Rafsanjan Abbey Tatya
5 September 2008
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Album sales in Uganda are not something that moves artistes because a few of them gain from it due to piracy but when an album scores tremendously on the market then it makes the owner proud. So now you can guess why Mesach Semakula has been brimming over with joy these days.
According to Dick Productions, the company distributing his new album Mama Nzize, Semakula's album is the "best-seller at the moment." "The album is doing terrifically on the market with hundreds of cartons purchased daily," said Dickson Ssewankambo, who is the owner of Dick Productions shop, situated on Cooper Complex opposite the old Taxi Park . He added: "It must be the best-seller at the moment."
Meanwhile, now Semakula is planning to hold a show for the king of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. The concert dubbed, Nyimbira Omutanda (I sing for the king), will be held on October 17 at Hotel Africana and October 19 at Kiwatule Recreation Grounds.
Semakula will perform all the songs off the Mama Nzize album. Besides the title track Mama Nzize, the album also includes songs like Nyimbira Omutanda, Kooyige, Endongo and the tune for the little ones titled Baleke Bazanye (let the kids play).
Semakula is known for his rich, mellow voice, which harks back the audiences to a less explicit era in his songs of romance and desire and that's exactly what he exudes on this album.
An hour plus, the album contains 40 to 50 minutes of inspired Semakula with the singer dividing his time between story recitation and singing.
The album juggles the crossover and the genuine well, but generic concessions to contemporary band music that would do well from bedroom to sitting room to dining room and on a party to the nightclub.
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