Uhamiaji

"Msafiri Zawose is the latest offspring of the Tanzanian musical family Zawose (...), and like his father Hukwe before him, he's eager to get out there and mix it up ... It's a lovely album, at times gently trance-inducing, at others edgier and more challenging. There are some sweet melodies and interesting textures and in spite of the mix of moods and musical cultures, it sounds like a distinctive whole. A genuine meeting of minds between musicians from very different places".

"[Hukwe Zawose's] son here teams up with Sam Jones of SoundThread to bring the distinctive [Wagogo] lope and twang into the 21st century, setting out their stall immediately on "Nzala Urugu", which opens with booming percussion and a quick chant, before being interrupted by the plucking of the metal keys of a chirimba and the wail of a izeze ndogo (a two-stringed lute). It's a simple start, nothing too unfamiliar if you saw Msafiri's dad play, but the musicians are aiming for something transcendent, with dub high on the agenda, and soon vocals are distorted and looped, horns take solos, and washes of synths add effects. The reults are seriously hypnotic".