Burundi Black has been played on NTS in shows including Bahamian Moor, featured first on 12 February 2015. Songs played include Burundi Black (Part 1), Burundi Black I and Burundi Black (2ème Partie).

In 1967 Sevac Ekian recorded a ceremony of Ingoma Tribe in the East African State Burundi. Back home he developed the idea to arrange a "musical marriage"(mariage musical). Therefore he asked the producer Mike Steiphenson to create a fitting tune to those absorbing drums he brought.

Steiphenson produced a psychedelic harmony consisting of e-guitar and piano and inserted it in Ekian's recording.

In 1971 the track was published under the pseudonym Burundi Black. On…