Kithara is a duo that has emerged from the Culture Musical Club, the most famous orchestra in Zanzibar, which has dedicated itself to taarab for over half a century. A point of encounter between oriental music and African rhythms born at the end of the 19^th century, the taarab spread in the form of amateur clubs with a pronounced social role in which sufism also played its part. Over musical arrangements with a
symphonic orchestration inspired by Egyptian musical comedies, the Kithara offers a taarab with Latin-American or Indian influences, the inheritor of this spirit of social solidarity that favours tales of courtly love, jousts and poetic ornaments.