In Uganda the project filmed and recorded 5 musical groups: Siraje, Nakibembe, Niro Beat, Watman, and Sampeke.

Siraje is made up of Banyumba people from Jinja, and takes its name from its leader. The group consists of various sized ngomas (drums), nyanele (one-stringed bow), Amadinda (xylophone) and tsa tsa (shakers).

Nakibembe takes its name from the members’ tribal group, the Kibembe. The village of Iganga, where these musicians live, is remote and hard to reach, but there we were rewarded with the wonderful sight: a giant amadinda at least 30 feet long that is dug into a carefully measured pit in the ground, so the Earth itself is the resonator. The Kibembe people say that this was the first of all amadinda.

Niro Beat represents many different musical traditions and performed 12 different dances from tribal groups throughout Uganda. The instruments used for these dances included the sansi (thumb piano), the amadinda, the nyele and the ngoma.

In Kampala, recordings were made of an Acholi group called Watman, and a Bugandan group called Sampeke. (The Acholi were living in the ghettos of Kampala because they had been misplaced by civil unrest still going on in the Acholi homelands.) Watman played a wide variety of instruments, including harps of different sizes, called kadogo, that were played in ensembles of 8 at a time, with the various ranges covered by each instrument, the most impressive being the giant double bass, at least 8 feet long.

Sampeke was reputedly one of the only groups that still played the royal Bugandan court music, traditionally played for Uganda’s kings and now considered to be dying out, though it can be argued that even Sampeke is playing a lesser version of the royal music that is not totally authentic. Sampeke used the the nyele as well as flutes called kangoro, and ngoma  - the Bugandan people are known for their complex rhythms played at break-neck speeds.