…The album was recorded in situ by Grammy Award winning producer Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ustad Saami, The Good Ones).
In Oman, descendants of the “other” African slave trade continue to live in the Ash-Sharqiyah region that hosted the main port.
Centuries on, Al-Mudema (“sailor songs”) musicians continue to sing mostly in Swahili and feature music mixing African rhythms and bagpipes. These descendants are referred to as the Zanzabari (or sometimes locally as Khal people). And they sing the songs of those who were brought forcibly by ship centuries before.
Rather than bagpipes (qurbah) being appropriated from Scotland or introduced by the British colonizers as is commonly claimed,…

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