Sudan

A 33-minute instrumental journey across Sudan — 5 cities in one continuous arc, from the Sufi zikr-trance of Omdurman to the western-savanna storytelling of El-Obeid. No vocals; pure instrumental storytelling.

Each track is composed from the music of its place: the ecstatic, accelerating zikr of Omdurman's Sufi heartland, carried on daluka clay-pot drum and Nubian tambour lyre; the golden-age jazz-haqiba of Khartoum, where Sudanese oud and accordion meet brass at the Nile confluence; the granite-mountain crossroads of Kassala, where Beja and Rashayda lyres trade triplet and 6/8 rhythms beneath the Taka peaks; the salty, resilient Hadendowa coast of Port Sudan, voiced by the basankob Red Sea lyre; and the earthy Kordofan folk of El-Obeid, with its rababa one-string fiddle and mardoum wedding-dance pulse.