Who would expect the sound of Zumari horns sailing across the Danube stream at the opening ceremony of this years LINZFEST. The landing of two musicians from Zanzibar carried downstream on small boats by the fire brigade took many onlookers by surprise.
But for Shaaban Muasi Vuai aka Sekembuke and Hussein Fereji Azani aka Siga, the banks of the Danube are not an unknown territory. They have been here last year already for the Parade Linz09 when they sent their intriguing Zumari horn sounds up from Lentos museum towards the Pöstlingberg mountain. Now they are welcome back in Linz with a big applause – Karibuni!
This year they start an Austrian tour with Otto Lechner & Windhund musicians from Linz via Graz to Vienna as a kind of interlude to the forthcoming East Africa tour of the Windhund musicians in July. The journey of the Zumari horns will facilitate another encounter of diverse cultures, music worlds and people.