Alan W. Boyd - Music Of The Waswahili Of Lamu, Kenya, Volume 2: Other Sacred Music

Folkways Records - LP

Ethnomusicology / Field Recording / Kenyan Music

Stunning recordings of the Waswahili people of Lamu Old Town, the best preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa. An ethnomusicological research focused on sacred music and chants of this center region of Swahili and Islamic culture; except for the "Furenal procession", the other chants are focused on the Mawlid ritual, an annual ritual commemorating the birth of prophet Muhammad. Pure spiritual music. (VG+/VG+)