Noori & His Dorpa Band — Saagama (Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast)

The second single from our upcoming record Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast by Noori & His Dorpa Band. Pre-order (LP / DL / Stream): Listen to a preview of all tracks: Read the full story: OUT June 3 on Bandcamp / June 24 everywhere else. A soundtrack of Sudan’s revolution and the first ever international release of the Beja sound, performed by Noori and his Dorpa Band, an unheard outfit from Port Sudan, a city on the Red Sea coast in eastern Sudan and the heart of Beja culture. Electric soul, blues, jazz, rock, surf are all grounded by hypnotic Sudanese grooves, Naji’s impeccable, haunting tenor sax, and of course, Noori’s tambo-guitar, a self-made unique hybrid of an electric guitar and an electric tambour, a four-string instrument found across East Africa. A truly ancient community, Beja trace their ancestry back millennia. Some say