Showing posts with label Le Grand Utalii Band. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Le Grand Utalii Band. Show all posts

Sunday, December 20, 2015

TAARAB MUSIC: Le Grand Utalii Band's Riziki Haina Mwenyewe

Taarab is African music unique to the East African coasts of Tanzania and Kenya, and to the nearby islands -- particularly Zanzibar and Pemba, and even Lamu.

I just wanted to share with you this LeGUB production titled (in Swahili) Riziki Haina Mwenyewe -- roughly translated, I think with a naughty wink or tongue in cheek -- or tongue jutting right out of the corner of the sayer's mouth -- as "Livelihood Has No Owner".

Riziki Haina Mwenyewe is an extended fare (all of 9:45 minutes), published on April 9, 2015, and with 2,408 views so far. It's served by wholesomely endowed divas in colorful costumes that freely and gracefully billow in wind, and whom few have ever heard of. Till now, I suppose. The loss has surely been theirs -- those who have never heard it. Till now. But no more.

The band, too, you will notice, gives the song an abundance of soul. The sum effect of everyone's effort is a wholly enriching experience.