Jenkins Tastes Bittersweet
Dec 11, 2003
Recently, urban singer Jenkins Mukasa dropped Suubi, his debut CD, in a hyped up mini VIP concert at Ange’ Mystique. But what is in it for us? Sebidde Kiryowa gives his take on the album.
Recently, urban singer Jenkins Mukasa dropped Suubi, his debut CD, in a hyped up mini VIP concert at Ange’ Mystique. But what is in it for us? Sebidde Kiryowa gives his take on the album.
Suubi, is a lopsided album. A package front-loaded with the good stuff. The good stuff here being mainly the Luganda songs, on which Mukasa’s vocal performance can be described as veritable for lack of a better word, compared to his middling attempt on most of the English songs. And, he might not credit a comparison to the sugary-voiced Maddoxx Semanda Ssematimba, but if Mukasa had stuck to the reggae sounds on Eddembe and Suubi, the album’s best offerings, he might have had himself a better project.
But its deficiencies notwithstanding, Suubi has plenty of winning peculiarities. The patriotic undertones that run through the album from Eddembe, Rise and Shine to New Nation, give Mukasa credibility for a songwrite of his age whose major concerns is expected to revolve majorly around love issues. And with an A-list of producers like Steve Jean, Ken Lubwama, Robert Segawa and Andrew Kiwanuka, the production glitters.
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Suubi, is a lopsided album. A package front-loaded with the good stuff. The good stuff here being mainly the Luganda songs, on which Mukasa’s vocal performance can be described as veritable for lack of a better word, compared to his middling attempt on most of the English songs. And, he might not credit a comparison to the sugary-voiced Maddoxx Semanda Ssematimba, but if Mukasa had stuck to the reggae sounds on Eddembe and Suubi, the album’s best offerings, he might have had himself a better project.
But its deficiencies notwithstanding, Suubi has plenty of winning peculiarities. The patriotic undertones that run through the album from Eddembe, Rise and Shine to New Nation, give Mukasa credibility for a songwrite of his age whose major concerns is expected to revolve majorly around love issues. And with an A-list of producers like Steve Jean, Ken Lubwama, Robert Segawa and Andrew Kiwanuka, the production glitters.
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