
After reports went on that she was happy and ready to be a
mother – painting her belly proved that she indeed enjoyed carrying the little
one (Zivile).
Camagwini,
whose name reflects Africans’ connection with spiritual divine
intervention and ancestral worship. Camagwini will stop at nothing in
ensuring that her presence, both in the physical and through her vocal
delivery of her soul but Afro-rooted music, is felt throughout the
music world and resonates through rivers and valleys of eMzansi. (SEE HER BELLY BELOW)
Camagwini, truculently shy and purposely truant
and withdrawn, until her soulful and ancestrally textured voice
challenges the listener to pay attention, is a breath of fresh air in
the South African music scene. Camagwini’s songwriting skills portray
her as an orator and a culturally relevant young artist whose
compositions show an uncompromising attitude and conviction to her
Xhosa and true African heritage.
Camagwini who writes and brags about African
beauty of the soul and shades of blackness, and who finds solace in
African (s)heroism and black pride whilst challenging those who lack
rhythm in their black souls, poses serious introspection to skeptical
musicologists who thought new age songwriting lacked depth and
inspiration.
Camagwini’s music influence and her comfort in
soulful interpretations of Afro-traditional comes from observing,
participating and interpreting Xhosa folklore songs performed by elderly
women of her village in the rural Eastern Cape and transported by
migrant workers to the city of Port Elizabeth where she grew up in the
township of New Brighton.
Armed with these folklore, legends, customs and
tradition, Camagwini took this truly African experience with her to the
City of Johannesburg and decided to enter the highly competitive the
music industry, which already has been graced triumphantly by her peers
to record her debut album ‘Zivile’.
The Album: - Produced
by the Award Winning Producer, Malambule (producer of double platinum
and multi-award winning artist, Thandiswa) and founder of Native
Rhythms Productions, an album of this nature only takes vision, passion,
hope, belief and the need to create music that is not a regurgitation
of stuff the industry has heard before. The album is an Afro-soul
dish spiced with various elements from the world’s leading musical
ingredients, i.e. soul, Afro-jazz, classical, Maskandi, Xhosa
traditional and even Indian Bangra music: it is a fusion of everything
beautiful about sound.
Recorded by South Africa’s best and leading
session artists, such as Fana Zulu Jimmy Mngwandi, and Mlungisi Gegana
all on Bass, Kwazi Shange on drums, Tlale Makhene on percussions,
Gabriel Stuurman, Luyanda Madope and Victor Mbotho all keyboards, brass
section by Sphamandla Bhembe, Jeff Nomvete, and Jabu Mdluli, Bulgarian
led string section by Strings by Miro Chakaryan (Violin), Melale Mantu
(Violin), Susan Mouton (Cello); with leading female backing vocalist
Khululiwe Sithole, Siphokazi Maraqana, and Sipho Sithole (not
Malambule).
The album is traditionally laced with the melodic sound of
the Maskandi guitar by Nothi Ntuli and concertina by Zaba ‘Skhindi’
Zondi whilst Steve Zulu and Joel Klein give the album a nice fusion of
Afro-soul and jazzy played acoustic and electric guitar(s).
It is beautifully crafted to appeal to the world
music lovers who have an appreciation of artistic expressions with a
cultural twist to it, whilst remaining truly global in style. Listeners
will find a favourite song throughout the album and would most likely
confuse the album as a compilation of Camagwini’s greatest hits whilst
it is her debut album after all. Be Inspired! Be Very Inspired!
By Staff Reporter
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