MUSCAT (Reuters) - The coastal Arab nation of Oman is the unlikely center of a thriving African music scene with roots stretching back centuries and across the seas to Zanzibar. The Omani empire in ...

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When I first heard about Swahili Blonde I thought to myself, “oh great another LA band who is trying to do something experimental.” Not surprisingly, I judged too quickly and came to discover ...

South Africa has established itself as one of the major centres of house music in the world, but in the last decade, a variation of the genre has emerged from the townships of Johannesburg and ...

Psych/folk singer-songwriter Shane Palko has officially released his new LP, Swahili Surreal. Leading up to the release, Palko was featured at Glide Magazine, Groundsounds, B-Sides & Badlands and more ...

MUSCAT, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The coastal Arab nation of Oman is the unlikely centre of a thriving African music scene with roots stretching back centuries and across the seas to Zanzibar. The Omani ...

MUSCAT: Oman seems the unlikely center for a thriving African music scene with roots stretching back centuries and across the seas to Zanzibar. The Omani empire in the 18th- and 19th-century ruled ...