Thursday night we were hanging out at the Market Theatre in
Joburg for Kabomo’s third album launch Sekusile. And what a ball we had.
A bit of a background about Kabomo, he is a bit of a jack of
all trades and surprisingly mastering all of them. He is an award winning
Musician, a Writer and an Actor who hails from Daveyton in the East of
Johannesburg, it turns out he is a comedian as he had us in stitches the entire
night. He released 2 albums already All things grey and Memory Remain.
Now the night was star-studded but as you can see from the
pictures we took the Bae and I are celebs in our own right so we did not want
to come across as groupies. The event started off with a young lady (whose name
I did not get because Dj Cleo kept poking me and it pissed off my Mr so he had
to bring him to order) who recited 2 beautiful poems on called “Black Women
Plotting”, obviously the main act Kabobo serenading us as he had the likes of
Moneoa, Brian Themba, Chad Saaiman, Kelly Khumalo and many more hahaha.
3 Things Interesting about this album:
- It was recorded with live instruments, no computerized lepapata was featured here all authentic
- The entire album was written in Zulu(Although he s of Swati origin) , A Zulu love letter as refers it
- There are no features not even a single one on this album (“so they don’t eat his money” said my Mr)
The first single ‘BHUBESI’ is a plea to the gifted, which is
ultimately wonkumnuntu, to not give up on their predestined vision. It is a
plea to the dreamers, to keep their eyes on the prize. And that even when there
are stones thrown at them, even when they get ridiculed, even when no one
believes in them, they must have a heart of a lion and fight for what’s theirs.
The album is currently live on ITunes for pre-order. His record label,
Universal Music, could not be more proud to gift the world with such a mature
and well thought of musical experience. See track list below:
- Khetha Mina
- Sizophelelaphi
- Bhubesi
- Hlala Nawe
- Amakhaza – my personal favourite
- Ungilande
- Isiphalaphala
- Ngisizeni
- Olungaka
- Ngezenzo
- Uyangihlanganisa
Thanks to My Photographer My better Half.
Here are the images:
BY: The Fixer
