{"id":48293,"date":"2020-05-07T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=48293"},"modified":"2020-05-09T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T08:59:08","slug":"sharhabil-ahmed-the-king-of-sudanese-jazz-habibi-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/sharhabil-ahmed-the-king-of-sudanese-jazz-habibi-funk\/","title":{"rendered":"The King of Sudanese Jazz Sharhabil Ahmed reissued by Habibi Funk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The musician Sharhabil Ahmed is celebrated through a compilation of his tracks and archives entitled <em>The King Of Sudanese Jazz<\/em> via the Habibi Funk label on July 10th.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A pioneer of Sudanese jazz in the early 60s, Sharhabil Ahmed modernised Sudanese music by mixing Western influences and instruments with those of his culture: &#8220;<em>Haqiba music, you know, was traditional vocal music with little accompaniment beyond a tambourine. When our generation came in the 1960s, we came with a new style. It was a time of worldwide revolution in music. In Europe, the rhythms of swing and tango were being replaced by jazz, samba, rock- and-roll. We were influenced by this rejuvenation in Sudan, too<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1335420724\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/habibi-funk-013-the-king-of-sudanese-jazz\">Habibi Funk 013: The King Of Sudanese Jazz by Sharhabil Ahmed<\/a><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Habibi Funk label headed by Jannis St\u00fcrtz has therefore gathered the work of this king of Sudanese jazz to make a special collection.\u00a0His sound is described by the label : &#8220;<em>Sharhabil\u2019s sound feels more like a unique combination of surf rock, funk, Congolese music and East African harmonies<\/em>&#8220;. With seven tracks, the album is a beautiful tribute to this icon of Sudanese music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\"><em>The King Of Sudanese<\/em> will be released on July 10th on the Habibi Funk label. Check out the cover artwork above and pre-order it&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/habibi-funk-013-the-king-of-sudanese-jazz\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Read also :&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/habibi-funk-jannis-sturtz\/\">Habibi Funk, the label playing hide and seek in Medina<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2636e8ed-cover-1010x1010.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2636e8ed-cover-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2636e8ed-cover-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2636e8ed-cover-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2636e8ed-cover-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2636e8ed-cover-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2636e8ed-cover-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2636e8ed-cover-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2636e8ed-cover-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2636e8ed-cover-73x73.jpg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2636e8ed-cover.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The musician Sharhabil Ahmed is celebrated through a compilation of his tracks and archives entitled The King Of Sudanese Jazz via the Habibi Funk label on July 10th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[5384],"location":[8280],"yst_prominent_words":[10244,10225,10240,8447,10356,10229,10224,10295,10355,10230,10238,10228,10241,10243,10239,10237,8452,10223,10220,10294],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48293"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=48293"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=48293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}