Memorias Vol.1 – Bugandan Sacred Places – Adapted Sound Collage by Ross
Alexander
In 2016 I travelled to Uganda to play at the Nyege Nyege music festival, then in
it’s 2nd year. After the festival I stayed for a month at the Nyege Nyege artist
residence and travelled extensively in the region around Kampala. I researched
and visited a series of sites considered to be of historical and sacred
importance to the Baganda people who had founded the first settlements close to
the source of the Nile river which would go on to become the heart of the
Baganda kingdom. With the help of my awesome guides Richie T and Vincent I was
privileged to be able to visit lots of different sites from giant waterfalls and
caves to tombs, temples and sacred gateways. In some places these sites stood in
a natural or ‘preserved’ condition and in some a mall had been built where once
was a ancient site. At most ...
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