Sep 19, 2007

Catching a Dalla Dalla in Stone Town

Before we left Indiana I bought a digital audio recorder, a Zoom H2. It has four built-in mikes and makes fairly high quality stereo recordings. We made a recording of the ambient noises in the market while we were waiting for a dalla-dalla ride home to Mbweni from Stone Town. The 509 Dalla-dalla to Chukwani goes through Mbweni, you can here the caller soliciting riders for Chukwani as well as music from the tape seller and other sounds of the lively outdoor market:

http://www.archive.org/details/CatchingADallaDallaInStoneTown

We'll be making more recordings as time passes.

1 comment:

jel said...

Chris,

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you (envision danny and robert, two famous opera singers entoning these words) Happy birthday dear Chris....happy birthday to you!

you are a gem,

love danny & robert

your site is cool