Journey Without Maps brings you vintage, rare, and underground global music from uncharted sonic territories. Every week, I unearth a new musical landscape: African soul & funk, Latin rhythms, eastern European electronica, Middle East psychedelic, Asian surf rock ⦠and more.
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On this episode soul, funk, and dance music from East Africa: Kenya and Tanzania. Infectious drumming, liquid electric guitar, hypnotic bass lines â the Nairobi sound of benga is a mash-up of traditional Kenyan music, Cuban rhumba, Congolese finger-picking guitars, and South African street buskers. Meanwhile, in Tanzania a similar sound was brewing. Based on Congolese rumba, muziki wa dansi (or "dance music" in Swahili), brought blistering horns and brass to nightclubs in Dar Es Salaam.
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