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Digital Indigenous 01: Imba Africa

by Andy One

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Digital Indigenous is a new series by 1000HZ Records. It presents most local producers who utilize rudimentary digital tools to create thrilling mixes of electronic and traditional music - either pop or avant-garde oriented.

The 01 album of the series features Andy One - Ngoni from Northern Region of Malawi. Andy is a music prodigy who in his youth became music leader of a church in the capital Mzuzu. Afterwards then started to study jazz in only music high school in the country. Because of the inability to pay the fees, he had quit school. With his wife and baby, he moved to the small town of Enukweni, where he launched the studio Crunch Vibe in a modest hut with a tin roof.

Andy One is not only crafty producer combining Ngoni / Tumbuka beats with multilayered sound. He is also a gifted songwriter, who proves that African music is not only about a rhythm and triggers the palette of emotions.

Andy sings like a classic about African unity (“Imba Africa”) and the power of God (“Londezgani Chiuta”), but he also touches other fragile aspects. “Mbuye Wanga” is a testimony of metaphysical loneliness - “sometimes Your parents are strangers, sometimes Your children are strangers”; in “Pwepwete” he mocks a super-rich parliament candidate, who is luckily fed up with the corruption; another existential theme of “Ana Obwerawa” portrays the sense of life it is only in developing the world for the next generations; “Tadekha” is moralitat about the too-early age of consent.
Andy aims in creating his own style drawing on reggae, hip-hop and afro-pop with the local dances ingoma and vimbuza.

Londezgani Chiuta is available through Bandcamp only.

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released September 1, 2020

production, mixes all instruments and voices - Andy Owen Newa
mastering and co-production of "Mental VImb" - Piotr Dang
artwork - Anna Marszałek

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Digital Indigenous is a new series by 1000HZ Records. It presents most local producers who utilize rudimentary digital tools to create thrilling mixes of electronic and traditional music - either pop or avant-garde oriented.

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