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Nakibembe Embaire Group live mixed by Mad Professor
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Nakibembe Embaire Group live mixed by Mad Professor

Embaire ensemble remixed live by Mad Professor

Based in Nakibembe Village, Uganda

DubFolkFree improvisation

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The embaire’s repeating patterns get pushed through live dub mixing, so the texture should be deep echoes, sudden drops, and low-end smear around the wooden keys. The performance is likely to feel more like a moving sound-system session than a straight folk set.

More about Nakibembe Embaire Group live mixed by Mad Professor

This pairs Nakibembe Embaire Group, one of the last working embaire ensembles from Uganda, with Mad Professor, the South London dub producer behind Ariwa. It brings together a village xylophone tradition and one of the key British dub studio lineages.

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Nyege Nyege Tapes, Mad Professor, Ariwa Sounds

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