Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno Nairobi Rapasa is a singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist, music educator and contemporary dancer. He is an advocate of traditional music. He plays several indigenous instruments to East Africa. His principal instrument is nyatiti, an eight-string lyre which has traveled along the Nile with the Lüo community who plays this instrument and whose people have now settled along the shores of Nam Lolwe (known as Lake Victoria) where Rapasa is from. Through its storytelling, his music gives an insight into our ancestor’s wisdom and is very focused on this heritage. He has in depth knowledge and understanding of traditional music particularly from the Lüo customs. Yet he has researched nyatiti music in such a way that he is able to place it in the context of today’s music worldwide landscape. Rapasa experiments with the use of different scales ranging from the traditional minor pentatonic to the major diatonic scale which changes the approach to chords usage on nyatiti. He discovered that such use of the instrument broadens its musical spectrum. During his travels and at home in Kenya, the conversations that he has with the members of different communities, strengthens his own conversation with his nyatiti. For instance together they are crossing the boundaries to better understand the echo from his ancestors. Out now is his Ep-Songs Of Equality -Wan Kale and Tumetoka Mbali in collaboration with the University of York on the project Human Rights Defenders at Risk. Thu Tinda!!! Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno’s tracks 04 Thum Nyatiti 16bit Eq'd (2) by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2019-03-10T00:45:52Z 03 Aduogo Ka 16bit Eq'd by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2019-03-10T00:13:08Z 01 Wuoth (Superfly In Ciaro) 16bit Eq'd by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2019-03-10T00:04:31Z B2_NPRemix - Rapassa Radido Song_(Mastered_041018) by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2018-11-26T12:22:48Z B1_NPRemix - Rapassa Radido Nyangele_(Mastered_041018) by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2018-11-26T12:18:36Z Rapasa 6 - 5 REF by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2018-09-10T20:06:45Z Thum Nyatiti Remix by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2018-05-18T06:08:07Z Bura. by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2018-01-08T05:21:32Z Pamoja Mashariki. by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2018-01-08T05:18:18Z Thum Nyatiti by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2018-01-08T04:57:23Z
01 Wuoth (Superfly In Ciaro) 16bit Eq'd by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2019-03-10T00:04:31Z
B2_NPRemix - Rapassa Radido Song_(Mastered_041018) by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2018-11-26T12:22:48Z
B1_NPRemix - Rapassa Radido Nyangele_(Mastered_041018) by Rapasa Nyatrapasa Otieno published on 2018-11-26T12:18:36Z