Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique: Geoffrey Oryema (Uganda)

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The music of Geoffrey Oryema is of particular beauty. He has a style of his own, although influences of Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno can be heard. Using melodies from Uganda, as well as the imitation of the sound of the Likembe (or Lukeme) thumb piano, the feel of the music is rootsy, but at the same time accessible. Geoffrey Oryema left Uganda of the Idi Amin era in 1977 by hiding himself in the boot of a car. Before that, he learnt to play the Nanga (seven cord harp lute) from his father, and his mother, director of The Heartbeat of Africa, a dance group, taught him playing the Lukeme and the Nyamulere flute. He now lives in France.

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