All songs were recorded for The Rhythm Divine during the Into Silence concert at the 2013 Sydney Sacred Music Festival. Sound engineer was Andrei Shabunov. The four songs were traditional.

Eujayl adds that archiving music is not only vital as a record of Sudan’s musical heritage but “it allows us to have a better idea of how people in Sudan lived and thought in the past.

Since February 2024, the salon has held dozens of free performances. The weekly shows go on despite the risks.

It should be no surprise that music has reemerged in Sudan, an ever-present soundtrack to the cultural and political upheavals defining the African nation to the world. Halfway through the last ...

Sudanese jazz musician Sharhabil Ahmed has recently released a magnificent rendition of the late melodist Ibrahim Alkashif's song 'Ard Alkhair' (The Land of Bounties), written about four decades ...

The link between music and politics is not new to Sudan. One of the earliest examples of how powerful lyrics drove political change was a poem entitled “Umm Dhafayir” – The Lady with Pleated ...

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Al Rayah is one of the most prominent Sudanese singers who has contributed to the development of Sudanese music since the late 1950s. He has produced more than sixty songs.

I feel like just doing this music can motivate the South Sudanese youth that’s coming up. You see, you’ve got a dream and you can always chase it.