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Owiny Sigoma Never Fails
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01. Jalako Onyoono Paka from hotstar app download
02. Wires (Theo Parrish Remix)
03. Here On The Line (Stalker Dub)
04. Hera (Sun Araw Remix)
05. Oduor Nyagweno Meets Owiny Sigoma Uptown
06. Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Remix)
07. Nabed Nade Ei Piny Ka
08. Nyiduonge Drums
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HARPOON LAND
DIGITAL
01. Harpoon Land
02. Harpoon Land (Hello Skinny Remix)
03. Harpoon Land (Jesse Hackett's Funeral Suite Remix)
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POWER PUNCH
LP / CD / DIGITAL
01. Nagalo Ni Piny Odag
02. Norbat Okelo
03. Sunken Wrecks
04. Lucas Malore
05. Magret Aloor
06. Mombassa Outro
07. Harpoon Land
08. Owiny Techno
09. Yukimwi
10. All Together
11. Jonny Ra Ha
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OWINY TECHNO b/w NYIDUONGE DRUMS with best digital piano for beginners
LTD. EDITION 12''
01. OWINY TECHNO
02. NYIDUONGE DRUMS
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HERE ON THE LINE
DIGITAL
01. Here On The Line
02. Here On The Line (Stalker Dub)
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TAFSIRI SOUND EP
12'' / DIGITAL
01. Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Remix)
02. Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Dub)
03. Margaret Okudo (Jesse Hackett Dancehall Remix)
04. Owegi Owandho (Hello Skinny Remix)
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OWINY SIGOMA BAND
2LP [GATEFOLD] / CD / DIGITAL
01. Gone Thum Mana Gi Nyadhi
02. Odera Lwar
03. Wires
04. Margaret Okudo (Dub)
05. Hera
06. Doyoi Nyajo Nam
07. Owegi Owandho (Solo)
08. Nabed Nade Ei Piny Ka (Rework)
09. Here On The Line
10. Rapar Nyanza
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WIRES (THEO PARRISH REMIX)
12'' / DIGITAL
01. Wires (Theo Parrish Remix)
02. Wires (Album Version)
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DOYOI NYAJO NAM b/w JALAKO ONYOONO PAKA
12'' / DIGITAL
A. Doyoi Nyajo Nam
AA. Jalako Onyoono Paka
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MO FIYAAAA!!!
An Owiny Sigoma Band mixtape by Hello Skinny and Jesse Hackett, June 2011.
Limited edition cassette distributed at Worldwide Festival 2011.
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HELLO SKINNY - ODUOR NYAGWENO MEETS OWINY SIGOMA UPTOWN
Hello Skinny from Owiny Sigoma Band on a bumpy techno flex. Enjoy.
“With Joseph driving the band like a burning preacher we take flight into new, unchartered territories.”
Jesse Hackett, Owiny Sigoma Band 2013
In 2009, a handful of London-based musicians travelled to Nairobi in Kenya to collaborate with local musicians there. It was a loose arrangement… there was no specific agenda other than to bring the musicians together, exchange ideas and enjoy the results.
Jesse Hackett (keys), Louis Hackett (bass), Sam Lewis (guitar) and Tom Skinner (drums) made up the London contingent and their first trip to Nairobi was in January 2009 to meet and collaborate with two Kenyan musicians: Joseph Nyamungu and Charles Owoko. The workshop/rehearsals were a lot of fun and pretty fruitful – “They acted as a skills exchange and a way of sharing our music. We learned some of their songs and they learned some of our songs too,” explains Tom.
Finding a studio that could accomodate a 7-piece live band wasn’t easy but eventually they holed up in an amazing disused factory space to record. The resulting four tracks made their way to Gilles Peterson who promptly signed the band to his Brownswood imprint and sent the boys back to Nairobi for another week-long recording session with Joseph, Charles and their extended musical family. The results are documented on the band’s self-titled album from 2011 – a collection of gloriously hypnotic Afro grooves symbolic of the true culture clash between the Luo and London.
Teasing ahead to their sophomore album, Brownswood’s London>Kenya cartel deliver the superheavyweight Owiny Techno on 1st April 2013 – a straight ahead sound system killer uniquely aimed at the dancefloor. Harder, better, faster, stronger… it hurtles out of the speakers at a brisk 140bpm powered by a boisterous technoid drum riddim and bolstered by drummer Charles Owoko’s rolling percussion. The unity of this mighty groove is interrupted, and augmented, by wayward, distorted bass and the overall result is pure fire for the dancefloor.
Owiny Sigoma Band unleash Power Punch on 8th April 2013 via Brownswood Recordings. Spinning on its London>Nairobi axis, the MOBO-nominated group continue to redefine universal, artistic and cultural exchange blending traditional Kenya nyatiti and Luo music with Western songwriting and production techniques. The album, as its title suggests, is a confident, radiant, record packed with stirring, sometimes downright frisky jams. A truly original and exhilarating soundclash, Power Punch marks the next exciting chapter in the evolution of a remarkable band.