrument is called a nyatiti #but it was interesting to learn more about color theory #and shape #and quadrupled animal #worth it #but i'm dead #did it a month ago it's my last drawing #still full time on the comic project

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MATATA ‘INDEPENDENCE’

Matata (which means “trouble” in Swahili) was an African funk band who took nightclubs by storm and jammed with some of the biggest giants in soul, jazz and Latin music. The band had its roots in the Congo although it formed in Kenya in the mid-sixties. Matata was based around the famous ‘Starlight Club’ in Nairobi. The group retained elements of traditional music by incorporating instruments such as the ‘ngoma’ (a large drum) and an eight stringed guitar-harp called the ‘nyatiti’…this brought something different to their style and made for a unique sound. Each of the songwriters sang lead in their native tongues and this meant they used vocals in three African languages (next to the songs sung in English). As the sixties drew to an end Matata (sometimes also known as ‘Air Fiesta Matata’) were regulars on Kenyan television and enjoyed a national following.

In 1971 when the BBC held a competition to find the best band in Africa, Matata submitted a song and came in first. They were sent to visit London, performed at the BBC and stayed around to do some gigs (after years of playing at the ‘Starlight Club’ the band was tight and well-rehearsed). The timing was perfect because there was a serious cross-fertilisation taking place between musicians from many different genres and nationalities…and this brought such vibrancy to cultural life in the capital. Matata arrived in London just as Assagai and Osibisa – groups led by African musicians who also played a fusion of styles – released their debut albums, paving the way for their peers.

The band signed a two-album deal with the UK-based label President Records (who would go on to release Matata’s ‘Air Fiesta’ in 1972 & ‘Independence’ in 1974). Several singles also came out of this and Matata scored hits in the Netherlands, Belgium and France. With a wealth of material and a dynamic live act to its name they would play packed gigs every night. The group was a visual, as well as musical feast and quickly became favorites at several well-known London nightclubs. Tours were numerous and the band played all over the world including having residencies in the UK, Norway, Switzerland, Hong Kong & Germany (where they got the chance to jam with Miles Davis in Cologne). There would be no further Matata recordings and sadly the band split after releasing their second album. Luckily, we are left with the unique documents that are ‘Air Fiesta’ and ‘Independence’.

The album we are presenting you today (Independence from 1974) comes swinging right out the gate with a set of no less than TWELVE monster tunes. It’s a musical gumbo full of irresistible rhythms, punchy blasts, snappy vocal hooks, reverb-laden ‘Santana’ guitar solos, a little reggae and Afrobeat filled horn arrangements, plus everything else needed to get dancers working overtime. On ‘Independence’ the group leaned mightily on James Brown for their groove, and laid out a heavy, rock solid variation on JBs funk with an African percussion base of fluid congas and bongos at the core.

Independence is a quintessential record that every serious collector or fan needs to have in his/her collection. Matata’s marriage of percolating African rhythms delivered one butt-shaking, finger-popping club hit after another that can still fill a dance floor to this day. Hard funky soul with an Afrobeat backbone…it’s all about the grooves here!

Originally released in 1974 on President Records, Tidal Waves Music now proudly presents the first official reissue of this seminal Afrobeat/Afrofunk album. This unique record comes as a deluxe 180g vinyl edition (strictly limited to 1000 copies worldwide) with obi strip and featuring the original artwork. This reissue also comes with an insert featuring pictures of the band and extensive liner notes from award winning author John Masouri. Released exclusively for Record Store Day Black Friday 2021 and available in participating stores on November 26, 2021.

#matata #kenya #1974 #afrobeat #afrofunk #tidalwavesmusic #recordstoreday #blackfriday #RSDBF21

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Dr. Pete Larson and His Cytotoxic Niyatiti Band — S-T (Dagoretti Records)

s/t by Dr. Pete Larson and his Cytotoxic Nyatiti Band

Dr. Pete Larson, the sometime proprietor of BULB records and public face of bands including 25 Suaves and Couch, is an actual doctor. In fact, he’s an epidemiologist who spent time in Kenya studying the transmission of malaria, and during that course of that assignment, he developed an interest in a lute-like eight-stringed instrument called a nyatiti, which is native to Western Kenya. Larson studied with an acknowledged master of the instrument, one Oduor Nyagweno, and when he returned to the states, he brought his instrument with him. Its staccato, percussive jangle—more like a kora than a guitar—sits at the center of these mind-bending, propulsive tracks. It cuts through a haze of electric rock distortion, pinging rhythmically and restlessly against floating euphorias of ululating vocals.

Larson isn’t trying to remake traditional Kenyan music — that would be presumptuous — but rather seeking to incorporate the sound of the nyatiti into a fusion of African folk and Western psychedelic rock. He’s supported by Western musicians (Tom Holman from USAISAMONSTER on drums, Fred Thomas on electric guitar, Dave Sharp on bass, Mike List playing additional percussion and Kat Steih singing) who put the roar of amplified rock under these polyrhythmic songs.  

The songs mostly start in a single short riff on the nyatiti, repeated sparely at first, but gradually layered over itself so that the back end of the ending phrase folds under the front end of the next in a dizzying, serpent-eats-tail kind of infinity. Gradually, other elements are introduced, Steih singing in short, intense, reiterated bursts, the clatter of kit and hand-slapped drums, the skree of feedback altered guitar and bass. The overall effect is a curious blend of intricate, engrossing detail and wide-lens psychedelic hum. You zoom in on the flutter and syncopation of notes. You lose your head in the droning continuum of sustained vibration.

“Abiro” is maybe the best track, the bright, sharp tangle of nyatiti notes carving up slabs of feedback, the piercing, buzzing clarity of group vocals lending a communal vibe. The way the blistered, corroded guitar solo erupts out of a herding song’s slouching, lurching rhythms is like a spaceship blasting off from a thatched village, strange and beautiful. The speed increases as the cut goes on, in a whirling, transportive climax that implies frantic, ecstatic movement.

The point is that this is not really African music and certainly not punk or psychedelia either. It sits somewhere outside these classifications, like the Group Doueh/Cheveu collaboration did or like African Head Charge’s post-punk-plus-stone-age chants did. It’s authentic not to some musicological conception of what nyatiti music should sound like, but to the instincts and proclivities of the musicians involved. And on those terms, it is very good indeed.

Jennifer Kelly

#dr. pete larson #cytotoxic nyatiti band #dagonetti records #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #nyatiti #kenya #25 suaves #psychedelia #fusion

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Name: Vr. Nyla Acerbi Color: Carnation #Ffa6c9 Symbol: Old-fashioned Condor Strife Specibus: throwingstarkind Handle: governingGun Animal: bison Pronouns: he/him Age: 17 Birthday: April 12, which was a friday. Sexuality: Every admir is unreciprocated Interests: vehicle restoration and disc golf Dream Moon: prospit Classpect: Prince of Doom Land: Land of Hazards and Deceit, an empty place, with exuberant Texas Map Turtle consorts. It is a place full of haunted houses and a forest of concrete. Adanos slumbers. Instrument: nyatiti

#IFTTT #homestuck #oc generator #homestuck kid

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Wolf Müller - Mabomba Dance (Long Version) from: Wolf Müller Meets The Nile Project Feat. Kasiva Mutua, Adel Mekha, Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno (Nouvelle Ambiance, 2019)

Hypnotic percussion, Nyatiti experiments and Nubian vocal traditions combine with drum machines and analogue synth textures for a dancefloor meeting in the shadow of the Aswan Dam.

Recorded in Aswan, Egypt in January 2016 as a part of The Nile Project gathering.

#2010s #wolf müller #jan schulte #kasiva mutua #adel mekha #rapasa nyatrapasa otieno #electronic #tribal #tribal house #afro #afro cosmic #percussion #hypnotic percussion #analogue synth textures #nouvelle ambiance #2019 #egypt #nile project