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. 

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Arusha Poetry Club

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Arusha Poetry Club 

George Kyomushula

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