The album that definitely changed my life. I travelled to East Africa for the first time in 2008 to create the soundtrack for the choreographer Angela Guerreiro. The project took me to Addis and Nairobi. In Nairobi, I met Johannes Hossfeld – the former director of the Goethe-Institut Kenya. He invited me to come back a year later to work on recordings with musicians from Nyanza – the region around Lake Victoria – and from the coastal region. These experiences blew me away. For example, I’ll never forget the day I met and recorded with Ogoya Nengo. The album received very positive reviews and won an award. I continued to work with Kenyan artists and today I am more or less based in Nairobi.
My favourite track:
Paperflowers

https://svenkacirek.bandcamp.com/album/the-kenya-sessions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql9WMT3XwAg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIDyRE9zjAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkvTQp3Nq5c