Permanent Archive of East African Music

Permanent Archive of East African Music is a collection of vast amount of audio and video recordings through a project known as Singing Wells Collection. The collection is done through a mobile studio which allows the team to record audio via eight different professional quality microphones and video with three HD cameras.

Following each visit, material is post produced to provide an archive of audio tracks and videos. The team is in contact with The British Library about adding the Singing Wells collection to their archive of World and Traditional Music but they are also endeavor to make their recordings accessible to the widest possible audience of musicians, music lovers and ethnomusicologists.

The first field visit made by the team was in March 2011 when they travelled from Nairobi to the Kenyan coast to record the music of the tribes of the Mijikenda. Since then they have completed more field visits in both Kenya and Uganda.