Owiny Sigoma Band - Power Punch!!! flac album

Owiny Sigoma Band’s debut was released two years ago after a group of London-based musicians travelled to Kenya to collaborate with nyatiti master musician and music teacher Joseph Nyamungu and Luo drummer Charles Owoko. The results on the self-titled disc seemed to reflect on the visitors quickly learning from their hosts, as they produced a set of songs largely based on traditional Luo folk, comprised of irregular rhythms, with poppier songs like 'Wires’ and 'Here On The Line’ representing the English musicians’ influence.

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Owiny Sigoma Band has settled into a consistent stride with their second release, honing everything that made their eponymous debut one of the cross-cultural highlights of 2011. That album proved successful in mixing traditional Kenyan Luo rhythms with an urban lounge groove. The importance of the band's ancestry was outlined by front man Joseph Nyamungu, who named the project after his grandfather. Power Punch instantly comes across as a much more electronic album, with the eight-stringed nyatiti lyre, probably the signature instrument of the band, never far from a keyboard bleep or computerised drum loop. To emphasise how bold this juxtaposition is, consider how entrenched in ancestral knowledge – passed down through generations, never dehumanised by a recording device – Nyamungu previously advertised his nyatiti to be.

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