Noori & His Dorpa Band (live @Le Guess Who? 2022)

Noori & His Dorpa Band released the revolutionary album ’Beja Power’ this year. This sensational band hails from Port Sudan, a city on the Red Sea coast in eastern Sudan and the heart of the Beja culture. This session was recorded in TivoliVredenburg Utrecht during @Le Guess Who? Noori - tambo-guitar, Samir - bongo’s, Fox - conga’s, Gaido - bass guitar, Naji - tenor sax, Tariq - rhythm guitar 00:00 Jabana 04:45 Daleb 11:11 Qwal 16:40 Al Amal One of the most stirring aspects of Noori & His Dorpa Band’s music is that they’re in dialogue with Sudanese music from decades past. With their blending of Western and African musical styles, craft a sound all their own. Noori was 18 when he crafted the tambo-guitar, a hybrid instrument that combined a tambour (a stringed lyre also known as the krar) with an electric guitar he found in a junkyard. With it, he envisioned keeping Beja music alive, something that was difficult in his home country of Sudan when the former Head