Three years in the making, and many concerts later, the Ganda Boys have considerably expanded their sound and vision for a global audience and international humanitarian causes.
Building on their previous albums, “Africa” and “War of Love”, the well-crafted songs engage emotive and global themes, including some powerful tribal chants from Uganda brought up to date with well-crafted arrangements; contemporary, punchy and authentic percussion; and state-of-the-art mixing and productions. Even string arrangements with a bona-fide string orchestra (Lithuanian State Chamber Orchestra) for extra emotion and sweeping scope are impressively incorporated.
The album has both vocal maturity and moments of intense soul, all the time showing instrumental excellence with ambitious and high end arrangements. The block tribal vocal harmonies of the Ganda Boys’ sound are evocative and pleasing. There are no covers on this album, and the song-writing is of an international standard.
Featured guest vocalists include: the propulsive and warm Zulu chants of Babuyile Shabalala (from the Ladysmith Black Mambazo family) with his young, cutting-edge South African vocal group, Young Mbazo; hugely popular and honoured East African vocal force, Juliana Kanyomozi, who is a multiple KORA Award winner (equivalent of the African GRAMMY Award); American singer, Carole Rowley, who has sung with Sting, Peter Gabriel and Van Morrisoon; and lastly, Ugandan smooth jazz artist, Isaiah Katumwa, is featured on soprano saxophone on the title track, “Mountains of the Moon”.
The 17-track album is already on CDBaby.