The Ketebul Music crew has been in Mombasa, a city on the coastal region of Kenya since 20th of February 2016, on a quest to retrace music from that region. The aim of this trip is to prepare a 13-episode TV show that will be aired on a local media. This show will focus on the different styles and genres of music from the region, including both traditional and new generation music.
The show aims to showcase a contrast between 12 traditional and 12 modern musical groups. Within the two-week period the team, together with Diane Thram, Director of International Library of African Music (ILAM) will also repatriate music recorded earlier by ILAM exclusively from the coastal region.
Other than intensive interviews of both music groups , their audiences and instrument-makers, the show will also present live performances by both modern and traditional groups from the coastal region.
More on this to follow.