Abdulsalam El Haj has been collecting Sudanese music cassettes since high school. After school, he hangs out in the old shops of the Omdurman souk, the historic heart of the capital, or with old labels where he collects the latest cassettes of his favorite artists such as Mahmoud Abdelaziz or Shaharbil Ahmed. This habit quickly becomes a passion for collecting and documenting the musical history of Sudan. In 2013, the cassette industry gradually disappeared, and with it a section of Sudanese music hitherto recorded on…
