Kelele Records: Gonda — Traditional Entertainers (Audio CD)

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Product Details:

• UPC / EAN: 4011222035059
• Order Number: 203505-206
• Product Type: Audio CD (Digipack)
• Brand / Label: Kelele Records (distributed by TIM — The International Music Company)
• Artist: Gonda
• Album: Traditional Entertainers
• Origin: Kenya
• Genre: World
• Style: East African, Kenyan, benga / coastal pop

Product Features

• Format: CD
• Discs: 1
• Tracks: 12
• Total time: 57:48
• Recording: Recorded, mixed and arranged by Franco Cufone and Idy Cortini at Tropical Recording Studio, Malindi, Kenya; mastered at Seraphon Tonstudio by Ulrich Gitschier
• Label code: LC 03168
• Condition: New / Factory sealed

Overview

Traditional Entertainers is a Kenyan dance record — twelve tracks of bright, guitar-and-percussion East African pop sung in Swahili and other local languages. The Gonda band works the groove the way coastal and lakeside Kenyan bands do: interlocking guitars, steady rhythm, and warm group vocals built for the dancefloor.

Song titles tell you where it's rooted — "Gi Lake Victoria," "Kenya Safari," "Ngombe Ni Mali" — and the feel runs from upbeat party numbers to slower, sweeter tunes. It's music made to entertain, exactly as the title promises, with none of the polish-for-export gloss that flattens a lot of "world" releases.

Recorded at Tropical Recording Studio in Malindi and released on the Kelele label through Germany's TIM, this is an authentic slice of working Kenyan band music. Sealed and ready to spin.

Interesting Facts

• The album was recorded at Tropical Recording Studio in Malindi, a coastal Kenyan town long associated with the country's recording scene.
• It was produced and arranged by Franco Cufone and Idy Cortini, with the band managed in Kenya by Tropical Recording & Promotion Ltd.
• Mastering was done in Germany at Seraphon Tonstudio, a common path for African recordings reaching European distribution.
• Kelele means "noise" or "sound" in Swahili — a fitting name for a label focused on lively African dance music.
• The songs are sung largely in Swahili, the lingua franca of East Africa, making the record accessible across the region.

Track Listing

1. Ungekua Ni Wangu — 5:55
2. Gi Lake Victoria — 4:06
3. Ano Mayo, Ano Baba — 4:51
4. Niche Boresha — 4:38
5. Dimulowore — 4:50
6. Mburi Ya Kitutuma — 4:15
7. Lala Sawa Sawa — 5:07
8. Marifa Sawa Sawa — 5:36
9. Ngombe Ni Mali — 4:16
10. Leo Ni Leo — 4:59
11. Kenya Safari — 4:59
12. Dunia Ina Mambo — 4:08

Publishers

© & ℗ by p&g media-service gmbh, Staufen, Germany. Distributed by TIM — The International Music Company AG, Hamburg. Released on Kelele Records.

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