A tribute to the LEGENDS OF MOZAMBIQUE produced by MOREIRA CHONGUICA

After producing two of his own award-winning albums and a handful of songs for other artists, celebrated jazz saxophonist, producer and three time SAMA award winner, Moreira Chonguiça has embarked on another journey of producing a full length album of legendary artists from his home country, Mozambique.

Entitled “Khanimambo: a Tribute to the Legends of Mozambique”, Moreira is honoured to have worked with these legendary Mozambican musicians whose talents have added a new dimension to his life. This new album may be purchased via www.moreiramusic.com and Moreira Chonguica (official fan page) | Facebook as well as some select music stores in South Africa.

He met most of these musicians many years ago after listening to them on the old LM radio station and being taken as a boy by his late father, to see them perform. In a way this album is a tribute to his father as it was completed exactly a year after his death.

“What I found so exciting, and it was not by plan or design, was that when I approached each of the artist to participate, they each brought me a song that was so different from the next one.” says Moreira.

This album is a mixture of traditional Mozambican sounds, rock, ballads and jazz with unsolicited commentary in between most of the tracks by the artists themselves. The ten artists featured on the album are all from very varying areas of Mozambique: Zena Bacar – Nampula (62); Chico António – Maputo (63); Chico da Conceiçᾶo – Inhambane (84); Aly Faque – Nampula (44); Elvira Viegas – Maputo (56); Júlia Mwito – Capo del Gardo (39); Wazimbo – Maputo (63); Xidiminguana – Gaza (75); Hortêncio Langa – Gaza (60) and Dilon Djindje – Marracuene near Maputo (84) with additional comments by Moisés Mandlate – Maputo (92).

The backing arrangements were recorded and mixed at Paris studios in Fish Hoek and mastered at Milestone studios by Murray Anderson. The voices were recorded at RGB studios in Maputo owned by Golo advertising agency. The portrait shots were shot by internationally acclaimed South African photographer, Zwelethu Mthethwa who has been responsible for the photographs on all of Moreira’s previous albums.