sudanese music & Ethiopian performing 19

Sudanese pop music has developed rapidly during the fifties, the sixties and the seventies. The Sudanese music is based on the so called pentatonic scale: scale with 5 notes to the octave, like the black notes in the piano ( in contrast to an heptatonic,7 notes, scale like the gypsy or Egyptian scale. It is similar to the Scottish, Chinese and Porto Rican music. Celtic folk music, American blue music are also pentatonic scale music.
The Sudanese music influence has reached neighbouring countries such as Ethiopia, Somalia, Chad and Eritrea.
Contemporary music in Sudan might be a potpourri of diverse traditions, but it has emerged as a unique blend, with a character all of its own. Sudan has rich and mosaic culture reflected by its folk music. Each region knows its original music. Yet the base remained the same. Not only the rhythm and the melodies do not differ much, but the instruments and the lyrics are in the same line. The tambour (a lyre), and the drums are used in most of the regions. When the oud was imported from Arab Countries it replaced the tambour.
Modern rhythms relating to popular and soul music using for the first time electric guitars, double bass and brass instruments was introduced. Sharhabil Ahmed and his Band was a leading figure in this trend of music. He introduced for the first time rhythms relating to soul music using electric guitars. The Rastafarian Reggie of Bob Marley, James Brown lyrics are inspired many performers like Kemal Keyla. The most notorious influence was that of the British brass military bands, referred to as Jazz in the Sudan. Yet it is not related to the American style of Jazz. Sharhabil Ahmed Band might be counted with this style of music.
Sudanese list of musicians and artists include duos and groups. The most prominent are the female Sunai el Nagham, the male Sunai el-Asmaa, and the Balabil band formed of three sisters during the 1970s became very popular across East Africa.
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