Few Ugandan albums have been better titled than lawyer Oscar Kihika's first, his jazz album Introspections. Introspections is inward turning, showing a side of the former Uganda Law Society president few outside his immediate family up to now have had a chance to witness.

Kihika himself admits that most of this music was first created for his own consumption.

"It is not music I would just wake up and compose."

Deeply personal as this album is, it gets even more personal when you learn that Kihika would never have decided to master this album for public release on his own. The late great Sanyu FM presenter DJ Bangi for one was one of the people most responsible for pushing Kihika to finally out his musical endeavours.

Bangi had one compelling argument Kihika could not counter: "Why don't you let other people hear it?" Bangi, like Kihika's wife Dorothy, his business partner Ebert Byenka, and even Kihika's own father John Kihika had heard enough of it to believe in Oscar's talent more than he dared believe in himself.

It seems to have taken the passing of some of these pillars of Oscar's emotional life like Bangi and his own father to spur him into finally putting out Introspections.

He could no longer convince himself that because the jazz genre he loves is different from the common music that you hear, it was good enough reason to keep the music to himself in his home based Toto Studios. Although he reveals that, "I used to compose on weekends," and he needs to be, "In the zone," to compose, two years after he set out to compose a body of work for an album, it was about time.

After all, he has more or less been a music enthusiast - from age 9. After all this is a musician who from about the age of 10 was composing music under the influence of Jimmy Cliff, Phil Collins and the Bee Gees.

"But it was first hearing piano player Richard Claiderman when I was in school, and later on I was introduced to Yani by the late Bangi that kind of spurred me on to try and play like them," the high-flying lawyer said.

Although he cites his father John as a major influence on his musical aspirations, his father never let him slack on his formal academic pursuits. Oscar in fact explains that he has been able to pursue a thriving legal career and music as a hobby because of the upbringing.

"I was introduced into the world of music at 9 years old but my parents always insisted I pay attention to the world of books."

He adds, "I was born at a time when education was more wholesome. It was not just about passing exams. In fact I'm also a sportsman. At a young age I was into table tennis. I was seeded No.6 in 1981 in the country. I also played basketball for my school Caltec Academy where I did my A levels. I still play squash and until recently I was into golf a lot."

But if he always had to divide his time amongst so many tasks, Introspections does strike one as one more task Oscar had to get out of the way.

"Introspections can be played for easy listening. It is that kind of laid back music," is how Oscar characterises the various moods he was in as he crafted this album. The 11-track album is an expression of feeling and is open to interpretation.

"The songs recorded on this album highlight my growth and internalizing of life through experiences we all go through like love, loss of family and friends, ambition and realization of self."

Introspections will officially be launched this April.