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Sibakhangele is a second-year student teacher at Hillside Teachers’ College majoring in music.
He said poor recording of their album prompted them to record their second album in Harare.
“The recording studios in the city are substandard and when we did the first album at Moonlight Studios, we were not happy with the final product. They charge exorbitant prices to record, but they offer below par product. That is why we decided to record in Harare,” said Sibakhangele.
He said Bulawayo had a majority of inept sound engineers and people who had no ear for producing good music.
“There is poor equipment and incompetent engineers as compared to Harare. I urge them to pull up their socks because they are contributing to Bulawayo’s music not being competitive. Are they are doing this deliberately?”
He said there should be a studio that would record artistes based on their talent and not based on their money.
“There should be a situation where the musician sends a demo of their music and if it has potential the gives them a contract to record and market the music. “Afterwards the musician is given royalties. That is how you maintain quality and help grow music in the city,” said Sibakhangele.
Turning to the album he said it was about trials of life and had lessons for men to be resourceful in order to support their families.
He said their type of music can be categorised as sungura, but they call it tshovatshova.
“This album is about men being faithful to their wives and emphasising that they should love and pamper their wives also. Some songs talk about when men should not be tightfisted with their money, but should take care of their families,” he said.
He said the album was made possible by the engineer Dumisani Sibanda, Gilbert Magadi, Kholwani Dube and Fredrick Ndlovu.
“I would like to thank also my lecturers at college, Mr Samuel Nyoni and Thamsanqa Gwaza.”
Londile Moyo
Bongani Ndlovu