desirePlate 047 · Zanzibar City, Tanzania

Stone Town of Zanzibar

A stone town of carved doors and slave memory, a port that was an empire's porch.

19th c. · Omani and Swahili builders · Africa

The chamber score

Taarab, Kijiti

Zanzibar · Swahili coast

Stone Town already had an orchestra. It arrived by dhow.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The UNESCO Stone Town, among the great Swahili urban fabrics.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Stone Town of Zanzibar through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Stone Town of Zanzibar was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.