: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Dur Dur Of Somalia : Album.......: Volume 1 & Volume 2 : : Label.......: Analog Africa .. .:.. . Genre.......: Ethnic : Catnr.......: AACD 087 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2018-11-14 Str.date....: 2018-00-00 Quality.....: 228kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://analogafrica.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Ohyiee 5:57 2. Yabaal 5:56 3. Hiyeeley 3:59 4. Doon Baa Maraysoo 7:31 5. Intro Vol.2 1:03 6. Jaceyl Mirrahiis 5:21 7. Dab 7:45 8. Jaajumoow Jees 5:43 9. Diinleya 6:19 10. Keene Gardaran 4:01 11. Juba Aaka 7:35 12. Aduun Hawii Kama Dhamaato 8:40 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 69:50 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 125.22______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: 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. ': ,: :, : In 2007 John Beadle, a Milwaukee-based musicologist and owner of : :' the much loved Likembe blog, uploaded a cassette he had been ': ,: handed twenty years earlier by a Somalian student. The post was :, : titled 'Mystery Somali Funk' and it was, in Samy's own words, : :' "some of the deepest funk ever recorded". The cassette seemed ': ,: to credit these dense, sonorous tunes to the legendary Iftin :, : Band. But initial contact with Iftin's lead singer suggested : :' that the 'mystery funk' may have actually been the work of ': ,: their chief rival, Dur-Dur, a young band from the 80s. :, : : :' Back then, Mogadishu had been a very different place. ': ,: On the bustling Via Roma, people from all corners of society :, : would gather at the Bar Novecento and Cafe Cappucino, watch : :' movies at the famous Supercinema, and eat at the numerous pasta ': ,: hang-outs or the traditional restaurants that served Bariis :, : Maraq, a somali Beef Stew mixed with delicious spiced rice. The : :' same street was also home to Iftinphone and Shankarphone, two ': ,: of the city's best known music shop. Located opposite each :, : other, they were the centre of Somalia's burgeoning cassette : :' distribution network. Both shops, run by members of the ': ,: legendary Iftin Band, would become first-hand witnesses to the :, : meteoric rise of Dur- Dur, a rise that climaxed in April of 1987 : :' with the release of Volume 2, their second album. ': ,: :, : The first single 'Diinleya' had taken Somalian airwaves by storm : :' in a way rarely seen before or since. The next single, 'Dab', ': ,: had an even greater impact, and the two hits had turned them :, : into the hottest band in town. In addition to their main gig as : :' house band at the legendary Jubba Hotel, Dur-Dur had also been ': ,: asked to perform the music for the play "Jascyl Laba Ruux Mid Ha :, : Too Rido" (May one of us fall in love) at Mogadishu's national : :' theatre. The play was so successful that the management had ': ,: been forced to extend the run by a month, throwing the theatre's :, : already packed schedule into complete disarray; and each night, : :' as soon as the play had finished, Dur-Dur had to pack their ': ,: instruments into a Volkswagen T1 tour bus that would shuttle :, : them across town in time for their hotel performance. : :' ': ,: The secrets to Dur-Dur's rapid success is inextricably linked to :, : the vision of Isse Dahir, founder and keyboard player of the : :' band. Isse's plan was to locate some of the most ': ,: forward-thinking musicians of Mogadishu's buzzing scene and lure :, : them into Dur-Dur. Ujeeri, the band's mercurial bass player was : :' recruited from Somali Jazz and drummer extraordinaire Handal ': ,: previously played in Bakaka Band. These two formed the backbone :, : of Dur-Dur and would become one of Somalia's most extraordinary : :' rhythm sections. ': ,: :, : Isse also added his two younger brothers to the line-up: Abukar : :' Dahir Qassin was brought in to play lead guitar, and Ahmed ': ,: Dahir Qassin was hired as a permanent sound engineer, a first in :, : Somalia and one of the reasons that Dur-Dur became known as the : :' best-sounding band in the country. ': ,: :, : On their first two albums, Volume 1 and Volume 2, three : :' different singers traded lead-vocal duties back and forth. ': ,: Shimaali, formerly of Bakaka Band, handled the Daantho songs, a :, : Somalian rhythm from the northern part of the country that bears : :' a striking resemblance to reggae; Sahra Dawo, a young female ': ,: singer, had been recruited from Somalia's national orchestra, :, : the Waaberi Band. Their third singer, the legendary Baastow, : :' whose nickname came from the italian word 'pasta' due to the ': ,: spaghetti-like shape of his body, had also been a vocalist with :, : the Waaberi Band, and had been brought into Dur-Dur due to his : :' deep knowledge of traditional Somali music, particularly Saar, ': ,: a type of music intended to summon the spirits during religious :, : rituals. These traditional elements of Dur-Dur's repertoire : :' sometimes put them at odds with the manager of the Jubba Hotel ': ,: who once told Baastow "I am not going to risk having Italian :, : tourists possessed by Somali spirits. Stick to disco and : :' reggae". ': ,: :, : Yet from the very beginning, Dur-Dur's doctrine was the fusion : :' of traditional Somali music with whatever rhythms would make ': ,: people dance: Funk, Reggae, Soul, Disco and New Wave were mixed :, : effortlessly with Banaadiri beats, Daantho and spiritual Saar : :' music. The concoction was explosive and when they stormed the ': ,: Mogadishu music scene in 1986 with their very first hit single, :, : 'Yabaal', featuring vocals from Sahra Dawo, it was clear that a : :' new meteorite had crash-landed in Somalia. As Abdulahi Ahmed, ': ,: author of Somali Folk Dances explains: "Yabaal is a traditional :, : song, but the way it was played and recorded was like nothing : :' else we had heard before, it was new to us". 'Yabaal' was one ': ,: of the songs that resurfaced on the Likembe blog, and it became :, : the symbolic starting point of this project. : :' ': ,: It initially seemed that Dur-Dur's music had only been preserved :, : as a series of murky tape dubs and YouTube videos, but after : :' Samy arrived in Mogadishu he eventually got to the heart of ': ,: Mogadishu's tape-copying network – an analogue forerunner of the :, : internet file-sharing that helped to keep the flame of this : :' music alive through the darkest days of Somalia's civil strife ': ,: – and ended up finding some of the band's fabled master tapes, :, : long thought to have disappeared. : :' ': ,: 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. ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 1 8 \/