UNITED COLOURS OF AFRICA

Wazimbo was last spotted in the market with a half jack of jack!! is chico antonio certainly still playing Sunday sundown on Katembe Island, certainly still in the downtown penthouse apartment and making music. And surely Matuz as blind as ever, as honest as ever. And who is new on the scene? Rufus from Kapa Dech was playing some kind of jazz when he was in Cape Town. And how is the message in the music? Loud, proud and in that thunderous voice Phillipe Nasavelle sang the blues. And Celso Paco, drummer magnificent??

These guys stayed on camper sheets on cement floors when they hit Cape Town, and they did it with humility! Thank you.

See Chico Antonio and his band perform Sunday sea-side on Katembe Island (off Maputo).

		Come back those good old times when Maputo knew how to speak in Music!

The body of these recordings were made at the Cape Town Maputo festival. Here Chico Antonio blessed us with his natural ability. Isaq Matuz, the blind jewel of XaiXai performs alongside Zolani Mahola. He brought such Love from so far. Halleluiyah.

The show was sponsored to the tune of R40 000 by OudeLibertas Ampitheate Distell Marietha Chennels. Telkom ISDN Phuleng Khabutlane sponsored recording to the tune of R10 000. I hold the master.

And let us remember the great example of humanity set for us by Gito Baloi. Unfortunately it is on his grave that the resurrection of Mozambiquean music will be formed. How much he wanted to be a part of it and how much he was fostering a unity of expression across the region of Southern Africa. Alas another good man to be cut down by an aimless gunman armed with the foolishness of jealousy.

* I enter 2000 with Panthera Azhul to the Polano Hotel. Make contact with Leman Pinto. (Remember Mac saying in subsequent years, 'every album got to have a lemon!')
* Make way via Roland Hohlberg's confusion with LISBOA MATAVEL to JB Recordings.
* Javed Hassim shows an interesting catalogue including Radio Mozambique archives. Much understand business man. Made it from nothing, selling cassettes on the streats of Pakistan as a small boy.

* Return 2001 to the palace of Ana Karina
* Witness WAZIMBO at Africa Cafe.
* Travel to Katembe Island to meet Chico Antonio
* Interviewed and Entertained by Kapa Dech

2002 FEBRUARY 14TH IMPORT CHICO AND MATUZ TO CAPE TOWN FOR LIVE RECORDINGS

* The concept Maputo's Famous (shoe polish syndicate) is borne with release date July 2003. Travel to Maputo to stay with Chico and prepare agreements.
* South African companies show fear of JB recordings and blacklisted busInesses.

AND THUS COMMENCE A DELAY THAT DOES NOT DIMINISH THE POWER OF WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY!

The jazz scene in Mozambique