AudioTape Sessions #1 South Sudan
Channel: mitmitta
Date: 26/04/2020

Been excited to put this mix together for some time now. Did you know that South Sudan is the newest Nation in the world? My guess is that few people around have heard the music coming from there. I never made it to South Sudan myself but was very happy to find these audiotapes while in Khartoum, Sudan in 2017. The cassettes I purchased was a majority of lovely gospel, reggae, pop and traditional music.

This mix consist mostly of the popular and traditional sounds but find these also full of elements from rock, jazz and techno as well. I have so to say no information on the years of release but I guess most of these are quite recent sounds from around independence which was in 2011, some of them I guess are from a bit earlier. In any case, the music has it's own unique drive, positive energy, a touch of traditional instruments and rhythms in many of the songs. Let me know what you think or if you have additional information on the artists, years etc.

Thanks for listening!

mitmitta

( for audio only and tracklist go here: https://www.mixcloud.com/mitmitta/folk-pop-from-south-sudanese-audiotapes-00s/ )