Dooyo
The closing track of Volume 5, the song that sent Mogadishu crowds into a frenzy.
Dur-Dur Band, from Volume 5 (1987)
It closes Volume 5, and the label released it as a free stream and download in January 2013 ahead of the album, which OkayAfrica described as funk-influenced Somali pop. In an NPR interview broadcast on May 5, 2013, Kelly McEvers spoke with Sahra Dawo and Abdinur Daljir in Columbus, Ohio, through an interpreter; Dawo singled out "Dooyo" as the song that reliably whipped Mogadishu audiences into a frenzy, with fans dancing so hard some fell down, and encores three, four, five times sometimes. Music Is My Sanctuary calls it a strong groove with very low sound quality, from the cassette source. One search summary gives the title as meaning healer, which we could not verify elsewhere. We found no writing credit, track time, chart history, covers or samples.
Sources
- A funky-fresh sound from Somalia, with a political history, NPR / KUNC (2013-05-05)
- Dur-Dur Band's 1980s Somali pop, OkayAfrica (2013-01)
- Dur-Dur Band, Volume 5, Music Is My Sanctuary
- Dur-Dur Band, Wikipedia