Geoffrey Oryema CDs

African Odysseus
(2002)
 

Night to Night
(1997)

Beat The Border
(1993)

On this Album, the Powerful Roots of Geoffrey Oryema's African Heritage have a More Subtle Influence on his Music. One of the Cornerstones of this Recording is French Guitarist Jean-Pierre Alarcen, who wrote the Music for 'hard Labour' and Co-composed 'the River'.

Exile
(1993)

At the Age of 24, at the Height of Idi Amin's Power and Following the Death of his Father, a Prominent Government Minister, in a Mysterious Car Accident, Geoffrey Oryema Had to Be Smuggled Across the Border in the Trunk of a Car, Thus Beginning a Life in Exile. Today his Songs Keep Alive the Languages of his Youth - Swahili and Acoli and Return to the Lost Country - the 'clear Green Land' of Uganda.

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