Comments on: Mohamed Merghani http://radiodiffusion.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/mohamed-merghani/ Radiodiffusion Internasionaal is devoted to the evolution of popular music from Africa, the Middle East, India and Asia and the proliferation of Western influences on these non-Western cultures. The focus is primarily the music from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s. Tue, 21 May 2013 13:12:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Hammer http://radiodiffusion.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/mohamed-merghani/#comment-1705 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:25:17 +0000 http://radiodiffusion.wordpress.com/?p=3618#comment-1705 Update:
-The founder’s son Mr. Mansour is said to be a shiek, or hajji Mansour nowadays, and has released some religious songs, and madayeh (adulatory music for the Prophet).
-Some of the early Munsiphone records (long-players, and EPs) came coloured as one collector told me, in red, yellow, green, and blue vinyl. Dunno if this is true as I haven’t seen a single one so far. The early vinyls were all black, and only those well-to-do were able to buy it back in 70′s Sudan.

Dig.

H.H.

]]> By: Hammer http://radiodiffusion.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/mohamed-merghani/#comment-1703 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:30:43 +0000 http://radiodiffusion.wordpress.com/?p=3618#comment-1703 Munsiphone was a Sudanese record label owned by Mohammed Ali Saad and his son, Mansour. They made music for most Sudanese pop singers of the early 60′s and Egyptian ones as well (Mohammed Wardi, Abu-Arky Al-Bakhiet, Khedr Bashir, Ibrahim Awwad, Salah Ibn-Albadyah, Al-Balabil, Mohammed Al-Amin etc… right to Umm-Kalthoum). Their recording engineer was a British gentleman called Andre Ryder. The label started issuing Compact Cassettes in the mid-70′s (Mohammed Al-Amin was I guess, their first induction of this technology), but sadly, the engineering mastery was low, and the quality of instrumentation was below par.
Other famous Sudanese record labels of the same time were Sudaniphone (owned by Hassan Mustapha Saleh), and Fonograph Dimitri Al-Bazar.

H.H.

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