2010 – 2011 The founder of Nedland Kultur, Sigbjørn Nedland, spent his teenage years in Mandal, a small town in the south of Norway. So did composer and musician Bjørn Charles Dreyer. Returning to his hometown after several years as one of the top musicians in Oslo, Dreyer composed a piece of music based on […]

2012 – 2013 Taarab is the music of Zanzibar. It is one of the very few music styles in Africa with an orchestral tradition. A taarab orchestra may consist of several violins, cellos, double bass, oud, qanun, dumbak drums and several other instruments, plus a choir and solo singers. Nedland Kultur has been initiating several […]

“Wow”, said Faith, “I seriously didn’t know we had this kind of music in Malawi. I was thinking it was only in Mali and Senegal and there that you would find such things”. We were sitting in a semi-circle, listening to recordings that no one had been able to hear for the last couple of […]

2013 – 18 IF YOU CLAIM YOUR HISTORY, YOU WILL OWN YOUR FUTURE A major part of Malawi’s musical heritage from the 1940s up until the late 80s rests in the archives of MBC, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation. The music has for years been inaccessible, and is in danger of extinction. Nedland Kultur and MBC are […]