tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post8054138011741358933..comments2023-11-24T05:58:44.522+01:00Comments on Tix iyo Tiraab (Poetry and Prose): Facts and Fables CompiledSanaaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16748859280946181648noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-6391227768512082112019-02-24T13:42:35.649+01:002019-02-24T13:42:35.649+01:00No doubt the label has, indeed, done a great job. ...No doubt the label has, indeed, done a great job. Kudos also go to Redsea Cultural Foundation for its colossal archival work, which is hardly acknowledged in the press.<br /><br />I'm not aware of any books about dhaanto. The university library in Mogadishu had in the '80s a number of theses dealing with Somali culture, including music. That's where I first saw an extensive account on dhaanto as a social philo., but I haven't seen them ever since. Anyone with copies or info, please share. Sanaaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748859280946181648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-85842898297256286092019-02-23T08:03:02.537+01:002019-02-23T08:03:02.537+01:00It took me a while to read this post but what a tr...It took me a while to read this post but what a treat, thanks. As far as the lost tapes are concerned I understand where u coming from since the label is glorifying itself a bit too much, but I think they did a great job. Thanks also for the info about dhaanto, too bad the philosophical side is barely known. Are there books about it? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-77527827612337422642018-11-06T09:35:03.104+01:002018-11-06T09:35:03.104+01:00I gather it's a group of secondary school stud...I gather it's a group of secondary school students who, after graduation in the early/mid 70s, quickly evolved into the house band of Hotel Waamo. Xuseen Kayaabshe, their lead guitarist, is considered as one of the best slingers in that period and their artistic leader Axmed jiiniyas joined SNM after he's released. They only lasted for a few years as some of the members were arrested on charges of subversion and/or corruption. Sanaaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748859280946181648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-50558611020832208242018-11-05T04:11:09.932+01:002018-11-05T04:11:09.932+01:00thank u very much for this great post. madaalayaas...thank u very much for this great post. madaalayaasha what a beautiful name, i have never heard of them, who were they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-58242357983566577912018-06-28T06:43:04.832+02:002018-06-28T06:43:04.832+02:00Same here concerning sound deterioration. I've...Same here concerning sound deterioration. I've just embedded a track from 74 under the heading "dhaanto" in the post.Sanaaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748859280946181648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-31496437188325598502018-06-27T14:53:36.452+02:002018-06-27T14:53:36.452+02:00what a great article thanks. do you have dhaanto s...what a great article thanks. do you have dhaanto songs from the 1970s, my parents have some by horsed & waberi but the sound is ruined.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-69816008157736843122018-03-13T19:35:11.494+01:002018-03-13T19:35:11.494+01:00Welcome! I saw the article a few days ago and I, a...Welcome! I saw the article a few days ago and I, apparently, read it too quickly. It’s a great article, but it’s also quite misleading- unintentionally, I suppose.<a href="https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/somali-music-through-ages" rel="nofollow">See my reaction there</a>Sanaaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748859280946181648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-42932153395583163052018-03-13T12:26:56.318+01:002018-03-13T12:26:56.318+01:00Thanks for this fantastic posting and wonderful th...Thanks for this fantastic posting and wonderful the BBC finally corrected most of the errors. I also agree with you the translation of Khadra Daahir's statements is partially incorrect. By the way have you seen this informative article? https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/somali-music-through-agesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-76579033314247105472018-01-05T07:31:11.448+01:002018-01-05T07:31:11.448+01:0083-86 French service. Yes, I've known YG as a ...83-86 French service. Yes, I've known YG as a colleague and collegemate. We're both studying while working at the radio. Haven't kept abreast of his pol. forays, but all these short-lived reshuffles are imo quite detrimental to the stability of the country which is already vulnerable...<br /><br />Could you plse get in touch per mail? Would love to reconnect!Sanaaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748859280946181648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-49653579040356297762018-01-04T15:17:23.707+01:002018-01-04T15:17:23.707+01:00This is fabulous, thank you very much. You said ev...This is fabulous, thank you very much. You said everything I felt about this compilation and more very well.<br /><br />I also worked fro Radio Mogadishu in the 80s. When were you there? Have you known Yusuf Garaad? I've just read he's been sacked yesterday as min. of Foreign Affairs. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-64313465421165321012018-01-01T22:07:20.990+01:002018-01-01T22:07:20.990+01:00Thanks! I also posed the same question about Onkod...Thanks! I also posed the same question about Onkod elsewhere on the blog. It seems hardly any of their tracks had survived. As they belonged to the Custodial Corps, their material might have been destroyed...<br /><br />Their version of Diinleeya is on YT, embedded it in the post under "Dhaanto".Sanaaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748859280946181648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-71629562258202139162017-12-31T14:40:14.866+01:002017-12-31T14:40:14.866+01:00glad i found your blog and respect for this fantas...glad i found your blog and respect for this fantastic post. i'll sure come back for more. the label and the media have done a good job but they also made gigantic blunders. the bbc is acting like a twat by refusing to correct obvious errors. do you have anything by kooxda onkod? would be great.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-91027612784541258892017-11-10T16:32:36.811+01:002017-11-10T16:32:36.811+01:00“I'm well aware of that fact. And it is dhaant...“I'm well aware of that fact. And it is <i>dhaanto</i>! I've done enough research and asked celebrated Somali musicians”! I wrote <i>Dhaanto</i> at the beginning of a sentence in a <b>private Twitter message</b> and she, apparently, was argumentatively correcting my capitalised D! Embarrassing for anyone, and specially for a journo who stubbornly was -and still is- refusing to correct her <b>glaring and internationally spread blunders</b>!<br /><br />Why she omitted these crucial facts is anybody's guess. One obvious reason is that they certainly would nullify what she wrote about the revival and modernisation of dhaanto.Sanaaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748859280946181648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-71632360627523605022017-11-09T19:00:08.669+01:002017-11-09T19:00:08.669+01:00that's bizare. If she knew why did she omit it...that's bizare. If she knew why did she omit it then? maybe it depends on what comes after the dots “I'm well aware of that fact... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-10922333804274753832017-11-02T07:49:36.401+01:002017-11-02T07:49:36.401+01:00Thanks, I'll def. ponder over the next steps i...Thanks, I'll def. ponder over the next steps in the procedure.<br /><br />When I said that dhaanto was revived in the 1900s and modernised in the 1930s, the reporter reacted with: “I'm well aware of that fact... I've done enough research and asked celebrated Somali musicians”! If she'd put that single sentence in the article, I'd have never started this whole process.Sanaaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748859280946181648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-27140655403709426492017-11-01T14:56:03.930+01:002017-11-01T14:56:03.930+01:00awesome post & blog, man. i was surprised to r...awesome post & blog, man. i was surprised to read in several articles about this release the songs were newly rescued and i thought how so? my family have had them forever. what is the facts the reporter omited from the article?i've a bit of experience with bbc complaints and they never accept mistakes, i think they are afraid of legal claims. but your appeal is very strong. if they reject, go to ofcom where the chance for a fair decision is bigger. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-91452832450403063932017-10-19T22:45:31.979+02:002017-10-19T22:45:31.979+02:00the decision of the bbc can not be more ridiculuou...the decision of the bbc can not be more ridiculuous, lost all respect for the been been sii.yo'd def go ahead with the appeal. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-15783669750358252002017-10-09T23:16:09.134+02:002017-10-09T23:16:09.134+02:00This comment has been removed by the author..https://www.blogger.com/profile/16171259506323252928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-76568062634121479322017-10-09T21:57:25.203+02:002017-10-09T21:57:25.203+02:001. No clarification is needed: What you saw on the...1. No clarification is needed: What you saw on the vids was not the mainstream but a small well-off section of the society and it still exists to this very day - strangely enough in even greater numbers, mainly due to the homecoming diaspora. Moreover, there are more factual inaccuracies and absurdities in your article. The commenter there raised two very relevant points and I can add a handful more but it’s not necessary. Anybody interested can find some/most of them by (carefully) reading your article and this post;<br /><br />2. As you (should) know, there bizarrely was no sleeve in the k7! It doesn’t matter ‘cause the completely redundant fables injected into this great project oblige me not to get involved in any way, shape or form. Good luck!Sanaaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748859280946181648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-1978330427278022092017-10-09T17:28:29.506+02:002017-10-09T17:28:29.506+02:00"I was obsessed with the idea that this would..."I was obsessed with the idea that this would be lost, until now"! - just to clarify this: i was not talking about the recordings,but the life(style), arts and the infrastucture for cultural life. and yes, i ment until now, today implied. I did NOT mean "until now" that it is published via this compilation.<br /><br />i never and at no point claimed this to be the historical truth but my personal and subjectiv first impression. <br /><br />i consider this project as a learning process and i am very happy to learn from people like you and shure, there is room for evolvement and improvement. my telephone number & email is written on the cassette. so why not contact me directly and talk to me first?<br /><br />-Nicolas S.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12855008593333842303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-70654684359023629032017-10-07T17:30:02.079+02:002017-10-07T17:30:02.079+02:00I will!!! I have a list of names of singers that I...I will!!! I have a list of names of singers that I hope to interview before the end of the year, Cabdow -whose voice is amazing- I interviewed yesterday and will interview again on monday for more in depth analysis on Somali Music.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16171259506323252928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-75827479387224524822017-10-07T17:01:04.692+02:002017-10-07T17:01:04.692+02:00There are a lot of ambiguities about Som. music an...There are a lot of ambiguities about Som. music and people claim and attribute left and right. However, one thing is crystal clear: Gov’t-controlled bands were not created by an individual but by organisations. In the case of Danan, by Ururka Dhallinyarada for which Axmed Nuur Yuusuf was a xoghaye and abwaan.<br /><br />MM tells in interviews that the minister of info. Bowkax heard her sing at a night club. As she was only 15, he asked AN, who’s also at the club, to accompany her to Radio Moga where she signed a contract as a professional singer. Let me know if you get hold of her.Sanaaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748859280946181648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-34078791831099631522017-10-07T07:45:53.202+02:002017-10-07T07:45:53.202+02:00Not really.Who created Kooxda Danan? Ustaad Axmed ...Not really.Who created Kooxda Danan? Ustaad Axmed Noor but he never joined! Also it was not a group set up with new singers, they were all in Radio mogadishu at the time and in the 60s Axmed Naaji was probably one of the biggest musicians in Mogadishu and so it is not a shocking thing that he helped create the group, anyway i hope to interview Maryan Mursal soon and we shall have our answer then..https://www.blogger.com/profile/16171259506323252928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-40392384293938277222017-10-07T05:48:26.881+02:002017-10-07T05:48:26.881+02:00Rather odd that AN created SJ but never joinedit!Rather odd that AN created SJ but never joinedit!Sanaaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16748859280946181648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1874219022450872173.post-50987332733957670822017-10-06T22:34:24.746+02:002017-10-06T22:34:24.746+02:00Today i had the pleasure of interviewing the singe...Today i had the pleasure of interviewing the singer Cabdow Aramram and when asked about the origins of Kooxda Somali Jazz he said that it started as a group within Radio Mogadishu and that it was created by Al Ustaad Axmed Naaji..https://www.blogger.com/profile/16171259506323252928noreply@blogger.com