FAVOURITE SOMALI PLAYWRIGHT/FAV SONG/FAV RIWAYAD

[X.Playa]

Wadhaf iyo Shinbiro War Isuma Hayaan. There is a reason for that somali play to be translated into 7 different languages.

[Galol]

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Lol! I feel exactly the same. When I hear songs like the haunting one you just mentioned a deep sense of homesickness engulfes me and it is not a nice feeling it is actually quite depressing. So me too I avoid them. Other songs that depress me include patriotic ones like Wadaniga Nacabka Nugleys raaca mar kama naxoo niyada ka adag...(Indhabur, 1977)

Nidar baan hore u galay niyadeydu waa meel haddii aanan soo noqon calankeyga nuuroow allahayow ku nabad geli(Indhabur? 1978). This had a particular poignancy because it was sung by the conscripts rushing to the Ogaden frontline as the tide was turning against us and we were running out of equipment. Thousands of course never did return.

Dadwynaha Hantiwadaadga..ee ku kal hoyda dunida hareereheeda hiil iyo hooba wadaaga(Cabdi Muximed Amin, 1976)

As for love songs, you just picked one seriously depression-causing one. I grew up with it and even then it was one focking black widow that song. Whenever I heard in mogadishu although I was having a great time in Mog, it still brought back deep memories of breezy nights in Burao as it blared from tea-house stereos. Another is meyaygi Cishiqigaa by Gacceyte sang by Magool "meyeygi cishiqigaa ii maansheeyoo ku meydhaye yaa i magansiineey"

DallaXafgarre

There is nothing Northern about Somali music. It may have started there but all Somalis contributed to it and enjoyed it. It seems you were just too young to remember the place. In many ways you are lucky.

For you it is like seeing ugly face of an old woman burnt by fire. It is normal for you because that is teh way you always knew her. But if you remember her when she was a beautiful maiden the pain becomes unbearable.

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I indeed remember that song. There were some vicious songs too. Like Samadiidow Dabin baa ku dhigan lagugu dili doonoo(how nasty is that?) and Afmiishaar midigta gooya gowrac mariya gaalshire ku xoora! The dumbness of it. You cut his arm off and then cut his throat. He is dead so why throw a corpse in jail? There was also Midab gumeysi diida! Dila! Dila! Dila! Good idea you might say but not on national radio man.

Whoever said I am 70..not far off the mark mate. Definetely feel like it sometimes.

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galol. i thought it was only me!

For some reason I can listen to old songs with new music, like Sahra Ahmed's latest album but I don't have the guts to listen to those same songs in their original format.

Patriotic songs are out of the question for me unless I am going to bed very tired that nite. Listening to them is self punishing to me.

[Galol]

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You are definetely not the only one. Nothing brings back memories more than music. I sometimes meet up with friends who are in my age group and after few pints we go to one of our homes(whomever is on good terms with the wife that week whhich usually depends how well did the viagra work) and we put on music from the 50s-80s. And then we avoid it for few months. Sadly the main `treasure trove' as we called him had recently become careless and started lending priceless tapes. You know how Somalis are with tapes and books and things. you will never see them again.

I too lost some stuff including a vinyl LP made in Aden in 1941 the only somali one I ever came across. How careless is that?

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Galol,
You remind me the horror-casting Radio Mogadishu.
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. Seeftii kacaankuna waa sideedii, isna seegi maysaan.

. Kii dhuumanaayee dhabarku muuqdow
waa dharaaraar lagu dhawrayo.

. Tacshiir baa idiin qoran, toogashaa idiin dhigan.

However, there were some Waddani (nationalism) songs I like.
These words are from a song about the writing of Somali language.
No many people know or can remember.

Taariikhda qarada wayn
Afkeenni ka qatanaa
Qaayaha uu leeyahay
Dunida ka qarsanaa
Qorrax baa u soo baxdoo
Mugdigii ku qoofallaa
Daahii ka qaaddee.

Qalinkaaga ii dhiib
Erayada aan kuu qoro
Qummaati uga bogo

Afkii qalaad ha moodin
Carrabku qaldi maayee
Sidii caanaha qurquriya.

What do you find it?

[Galol]

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BTW of the more `modern' singers I find Khadra Daahir the most powerfully sweet depression-inducing of all. She chooses her songs very very carefully by the sound of it.

Have you heard her `Webiga i sitee i walwaalayaa xagguu igu wadaa...imisuu waheey webi soo rogmaday igu daray badweyn waxna aanan noqon'(Lyricist?)

Axmed Ali Egal's `markii aan ku doortay dugsi aan ku mooday..adaan diir naxeynin waa taad i diidee..durdurkii markuu gudhay daaqsintii la sahansaday dabayluhu ku qaadee dib u noqo haddad tidhi u dulqadan maayee.." is haunting and is a Somali male version of `I will survive'