At TEDx Mogadishu, Ostinato Records founder Vik Sohonie argues that reviving and internationally releasing Somali music from the 1970s & 1980s can help restore and rebuild the cultural confidence and historical grandeur of Somalia after two decades of civil war. Vik Sohonie is the founder of Ostinato Records, which seeks to capture the music of misunderstood cultures that have experienced trauma of displacement. Vik has worked in Haiti, Cape Verde Islands, and recently Somalia to study and preserve music that often sits untouched and inaccessible in archives. He has digitized a significant portion of the Red Sea Foundation music archive, which contains a collection of close to 10,000 recordings, making it the largest Somali archive of its kind.
