ACHOLI FOLK POP

This mix presents the contemporary, 'digital/electronic' version of the traditional folk music of the Acholi people, a Luo speaking ethnic minority from northern Uganda and South Soudan.
This ultra fast music is generally played on weddings, funerals, ritual ceremonies and parties. The singer has an important role as a story teller and is backed by vocal ululating by female singers (long, wavering, high-pitched vocal sounds, opening or breaking up a song).
Typical traditional Ugandan acoustic instruments are the whistle, gourd, thumb piano, horn, xylophone, flute, bow harp, tube fiddle and trough zither. Nowadays producers combine/replace these instruments with the sounds of music software (synths, bass, drums...) into a new powerful version.
Compiled & mixed by dj LeBlanc (Rebel Up!)