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Various – Mogadisco (Dancing Mogadishu – Somalia 1972-1991) 2LP
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The sound of ’70s funk (James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and The Temptations) meets Bob Marley reggae-mania filtered through Mogadishu’s luxury hotel-based live music scene.
“Somalia had several nightclubs and although most use DJs to play records, some hotels like Jubba, Al-Uruba and Al Jazeera showcased live bands such as Iftin and Shareero” – so ran a quote from a 1981 article about the explosion of Mogadishu’s live music scene. The venues mentioned in that article were the luxury hotels that had been built to cover the growing demands of the tourist industry. The state-of-the-art hotel Al-Uruba, with its oriental ornaments and white plastered walls, was a wonder of modern architecture. All of Mogadishu’s top bands performed there at some point or another, and many of the songs presented in this compilation were created in such venues.