Uganda: From Kadongo Kamu to Digital Recording

Without a trace of doubt, the way sound music has been packaged today in comparison with yesteryears, there has been a great leap in the quality and how that quality has been arrived at.

From the late 1960s up to like late 80s, most of the sound was scratchy and it was common knowledge to any music aficionado that many Ugandan artistes at that time would just hold a guitar horizontally, maintain a steady drum beat with their elbows while picking out ever changing bass lines, riffs and cross rhythms to accompany their singing voices and mischievous story telling. These artistes coined their style of music as Kadongo Kamu (figurative for one guitar) and the way the music was recorded reflected its quality.

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