Kiwanuka Gives The Techno Treat To Ekyimuli Kya Rosa
Mar 20, 2003
Ekyimuli kya Rosa a rather timeless ballad was written in 1996 by a soft-spoken lad with balmy smoky vocals called Fred Maiso. <br>
By Joseph Batte
Ekyimuli kya Rosa a rather timeless ballad was written in 1996 by a soft-spoken lad with balmy smoky vocals called Fred Maiso.
However, its production was a bit loose. Produced by late Tony Sengo in an eight track studio, it sounds like it was crafted in a two-track studio that the late music maestro rigged up in his bedroom.
It dragged in places. The sound is on the surface that is why it never got the chance to be banged in the most happening clubs like Ange Noir and Club Silk.
But now eight years later, master of sweet grooves producer Andrew Kiwanuka has deconstructed Ekyimuli kya Rosa into a completely new tune. This was of course with the full nod of Fred Maiso and Kiwanuka’s bosses in the groovy land of AV 1 Studios.
The formerly lazy groove has been given vicious kicks behind. The result is another devastatingly good tune that not only metes out more damage on the dance floor, but will keep a vice-like grip on your heart, more especially if it is young.
It is not hard to find out why. This new Ekyimuli kya Rosa is a digitally clean, bouncy techno track with a clubby feel. Thanks to a heavy and a harder thudding bass that powers it.
“I always new Ekyimuli kya Rosa was beautiful song. It is only drawback was the poor recording and the slow tempo that made it somehow drag. That is the main reason why it was never played in the clubs, says the young producer who is also a self-confessed rabid clubber as well.
Maiso’s smoky, husky vocals have been substituted by the sweet, smooth-as-a-baby’s-behind tones of Charles Sekyewa, 23.
Sekyewa is Kiwanuka’s young brother and traces the roots of his music to Bishop Dungu Primary School in Masaka where he was a renowned master whose hands could fly over 12 traditional drums at a go!
He furthered his music aspirations at seminary under the direction of Rev. Dr Father Namukangula but was later kicked out for frequent absenteeism.
“At the seminary, they said they could not understand me. Not be understood was enough to be shown the door out of the seminary,†Sekyewa.
When he came to Kampala, he put music on a hold and joined Mulago Paramedical School from where he graduated as a laboratory technician. But he preferred music and pursued it.
But before recording Ekyimuli Kya Rosa Sekyewa says he was mostly toiling in the shadows as a session musician at Kasiwukira Studio situated on Ben Kiwanuka Street. Ends
Ekyimuli kya Rosa a rather timeless ballad was written in 1996 by a soft-spoken lad with balmy smoky vocals called Fred Maiso.
However, its production was a bit loose. Produced by late Tony Sengo in an eight track studio, it sounds like it was crafted in a two-track studio that the late music maestro rigged up in his bedroom.
It dragged in places. The sound is on the surface that is why it never got the chance to be banged in the most happening clubs like Ange Noir and Club Silk.
But now eight years later, master of sweet grooves producer Andrew Kiwanuka has deconstructed Ekyimuli kya Rosa into a completely new tune. This was of course with the full nod of Fred Maiso and Kiwanuka’s bosses in the groovy land of AV 1 Studios.
The formerly lazy groove has been given vicious kicks behind. The result is another devastatingly good tune that not only metes out more damage on the dance floor, but will keep a vice-like grip on your heart, more especially if it is young.
It is not hard to find out why. This new Ekyimuli kya Rosa is a digitally clean, bouncy techno track with a clubby feel. Thanks to a heavy and a harder thudding bass that powers it.
“I always new Ekyimuli kya Rosa was beautiful song. It is only drawback was the poor recording and the slow tempo that made it somehow drag. That is the main reason why it was never played in the clubs, says the young producer who is also a self-confessed rabid clubber as well.
Maiso’s smoky, husky vocals have been substituted by the sweet, smooth-as-a-baby’s-behind tones of Charles Sekyewa, 23.
Sekyewa is Kiwanuka’s young brother and traces the roots of his music to Bishop Dungu Primary School in Masaka where he was a renowned master whose hands could fly over 12 traditional drums at a go!
He furthered his music aspirations at seminary under the direction of Rev. Dr Father Namukangula but was later kicked out for frequent absenteeism.
“At the seminary, they said they could not understand me. Not be understood was enough to be shown the door out of the seminary,†Sekyewa.
When he came to Kampala, he put music on a hold and joined Mulago Paramedical School from where he graduated as a laboratory technician. But he preferred music and pursued it.
But before recording Ekyimuli Kya Rosa Sekyewa says he was mostly toiling in the shadows as a session musician at Kasiwukira Studio situated on Ben Kiwanuka Street. Ends