WHERE DID GOOD QUALITY MUSIC GO ?

WHERE DID GOOD QUALITY MUSIC GO?

First comes first im not real really old school boy of late neither late 60’s, 70’s 80’s but im kind of old school fan 90’s music , cause I was born in late 1986 November 30th. But I cant deny I grew up listening most of the western,and African music at that time of my early age through motivation of my father, whom was in love of his records ( old version of cd’s )

At that time he has one of his best expensive music system which helped me to memorized most of the genres of music from Choir, Lingala, Phunk, Jazz , Soul, Rock & Roll to Rhythm and Blues to Hip Hop. My father music systems got me be a huge fan of music, most of the songs at that time were hardly to be memorized by its name, unless if you are grown up enough and know how to read and write. I believe I started memorized songs from my father’s collection since I was atleast 5 years old, when we were living at Keko freights neighborhood. Because there are some of the song which can be played at the meantime and win to get my intentions like “ I remember this song when I was very very young boy “ for example A lingala song from Congo Kishansa , sung by Mpongo Love  called Ndaaya, it really really reminds me of my childhood.

MUSIC WORLDWIDE TASTED DIFFERENT 

Im grown up now 28 years old, proudly father too I start wonder music all over the world were tasted different compare to how it does taste at the moment, I remember when Jackson Five songs used to be popular to my generation too, sung along Michael Jackson songs in our own swahili version me and late sister Joyce ( R.I.P )  when we were hitting the road to school Keko Magurumbasi Primary School, at that moment, still you could sing different and taste different when you hear songs o Tshalla Muana, M’bilia Belli, Monique Sekka, Marijani Rajab, DDC Mlimani Park, etc 

Life was very beautiful at that time when good classic music was everywhere in the world, I remember when I was in my 6years old me and my father we went to see the fight of Rashid Matumla ( Snake Boy  ) at Gerezani and he won, we were so happy, my father carried on his shoulders, my lap wrapped his neck ,my baby hands hold his baldhead cherish the moment and the song of Pepe Kale - Rodger Miller was blasting in the hall and the arena was full crowded with people, hardly seen my uncle Deogratius Kyomushula, whom was an assistant of his friend boxer Rashid Matumla.

It was a great memory cause when we get home through my father motorcycle I had the best night storytelling my mom and my sisters about how it was. I came to the sense music helps tighten memory when I kept heard the song of Pepe Kale over and over but still I couldnt know what its name because I was young enough to get names of the songs and their lyrics. But thanks to the internet i can watch them now on youtube and share the glimpse of my childhood memorylane.

Music of that time was strongly produced in quality despite the fact they were not in an era of science and technology, when seamen comes from the long trips used to comes with such records of Milli Vanilli, Commodores, Jackson 5, Madona etc and my father through his connections used to own some records and invite his friends, family at home play his joints and have a nice meal during sundays, I still remember those days through musics when i luckily hear them play out online, or on flash back radio programs.

MUSIC WAS GOOD AT THAT TIME WHY IT AINT SO GOOD THIS TIME ?

Like I said before, Im not that old school cat in music from 1960’s or something but I heard most of music when i was teen age in my early 1990’s , and most of the music I heard were Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Hi Hop, Bongo Fleva, Lingala, etc which means I can tell the difference between good music of that time when i was real into music of those artists across the world to these new school artists. I came to see its taste aint the same start from the bottomline of how it does produced, promoted, distributed etc

Im pretty sure when whats called old school musics,were produced it was pretty hard to finish the record within a day due to the fact that everything has to take place at a particular with specific plan, Producer whom was producing songs of Juwata Jazz Band for instance used to take his time much more as A current producer in 2014 . I wish to know why it was like that during late 60’s - 90’s and it isnt the same at the current time ? If it was still analog system on music making and it got well produced talented songs from those artists how does it seems so rough and hard to be made in the meantime ? and what amaze me all over the world the quality of music was superb excellent, if U.S had great band like THE WHISPERS  still in Africa there were great bands too like Sikinde Ngoma Ya Ukae, great singers like Marijani Rajabu, Res Wanyika etc , when U.S had the best hip hop clue like Wu Tang still in Tanzania we had the best one too like KWANZA UNIT , I get lost how does it be different at once in all across the world ?

Now we have mimic singers, whom truely dont know how to sing but get promoted their butts off, im writing this article Oliver Ngoma on the back ground with his song Nadia, it make me wish there could be another means to express what i want to write but i feel i cant, Music which used to make us memorize most of the events on how life, seems its no longer existed, I dont even remember the best song when I graduate secondary school during our graduation, im sure there was A popular song at that time but how cant it be so chap chap to reminisce through songs? if it happen to me A person who graduate in mid 2005 when it will happen to the generation of next 20 years when the music they listen is electronic, no drums, nobody to pull the strings no melody.

I wish could have answers the reason of fallen down the good classic music to rise of the crap music, type of music which emphasize sex and crimes, drugs and prostitution which we really see as good music at the meantime esp if you didnt get a chance to taste the good music of that time of the era of Etta James, Pepe Kale, Zaiko Langalanga, Renee Ramila , Mbaraka Mwinyisheh etc, Now A rapper with his piggy banks like Rick Ross comes on stage through wheelchair, A lazy bones with full of tats ,chest out sun goggles in the club and still sing his song with an assistant of Play Back cd and we call that good music?? come onn mayn.

HOW DOES NEW SCHOOL TYPE OF MUSIC HAS TO BE RELATED WITH HOMOSEXUALITY ?

What I also dont understand it the way this new school music portray homosexual as identification of beautiful or term of being cool handsome ,sexy or whatever. You find A singer or rapper wearing purple skin jeans and sagging pant to see his pink underwear, that is A male singer doing that. Yet his lips has lip shinned,face full of make up singing and sounds as horny white girl,( no offense ) how can you sing A swahili song with A blonde british accent for heaven sake? Are those type of musicians our society truely wants? I remember watching TvZ ( Television of Zanzibar ) during 90s when Bongo artists used to go performing there, all the fans were sitting on their chairs as if its not A music concert but theatre, and I was like what the heck is long with these people? I didnt know that there are some of the customs we enforced to make ours, its too late now..If Zanzibar folks couldnt dig the music concerts at that time, we both cant dig how endanger we are by letting these purple skin jeans male singers/ rappers be role models of our children through the bubblegum music they are listening to.

I wish there could be any means necessary to evacuate the casualties of great talented singers remained to produce more great one, cause the way things are going good type of musicians whom can well sing, dance and play instruments will be only seen and told through museums that Tanzania, the world used to have very great conscious singers, rappers during late 1960’s - 19990’s , Asa sung A song FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN , we should awake before burnt alive since minority already sense the blue print of whom refers themselves as music industry stakeholders whom are nothing but undertakers who burns alive this sort of art. Tanzania is already in a wave of neutralize the talented ones in a form of controlled and shut the artists mouths so they can also be used to kill the influence of music for some political, administrative interest, We can see the best hiphop artists at that time whom are now being corrupted institutionalize the power of music on the particular society. 

Thank Yo

Arusha Poetry Club

Founder / Director 

Arusha Poetry Club 

George Kyomushula

+255717470007

POEM

POEM

I LOVE BEING BLACK 

July 27, 2014 at 9:40pm

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I LOVE BEING BLACK

I love being black , 

I will look great in all black as Big L /

picture me in my black shinny skin, 

hooked up with black toxido ,black bandana upon my head/

 killin em with A black Chucks attend funerial of Zionist Anti-black race /

Its good being black Yo/

black man unaware of whats called tan ,

sun can burn the hell on me but it will only brighten my chocolate pie skin to blown / 

hihihahaha

racist folks lynch us with such names as colored one ,

as if we do starving for the tan by BBQ ourselves out of the sun as colored ones,

so the skin could change from pale to blown /

 which it aint our thang go off the sun bbq our bodies just to suckin the tan /

No offense /

its nothing blessed on earth as being black / 

black is pride / black is industrization / black is population /

 black is Alfa and Omega generation / 

being black resulted exploitation / manipulation / segregation /

Funny thing about being black is misconception of being one /

 through self hatred black seems like A curse /

terminology like baah baah black sheep / 

black lie / 

black magic / 

black market and everything worse stands for blacks /

The world doesn't know being black is all about kindness/

faith , humble and loyal /

 kindness for them regarded as we just black sheep /

Telling straight up truth referred as black lie /

 strong faith which affiliates with none of their Saints ,called as black magic /

Hooked up one another between brother and brother sort of business without chained with their taxes/

 it is well known as black market /

I'm A blackman whom is capable of doing blackmarket in A five stars hotel/

  go out for dinner with my blackwoman/

I'm sure there are plenty fellow mellow blacks and yellow folks/

 who can be able to fly to the moon with fake passports and visa/

Black is beautiful ladies and gentlemen / 

black is intelligence not as they portray us with mechanism of ignorance /

 black is wealthy not poverty through imagination of starving children with houseflies running on their dirty faces /

Black is burning charcoal without exposing its smoke /

Black is hungry decent wolves in a zoo / 

reason why they put suveillance cameras everywhere we are so they could get the clue /

They refers us black as danger / 

reason why they do fear if we still have our ancestors payback slavery anger /

 being black its like being A baby bawbaw in desert surviving the drains off the rain /

From the roots to its leaves baby black has growing with pain /

surely none will see any of our tears, cause we do only cry when it rains / 

black is beautiful but it aint easy be one suckin milk from the belly of the beast, the best way we can /

©Kyomushula

ART OF POETRY

ART OF POETRY

Poetry is the art which has recently been forgotten in Tanzania, I remember back in 90’s when the poetry was pretty much useful in school syllabus of Tanzania educational system, I remember when poetry was used in primary schools to secondary schools during  school events , and special days when we used to have local and governmental visitors , school teachers used to influence students to write poems and songs to sing during the event.

Things has recently been changed since the poetry has been seen as A weapon for massive destruction world wide, as we could see an art of poetry has rarely being able to gets its artist to get paid, it rarely being able to create sort of employment within its members. We could see large companies even government sponsors and does invest other kind of arts to create source of income within the members of certainly art, i refers artists like musicians, martial artists, singers, actors etc but hard to find any of them invest in art of poetry, I wonder why that,but i hardly gets answers regards that.

I remember in late 2012,when I had meeting with poet laureate ,and author of couple books which has been useful in Tanzania school syllabus, Mwalimu Richard Mabala, as I like call him Mabala the farmer, He clarified for me straight on my face that poetry doesn’t pay ,try something else..I almost choked for disbelief cause I was enthusiastic explain to him how do I wish to create sort of an employment within my fellow poets under the influence of Arusha Poetry Club , by organizing events which will have fees of entrance enable to create sustainability within the poets who will get a chance to participate in Arusha Poetry Club weekly events, Mwalimu Mabala he wasnt against with my fellow poet Prof. Seth Markle who told me the same thing “ POETRY DOESNT PAY “ he also advise me to try do something else, I know it doesnt pay cause ever since I start make poems ,i dont remember if i ever get paid through it, even for 20USD ,apart from donations box that we set whenever we have poetry events, I simply I never called to sign contract to recite my poems in any events and be paid, all events that I attended were freewell events, which voluntary participated without being paid.

IS IT TRUE POETRY DOESNT PAY ?

I honestly disagree poetry doesnt pay cause I can see there is a fine line between POETRY and RAP, I see rappers, and hip hop artists,musicians get paid through an art of poetry, lets take a look of whats called R.A.P , it channeled with poetry as it is rhythm and poetry, whereby what A rapper presents has been formed by poetry rhythmic with new technologically melody (instrumental ) I could see myself ,and my fellow poets tried something like that, technological rhythmic to traditional rhythmic through xylophone ,drums, shakers , but still cant see no changes economically.

So why cant Poetry be able to flood the market with Poets/ Poetess sign contracts for the gigs as we can see musicians and other artists, My childhood friend Shah Mjanja once told me that its not my fault neither poetry is fault to enable brothers and sisters whom are committed in the art of poetry, he said “ most of the artists are not businessmen, neither unaware of the business rather that being focus on their arts and talents which enable them to create piece of arts which inspires their fans but fails to create market of their arts to pave the way of achievement which will support themselves economically, but most of the businessmen are aware of the business which they benefits from the arts of the artists whom are unaware of what they doing could be in a form of business “

INFLUENCE OF POETRY IN LATE 90’s

I believe the foundation of any success has to be formed from within, I can tell the foundation of art of poetry inside of my country Tanzania, at that time Tanganyika was a weapon used to fight the colonial era, poetry was an art which was used within our society to highlight things which were not well pleased the inferiors whom were fighting for freedom of their country, I also believe it was an art which was very annoying the colonial government too. The same art which was used to sing A song for unsung heroes, got them to regain the power independently from the colonialism. How could it be possible for the colonialists supports the art which was A threat towards their full control of whats called Tanganyika ?

So does that means the art of poetry which now don’t seems to be very important by the government which used it to regain the power from colonial government, is it the same art which still fight colonialism ? That simply means same art of poetry which was fighting for colonialism as mode of production is still fighting with Neo Colonialism as current mode of production,which oppress and exploits people in a modern way slavery.

Does that means , nobody seems to care about this art of poetry cause it the strong weapon which will take off them from power? Poetry is work of mind and consciousness , but it doesnt seems to be empowered by the same government to its people which it used the same form of art to achieve its independence from colonial era. That is why you no longer see poetry real emphasize students in schools to become poets, poetess. Thats why you no longer see schools dont organize Poetry Clubs in schools , competitions which will enable create strong poets , and poetess in the nation like Shabani Roberts, Sudi Andanenga, Charles Mloka, Kandoro, Makwaia ,etc

WHY POETRY SEEMS AS A THREAT ?

Poetry is an art of mind and consciousness in a form of literature, aim of emphasize society to speak whats on their minds, poetry aiming on entertaining , educating , and warning certainly of the things within its society. Poetry is only an art of revolution which does televized. Gill Scott Heron once said A revolution will not be televized , through an art of poetry which does televized. Poetry transparently speaks whats on the society minds and does warning it when it needed , is that the reason the system dont seems to upgrade it as an art which can provide mult millions dollars Poets ,whom are artists who televized their revolution ? so should we take that as A threat of Poetry which cant be able to sustainability its Poets economically ? Well I dont know,but as A poet I truely wish to see my fellow poets get paid through the art of poetry as other artists does, and my wish is to see my government support art of Poetry and its poets/poetess in the country, the same art which freedom fighters did used it to speak out oppression of colonial government during the colonial era.

Thank You

Contact

Arusha Poetry Club - Founder Co-Director

 George Kyomushula

+2557174700007

kyomushula@gmail.com