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Kunama love song “Leledia” – House clubbing version

My Kunama love song “Leledia” published in my second CD “Eritrea” (© Cobalt, 2003) is now available on my YouTube channel. This version has been edited for house clubbing purposes by Lord Cumbia.

Lord Cumbia aka Karl Ferdinand (Electropical Bass / FR) brews a deviously tropical music. He stirs that sweet mix in traditional pots, spikes it with new technologies and shakes the dancefloors giving us a sip of what a cocktail tastes like on Global bass planet.

 

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Album Numey – Songs now available on YouTube

The 10 songs of my CD “Numey” first released in 2000 are now available on this YouTube playlist. In this CD produced in Eritrea, Faytinga sings in her father’s language – Kunama.

The Kunama people are living in the South West of Eritrea. Recent linguistic analysis indicates the Kunama language to be at least 8 000 years old. The Kunama community has an extremely egalitarian ethos and traditional customs are still widely practised. One such practice is the Kundura celebrations held every year in some villages. This festival is a pivotal celebration combining reverence for the Kunama ancestors and rites of passage for the youth. The “Kawena” epic song is the main musical form celebrating the death of an elder, male or female, as the Kunama consider death simply a transition, albeit bitter for the surviving family, and a joyous expectation to meet all ancestors in a wonderful afterlife. The songs “Numey” and “Kundura” on this CD are directly inspired from the Kundura traditional styles. The Kunama love music as it plays an important role in their daily life .

(source: Numey, CD booklet)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8v903XBz0DrVtrFW0NCETs0rDVsUC9aa