more from
Sterns Music
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Dawda Jobarteh (Ben Gomori Edits)

by Dawda Jobarteh

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1.50 GBP  or more

     

  • Limited Edition 12" Vinyl
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A: Dawda Jobarteh - Sama Kebbalu (Ben Gomori's Lead By Example Edit) 8’36”

    B: Dawda Jobarteh - Bright Sky Over Monrovia (Ben Gomori's Kora Dub Edit) 6’50”

    Includes unlimited streaming of Dawda Jobarteh (Ben Gomori Edits) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

1.
2.

about

Sterns Edits is a new collaboration between legendary African & Brazilian label and distributor Sterns Music and London producer and label owner Ben Gomori.

Sterns Music began life as pop-up style record shop housed in the back room of an electrical shop near Warren Street and grew to become the second biggest distributor of music from Africa outside of the continent itself. Over the years they released and distributed hundreds of artists, including household names like Salif Keita, Youssou N'Dour, Baaba Maal, Oumou Dioubate and Orchestre Baobab, building a comprehensive catalogue of music from across the region that spans some six decades. Now located inside a former bank vault underneath Warren Street station, they continue to work with a plethora of African labels, in some cases transferring master tapes to make them available digitally for the first time.

Gomori stumbled across this treasure trove of material when he discovered contemporary Gambian-born, Danish-residing singer and kora player Dawd Jobarteh's propulsive 'Sama Kebbalu' and decided he wanted to create an edit of it for his sets. He decided to see if he could license the track to make for an official release on his label Monologues Records, but soon recognised the bigger opportunity: "I was blown away when I met Robert from Sterns for the first time and he took me down into his vault. Original master reels stuffed into banana boxes, decades of vinyl, cassette tape and CD releases... history everywhere you looked. After exploring their vast catalogue and talking to Robert more, I felt like something could be done to bring some of their music and history into a new context and introduce it to new generations in the process."

The intricate kora playing of Dawda Jobarteh makes for a mesmeric trip on this debut release, with 'Sama Kebbalu' ('Tomorrow's Elders') given a peak-time workout that makes fine use of the rousing, chanted chorus and rolling rhythm, and 'Bright Sky Over Monrovia' cut into a dub that focuses on the stunning finger-picking and passes it through heady delays.

credits

released September 15, 2017

Mastered by Rob Small Mastering

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Ben Gomori / G. Markus London, UK

House music. DJ, producer, podcaster, label owner, event curator. Founder of Monologues Records and Pitchblack Playback. Fans of his music include Gilles Peterson, Disclosure, Honey Dijon, Optimo, Benji B, Dam Swindle, Hunee, Mano Le Tough, The Blessed Madonna, HAAi and Romare. ... more

contact / help

Contact Ben Gomori / G. Markus

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Dawda Jobarteh (Ben Gomori Edits), you may also like: