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The film might, too. The women interviewed by director Singeli Agnew for her 80-minute documentary make sense; their outrage has the texture of truth; paradoxically, perhaps, it’s the detail ...
Nyege Nyege’s latest snapshot of Tanzanian singeli pairs an avant-garde producer with a local keyboardist; the high-BPM results sound like a loose, extremely weird jam session. Drum-machine ...
The release of the 2017 compilation Sounds Of Sisso that introduced the world to the blistering 200 BPM, Technicolor sounds of singeli as imagined by artists working at Mohamed Hamza Ally aka Sisso’s ...
Polish filmmakers went straight to Tanzania to capture how musicians and DJs cultivating the style called singeli live. As Tanzania embarked on the road to capitalism twenty years ago, the film is ...
Emerging from the vibrant urban landscapes of Dar es Salaam and Tanzania’s coastal regions, Singeli is more than a music—it is a cultural movement. Characterized by its high-speed tempos, looping ...
They’re the dizzyingly fast polyrhythms of Tanzanian singeli, hurtling along at well upwards of 200 beats per minute, or the hyper-syncopated cadences and sugary harmonies of electro acholi ...
Kate Middleton photo: What went wrong? How are people in Gaza observing Ramadan? Singeli is a style of electronic dance music that developed in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the mid-2000s.
Dar es Salaam — Tanzania's Singeli music is spreading far beyond its roots after American musician Alicia Augello-Cook, known popularly as Alicia Keys decided to incorporate the frenetic music ...