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Birigwa

Birigwa has been played on NTS in shows including Wiggly World w/ Heaty, featured first on 28 August 2022. Songs played include Uganda.

Originally released in 1972, this album by the Uganda born Birigwa is one of the most unique and hard to categorize albums of afro-folk-jazz-blues-psych we've ever heard. Birigwa came to America to study at the New England Conservatory in the early '70s when he made this beautiful record, which falls somewhere between Tropicalia, pastoral South American psych, spiritual soul-jazz and eclectic blues, accented by his super versatile vocals which swing freely from deep to falsetto, playful to wonderfully weird to downright pretty….

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Uganda
Birigwa
Seeds1972
Uganda
BirigwaSeeds1972
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