Sesube
| Sesube | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | Sega Nyanza Benga |
| Cultural origins | Late 1990s, Kenya |
| Typical instruments | nyatiti accordion calabash percussion guitar bass guitar orutu |
| Derivative forms | Afro-fusion |
Sesube is a style of East African music that takes sounds and inspirations from local Kenyan communities, cultural styles, and languages and fuses those sounds with a European component. The sound is achieved by playing a variety of instruments, both traditional and modern.
History[]
The genre has immediate origins in the late 1990s with the creation of the musical group . The development of the definitive term was not until the late 2000s, as Yunasi band leader Erick Odhiambo[1] has mentioned. As claimed, the style grew out of a desire for a "Kenyan" national style of music".
Influences[]
The influences from sesube have arisen from "sega music from the coast, isikuti from the West, nyanza and benga from the Luo people.".[2] Additionally, the style has a distinctive "European component", mainly drawing from Western European pop and folk elements.
References[]
- Kenyan styles of music