Jan 5/05
The Kenya Now
THE MP3 HAS BEEN FIXED
Back in an airport on wi-fi with some time for a quick post.
Yunasi is a contemporary group of six Kenyan musicians, often backed up by percussionists and orchestras of different shapes and sizes. They’re all pretty young - early 20s - and have a really fresh sound that’s very modern and distinctly Kenyan.
Over the last 3 or 4 years their popularity has steadily climbed both home and abroad following several successful gigs on some major European music festivals. They also scored several of Kenya’s Kisima awards in 2003 including “best overall group”, helping to give them a boost in their country.
They have several great tracks, including Kisumu 100 and Ji ogopore. I settled on another for today’s post, Yamala, since it’s currently my favourite driving song. Make sure to turn up the bass on this one - nice production. If you can’t find a Yunasi album, you can grab this track on the Rough Guide’s surprisingly excellent “Guide to the music of Kenya“.
ps- I used to be quite skeptical, but I’ve decided to give these Rough Guide Africa compilations a listen and I gotta say I’m pretty impressed with many of the picks.
Tags: kenya
January 5th, 2005 at 11:19 am
i couldnt open this mp3 on my pc— were others able to download & play it successfully?
January 5th, 2005 at 12:34 pm
I could download it, but unfortunatly can not hear it.. looks like the file is corrupted or at least not well encoded… sounds like a Black Dice remix of a hardbeat techno song would sound : nothing to hear, just noise
January 5th, 2005 at 1:13 pm
Download ok, but it sounds scrambled …
January 5th, 2005 at 2:36 pm
Either the mp3 is garbled or Yunasi has a sound that is very very modern.
January 6th, 2005 at 3:28 am
I downloaded the mp3 on my mac, but when I tried to play it, the song was quiet, quick and muffled.
January 6th, 2005 at 5:37 am
Downloaded ok and sounded fine on my mac, but it’s only like 1 second long.
January 6th, 2005 at 4:06 pm
Sorry about that. Fixed now.
January 16th, 2005 at 7:16 am
Your link to The Rough Guide to the Music of Kenya goes to the old Kenya/Tanzania compilation. The new Rough Guide is:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001W30E0/
February 5th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Hi,am also a great fan of the Yunasi group……I tried to open the Mp3 but couldn’t work…I tried the Rough guide to to theMusic of Kenya and it made me confused…
February 5th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Sharz,
Music is available for a limited time only. Once and a while I accept requests for re-posts - keep reading and once you see an announcement you can make a request.
Cheers,
Matt
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:28 pm
you can download 2 albums from here http://www.yunasi.com
did you know yunasi have just won the bbc world service global talent contest ‘the next big thing’?