'Love Again': C4Pedro and Sauti Sol Plead for Another Chance to Love

Love Again is a collaborative effort by two of Africa's top pop talents today: Angola's C4Pedro  (remember him in spectacular Spetxa One? and Kenya's Sauti Sol (remember them in iconic Sura Yako?). 

Not surprisingly, Love Again is a love song. It's sung with finesse, in a beautiful place. It expresses the yearning for a love once upon a time won, and then perhaps lost in unclear circumstances in the recent past. But, just possibly, it's ready for rekindling in the present tense -- even though Time flies, with who knows what consequences.

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Click to read the translated Lyrics for Love Again

So no one knows exactly what will become of this love. But that's no reason for not trying, and for not being a front-row witness to the 'pleadings'. The girl, in split images and slow-motion seconds, is loving all this attention and listens and listens with patience. The very Patience which might be a version of her first, or last, name.

She listens and flirts, away from all prying eyes, in a sun-shiny place; which is where dreams fly free and where desire hangs loose. Yes, no one knows yet what's up with Fate. All this could still come to naught, which would be tragic.

A Thought ~ 16: The Music Ramrod

Renaissance:Music must surely be a/the ramrod by means of which Africa will gain/regain its glorious place in the cultural world. And if not the world, the universe.

Spetxa One by C4Pedro                                                                

Kelele za Chura by Chege ft. Nandy                                                               

               

Leg Over by Mr. Eazi                                                                                                                         

King Kong Remix by Vector ft, Phyno x Reminisce x Classiq x Uzi                                                           

Nana by Diamond Platnumz ft. Mr. Flavour                                                                                          

Dorobucci by The Mavins (Don Jazzy et al)                                                                                  

Dance For Me by Eugy and Mr. Eazi                                                                                                                                                                                                         

MUSIC (Tanzania): Kokoro by Rich Mavoko ft. Diamond Platnumz

Kokoro has a dramatic sight and sound opening, ushering, it seems, some kind of in-your-face spinning and swaying force-field come, alas, to rearrange a few things. Which is what happens. A bathtub 'apparition' -- art imitating a life-form in turn imitating art -- happens. 

Kokoro, safe to say, is a concerted effort by two Tanzanian artistes of no mean repute to throw caution to the wind under the feigned cover of innocence, in Dar's staid and organized air; and to do something at once bold n rebellious n different -- p'raps as the starting point of a new normal, in the era of which 'apparitions' may walk free. Something, like, visually outrageous happens alright, for 40 or so discontinuous seconds (between 0:14 and 1:00 on the video). That, if you missed the point, is the very same 'app' of which we talk. 

What goes with it is this: a sly taunting of the invisible censor's partial and crooked eye with 'never-before-seen' -- never before! --public visuals of God-given mama's things; here even crossed at the tip with light-absorbing black prudence. The result of all this inner-outer turmoil gives us some idea of what Churchill meant when he described Russia, so long ago now, as a: "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". [I think the version of that saying that I first read or heard, so many years ago, was: "an enigma within a riddle within a puzzle". After decades of memorizing the wrong word-play, the correct quote seems so awkwardly awkward, pondering and prosaic, if you ask me].

Kokoro was published only on November 26, 2016, and already had 1,221,018 YouTube views very early on December 15, 2016. But there is debate and concern surrounding Kokoro, already, in Tanzania (click here to read a pertinent observation, para. 1-5). How deep the concern is no one really knows yet. But Diamond is a towering African icon, already; and has many options.

I spy a touch of Spanish (or Portuguese?) sounds from the guitar strings in Kokoro. And more. The vibes one gets from the instruments are at their core all, or mostly, rooted in the same place(s), it seems to me. But they blend nicely with the Tanzanian images, vocals and lyrics. And so, all in all, what we have is a very conscious but perhaps not so well articulated experimentation with something new. Time will tell. I sensed the same kind of thing, with different ingredients, in C4 Pedro's very special Spetxa One. So there's spreading 'ferment' across our continent. Mo power!

In sum: the lyrics of this song may sound tame, but far from it in fact. They are even raunchier that the tub 'apparition'. If you can read Swahili (click here and see for yourself). But the words have rhyme and do flow. They are undoubtedly poetic. The dancers do try out some really new moves, even inside all that twerking -- though quantity masks the innovative quality that should come to the fore.

Click on the icon below, and watch Kokoro:

MUSIC: SPETXA ONE by C4 Pedro

Spectacular's the word for C4 Pedro's (a.k.a. King cKwa) Spetxa One. It's a song of seduction -- it'll make the rooster turn pale with envy. It's a song for his -- this Angolan's, Everyman's -- Special One; a super-animated ballad, for sure. And it's spectacular in every dimensional space: The high-energy dance scenes, choreographed to the highest level of refinement -- as the ever-present camera eye, shadowing each unmissable move, nudges us in every instant to see --  the lyrics, C4 Pedro's dominant voice, the sunniest of atmospheres, the beat, the finely controlled tempo of sound and motion, the everything! It's a wonderful blend, shall we say in the end, of passion and nimble muscularity. 

HERE: Lyrics of Spetxa One



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