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By: logomba

logomba — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:03:57 +0000

mbaraka was a class act’i cherish mbaraka songs and i got some early collection from tamasha and i would really appreciate if any of u guys can direct me to where i can get any of his works either in vinyl tape or dvd especially on tamasha polydor or any recording i especially want volumes 1,2.3,4,5and masimango,hello betty etc email me on lovylogomba@aol.com im a dj in england specializing in rhumba

By: Gerald Shuma

Gerald Shuma — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:34:10 +0000

African Music Links

By: ivfubis

ivfubis — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:52:17 +0000

Hi all!!! Cool site!!!

By: chediel

chediel — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:11:28 +0000

huyu ni fahari yetu tunajivunia sauti safi tuwekee nyimbo nyingi zaidi

By: ndesanjo

ndesanjo — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:10:38 +0000

Mbaraka…his voice and his guitar. Acha tu! And those saxophones.
I concur with Mwandani about Mbaraka’s influences.

By: Baruti

Baruti — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:43:35 +0000

Mbaraka wa Mwinshehe, mwanamuziki maarufu na aliyependwa Tanzania, Afrika Mashariki na mbali. Fahari ya Tanzania, alitutoka ghafla na ni daima atakuwa katika mioyo ya wengi wetu.

By: Mwandani

Mwandani — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:19:58 +0000

Thanks for Mbaraka’s track – shida!

Mbaraka was the a true Tanzanian musician – of course influenced by other musicians frome home and abroad. However I am not sure about:

“It’s the sound of somebody taking a Congolese model and making it his own.”

During his time it was common to play “cuban” sounds and Mbaraka developed that sound. Mbaraka’s main rival from his home town of Morogoro, Salum Abdalah even called his band “Cuban marimba”

Congolese did the same. Remember Franco’s track called merengue.
In some of Mbaraka’s older tracks you could even hear marabi influences -something that Congolese did as well. So Mbaraka sounds like Congolese probably because Congolese were doing the same thing at the time.

Anyway great stuff. you made my day!