'The Kenya Sessions' Album Launch by Sven Kacirek

Kenya Fri 16-09-2011

'The Kenya Sessions' Album Launch by Sven Kacirek
Press Release | Goethe-Institut Nairobi

For five weeks in 2009, Germany‘s electronic music virtuoso Sven Kacirek from Hamburg travelled back and forth across Kenya, equipped with his audio recorder. The result is a musical road movie: from Lake Victoria in Nyanza to the Kenyan coast.

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Album Launch of 'The Kenya Sessions'

His album The Kenya Sessions features some of the best Kenyan musicians such as the legendary Dodo singer Ogoya Nengo, the multi-instrumentalist Raymond Mackenzie, the orchestras of Jack Nyadundo, Ali Khamed and Swaleh Mwatela, the Nyatiti players Okumo Korengo and Owino Koyo, and many others.

The album has been released and is getting international acclaim; it received a nomination for the prestigious German Record Critics‘ Award 2011! In Kenya, The Daily Nation stated: "This is surely the way of the future. What emerges retains a Kenyan ‚creative soul but has a captivating freshness to it.”

Now, on Friday 16th September 2011, Sven Kacirek returns to Kenya to present the album to the Nairobi audience in a solo concert!

Sven Kacirek - Album Launch of 'The Kenya Sessions'
Friday 16th September 2011, 8pm
Goethe-Institut, Maendeleo House, Monrovia Street,
Nairobi.

For more info, please contact;
Goethe-Institut Nairobi,
Tel: +254-20-2224640,
Email: prog@nairobi.goethe.org

Posted By: Allan Kapten

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