Category Archives: Uganda

Akogo Dance – Inside The Studio

Akogo

Jack Davenport and Olie Halstead use the ‘Unique Sounds Of Uganda’ sample pack, we have created a dance track based around the Akogo and Adungu. Using Global Sound Movement‘s ‘Unique Sounds Of Uganda’ sample pack, Jack and Oliver have created a dance track based around the Akogo and Adungu. The Akogo is a an African thumb piano and […]

Traditional Ugandan Music and Dance Evening

Ndere Centre, Uganda

The Ndere Centre is known as the Home of Cultures and has ‘cultural nites’ throughout the week, which made it the right place to close the week. Bringing the week to a close, it seemed appropriate to spend our last night enjoying the traditional music and dance of Uganda. The Ndere Centre is known as […]

Bethlehem Orphanage

Bethlehem-Orphanage

The Bethlehem Orphanage is the sister home of the Good Shepherd,they care for over 300 homeless people, orphans and street kids and are run by the Missionaries of the Poor. The Bethlehem Orphanage is the sister home of the Good Shepherd, which we visited earlier on in the day. Between the two homes, they care […]

Kampala Christian Church

Sunday-Gospel

As Uganda is a religiously diverse nation, with Christianity and Islam being the most widely professed. It seemed appropriate to participate in something that is so wide spread throughout the country. To bring us to the end of the week, we chose to spend the last day engrossed Ugandan music and culture. To start it […]

Albert Ssempeke’s House

Albert-Ssempekes-House

Today was a sampling day, four of our audio engineers/producers and one of our photographers travelled to Albert Ssempeke’s house. To get the most out of our time in Uganda, the GSM team were split into two; this was partially due to space allowance in the musician’s house. As this was a sampling day, four […]

Nile Discovery Resort Beach

Nile-Discovery-Resort-Beach

The day was planned around sampling the environmental sounds of the Nile, with this in mind we travelled to the Nile Discovery Resort Beach. Located at the edge of the Nile. Throughout our stay at the Jinja Nile Resort, we were teased by the views of the Nile and decided to get a closer look. […]