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2017 Premier Edition

by Various Artists

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The 2017 Premier Edition album is a result of the first Rhythm is Life tour of northern Uganda organised by the Nyinomugisha Niyabo Foundation.

Due to a war that lasted over 20 years, the young generation of northern Uganda face the most difficulties- economic problems, life long conditions, tough circumstances and behavioural issues and we feel they are the ones who get the most out of music making.

Within a space of 2 weeks we held workshops in Lira, Kitgum and Gulu, on the essentials in "MUSIC PRODUCTION, DEE JAY SKILLS and MUSIC BUSINESS" lectured by Tom Strauch of the Ancient Astronauts and Lee Bass of Gato Preto.

The recording sessions with a selected group of workshop attendees, was held in the tour bus by Less Bass and some of the vocals partly recorded behind the youth centre building in Kitgum by Tom Strauch.
The whole project was captured 24/7 on camera by Alex Wurm and has produced a lot of stills for our exhibitions and documentary.

All the artists are born, raised and reside in Uganda with the majority living in the north, hence this compilation is to shine a light on unknown talent from northern uganda

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released July 24, 2018

All beats and music produced by Ancient Astronauts except*

*Acholi Warrior pt.2 produced by Less Bass

Track 3 and 6 "Gyal Dem Ah Cool" produced by Ancient Astronauts and remixed by Maker

Acoli traditional instrument samples by some of the other workshop attendees

2017 Premier Edition Album mastered by Arthur Wnorowski

Artwork photo: Head of the family in Lira by night cooking/selling Rolex captured by Tom Strauch

A short documentary of the tour is available in vimeo vimeo.com/niyabo and a more detailed report on our website nnf-ukug.org

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Rhythm Is Life London, UK

Rhythm is Life is an annual project organised by the Nyinomugisha Niyabo Foundation a music and cultural organisation that caters for youth in the UK, Uganda and elsewhere.

One of our core aims with this project is to educate and create beautiful music through culturally fusing different sounds to promote unknown talent.
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