The Swahili Experience
The Swahili experience is an audio music compilation of live recordings of activities from artists and bands tat visited our art centre in East Africa. The recordings took place in Arusha, Tanzania during rehearsals,jams and sometimes just an artist playing with an instrument and be creative, in our resident yard. The recordings were made with a mobile recorder and mastered in Swahili Records Hamburg.

Swahili Xperience Volume1.
In this special release we focus on our artist in Arusha, a northern city of Tanzania where tourism is the major mean of income. Due to covid 19 pandemic our artists from Arusha were affected more as music performances and workshops were their only way of income. This edition presents an experience we had with Swahili Sound System Band. All songs and performances are original materials written and composed by the band members.
As Tanzananian are very proud people, we decide to share with you our experience with the artists in our centre and collect a donation for Swahili Sound System Band to go through during Covid 19 pandemic.
Swahili Sound System Original
Swahili Sound System Band is an acoustic music band, which writes and plays its own compositions of traditional Tanzanian tunes, such as “Mdumange”, “Sindimba”, “Ukala” etc., fused with Cha-cha, rumba, afro beat and urban music like hip hop and reggae.
The band has formed late 2013 downtown Arusha, Tanzania, as part of musical movement project sponsored and organized by Swahili record label. After recording their EPK album that carries songs like „Sina ndugu” (all alone), Sindimba” and “Mdumange”. The band is active in the region. The band‘s rhythm is mellow percussions, drove by heavy bass and deep poets with either local and international influenced message. Popped up here and there with melodic trumpet, the message is to promote tradition and culture but still maintaining the times and position held by Africa to the rest of the world. The force behind the band is strong due to the profile

and experience of its members. The members that makes Swahili Sound System Original as seen on the picture above are as follow (L/R)..
1. Hamza Lukta – Percurssion, Guitar/ Bass/Vocals/ Composer
2. Mikidadi a.ka Ras Micky – Percussion/ Bass /Vocals
3. Jose – Trumpet/ Vocals
4. Ras Kalumba – Percussion/ Rap
5. Ras Katanga – Guitar/ Vocals
6. Manuuh Swai – Percussion/ Vocals/ Producer
7. Babuuh Mollel – Cameraman
Swahili Sound System Academy is made by young new member who were in the picture below in the middle is Bonga(R.I.P)Percussion/ Vocals/ Composer and at right is Kapondo – Percussion/ Vocals/ Composer