Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 3, Part 3: Geoffrey Oryema

The third act presented here for Day Three of the Woodstock ‘94 Festival was Geoffrey Oryema. He was a musician from Uganda. He died of cancer in 2018 at the age of 65.

If you have never heard of him, don’t feel bad because he is one of the lesser known acts from this festival. He was included as part of a commendable effort to have more world music acts. He was part of a four act sequence called WOMAD. This was and still is a continuing series of tours started by Peter Gabriel designed to bring more world music to Western audiences. 

Out of the four WOMAD acts, I have only included two: this one, and the one I will be posting next. The two I didn’t include, Xalam and the Jeffrey Trio, are even less well known, their sets were shorter, and I just didn’t like them that much. I did like the two I included though. So if you want to try some new world music, give this one a shot. Be warned though that the songs are generally not in English.

This album is 30 minutes long.

01 Nomad (Geoffrey Oryema)
02 The River (Geoffrey Oryema)
03 Lapowony (Geoffrey Oryema)
04 Piri Wango Iya (Geoffrey Oryema)
05 talk (Geoffrey Oryema)
06 Ye Ye Ye (Geoffrey Oryema)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16761000/VA-WODSTCK94_8-14-1994_03GeffryOryma_atse.zip.html

Alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/oicEMxH4

The cover is from this exact concert. Unfortunately, it's from a YouTube video, and the resolution is rather low.