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Day 5 in Juba

soundthread — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:12:36 +0000

This was going to be our last day with Simon and so it was important to capture as much visually interesting content as possible, we certainty were not let down. It must have been around 9 O’clock in the evening when we pulled up to Paulion’s house. Meeting anyone with Ras Korby is like being [...]

Day 4 in Juba

soundthread — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:11:30 +0000

Day 4 got off to a slower start in comparison. We tried to get some money from an ATM, you know that straight forward process that happens in the majority of the world. We just presumed that we could do this, but we were horribly wrong. After spending an hour or so trying to get [...]

Day 3 in Juba

soundthread — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:10:06 +0000

We are woken in the morning with the sound of drums and passionate singing and after a coffee Ras Korby takes us just around the corner from his house to meet Martin Ogok who leads the Ategulwak cultural group. This group contains a wide range of ages where the majority play the Calabash, an instrument [...]

Day 2 in Juba

soundthread — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:34:16 +0000

Day two, we hit the ground running by traveling to rural Juba. On our way to the location we picked up a guitar from a friends of Ras Korby’s house. A young chap gets into the car with us who goes by the name Mayen, after an interview out side him house we set off [...]

Day 1 in Juba

soundthread — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:32:55 +0000

After finally gaining entrance to the country we were met at the airport by our friend Original Ras Korby, he’s our artist friend, fixer and president of the Musicians Union. It’s apparent from the moment we set off into the town that Korby holds respect from both his peers and government friends. It seems like [...]

Visa’s for South Sudan

soundthread — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:04:02 +0000

Before we even get into the country, our journey into South Sudan is met with difficulties. It seems that departments and officials are not interested in making it easy for foreigners to get into the country. The whole visa saga is managed by unhelpful jobsworths and cold difficult clerks who are more interested in shrouding [...]

Rwanda to Kenya

soundthread — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:05:44 +0000

So tomorrow we fly to Nairobi to pick up Visas for our entry to South Sudan. Fingers crossed this should only take a day, but apparently it can take anything up to 3 days. But for now it’s time for coffee on our last day in Rwanda, cheers!

Our journey to South Sudan

soundthread — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:39:25 +0000

I’m writing this first post whilst in Rwanda on the first leg of a trip across East Africa on our musical project. I’m here in Rwanda for 10 days and then fly to Kenya to pick up a visa in preparation for our big project in Juba capital of South Sudan. When I think about [...]