Chin Bees are an upstart group with all the self-assurance needed to get their voice heard on this increasingly star-studded continent of ours. Kababaye demonstrates that their art runs deep. It is only slightly less boisterous than Pepeta, but just as inspired -- and just as finely feathered. It is more thoughtful, and even more cerebral. But it's just as attuned to the dance-hall.
So we get this subtle idea that the group isn't ever going to be a flash in the pan. It does its thing with no iota of doubt. If that's subconsciously so, that's even greater. Kudos to the social environment which has obviously given them free rein to do their musical thing.
Kababaye goes on for 3:45 minutes, a duration which is longer than the emerging norm these days! Most probably, it's commerce, and commerce alone, that's spearheading the slide toward this new ab-norm.
Here are the Kababaye lyrics [Mostly in Swahili]
