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Recordist's notes
… I had been starting the recording somewhere in the middle of talking to Jimmy, so here Jimmy describes Ato’s performance in more detail… the entire conversation with Jimmy is archived at: http://www.archive.org/details/NairobiConversations clips from the recording are also remixed in a “road movie” called “Sauti Nairobi”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ_SH1KHWuA
About the place
Nairobi is a city of about 4,397,073 people in Nairobi County, Kenya. OttoAnna lists 4 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “GoDown Art Centre, South B, Nairobi, Kenya - What culture are we talking about...?” by radio continental drift – CC BY-SA 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0