Gasper Nali and his “Babatoni”
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Gasper Nali, a one-man-band, plays a Babatoni – a 3 meter, one-stringed, home-made bass guitar – with an empty bottle and a stick and makes the most beautiful and catchy original afro-beats possible. He made the instruments himself from recycled stuff that he collected. The string on his bass is made of wires from burnt […]
Zomba Prison Project – I Have No Everything Here
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In the summer of 2013, Grammy-winning producer, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, TV on the Radio) and his wife, Italian photographer and filmmaker, Marilena Delli, traveled to the south of Malawi specifically to document and record the music of prisoners at the maximum security prison in Zomba [as part of the “Zomba Prison Project”]. […]
RIP Thomas Chibade
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rip-thomas-chibade/
One of Malawi‘s biggest music stars, Thomas Chibade, dead at the age of 37 in October 2023. His compositions, between Reggae and AfroPop, were popular among young Malawians.
He started his carrer in the early 2000s with his album “Zatukusira”, a Chichewa word which could be translated as “It has come out”. […]
