Name: Dur Dur Band of Somalia Volume 1 and 2
Brand: Dur Dur Band

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

AALP087

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Discogs ID

[r12516028]

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Triple 140 Gram Vinyl Set housed in Gatefold Sleeve with liner notes and pictures. 

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-09-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

4260126061286

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Total Cap

3 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Dur Dur Band

Genre GB

African

Label GB

Analog Africa

The brand new release by Analog Africa is the great Dur Dur Band from Somalia. This triple LP / double CD reissue of the band’s first two albums - the first installment in a three-part series dedicated to Dur-Dur Band - represents the first fruit of Analog Africa’s long labours to bring this extraordinary music to the wider world. Remastered from the best available audio sources, these songs have never sounded better. Some thirty years after they first made such a splash in the Mogadishu scene, they have been freed from the wobble and tape-hiss of second and third generation cassette dubs, to reveal a glorious mix of polychromatic organs, nightclub-ready rhythms and hauntingly soulful vocals. In addition to two previously unreleased tracks, the music is accompanied by extensive liner notes, featuring interviews with original band members, documenting a forgotten chapter of Somalia’s cultural history. Before the upheaval in the 1990s that turned Somalia into a war-zone, Mogadishu, the white pearl of the Indian Ocean, had been one of the jewels of eastern Africa, a modern paradise of culture and commerce. In the music of the Dur-Dur band - now widely available outside of Somalia - we can still catch a fleeting glimpse of that golden age. When Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb arrived in Mogadishu in November of 2016, he was informed by his host that he would have to be accompanied at all times by an armed escort while in the country. The next morning, a neighbour and former security guard put on a military uniform, borrowed an AK-47 from somewhere and escorted him to Via Roma, an historical street in the heart of Hamar-Weyne, the city’s oldest district. Although previous Analog Africa releases have demonstrated a willingness to go more than the extra air-mile to track down the stories behind the music, the trip to Mogadishu was a musical journey of a different kind. It was the culmination of an odyssey that had started many years earlier.

2CD - With 12-page booklet with liner notes and Pictures.

3LP - Triple 140 Gram Vinyl Set housed in Gatefold Sleeve with liner notes and pictures. 

Dur Dur Band of Somalia Volume 1 and 2

Music GB