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Tracks:
| 1. Shera (Bandika Ngao)/The Magic Well (M.Ginsburg/lyrics Judy Campbell) |  |
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| 2. Bandika's Song (Nicholas McBride/lyrics Judy Campbell) | |
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| 3. Nyamala (Don't Cry) (Bandika Ngao/Arr. Mark Ginsburg/Judy Campbell) | |
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| Sengenya Suite: | a | |
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4. Part 1: Yandara-Mserego (Bandika Ngao/Arr. Mark Ginsburg) | |
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5. Part 2: Kutsanganya (Bandika Ngao) | |
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6. Part 3: Anagram (Judy Campbell) | |
| 7. Colours (Judy Campbell) | |
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| 8. Meeting Point (Mark Ginsburg) | |
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| 9. Sawa Sawa (Justine Bradley/Judy Campbell/lyrics Justine Bradley) | |
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| 10. Time Will Not Wait (Mark Ginsburg/Bandika Ngao/lyrics Judy Campbell) | |
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| 11. Dunia (Mother Earth) (Bandika Ngao/Arr. Mark Ginsburg) | |
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| 12. Mganga (The Witchdoctor) (Bandika Ngao/Arr. Mark Ginsburg) | |
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| 13. Hokambi Homze (Bandika Ngao) | |
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Everything on this album has something to do with Bandika Ngao. On tracks like “Yandaro-Mserego” and “Kutsanganya” he is the main feature. Others, like “Sawa Sawa” and “Colours”, are new songs on which he’s not playing, but where his person and the flag of his country are the subjects. “Bandika’s Song” is based on an original tune by Nick McBride. In “Time Will Not Wait” we’ve taken a marimba motif and built a new song around it. In “Shera”, we’ve woven a Kenyan song together with a new song presenting the same story idea in English. We’ve approached Bandika’s songs “Dunia” and “Nyamala” as frames that we have ‘coloured in’. Through all the music we have aimed to honour and reflect the spirit of its origins.
Reviews:
"On this latest recording the masterful percussive contribution of Kenya's Bandika Ngao adds an extra layer of subtle rhythmic inventiveness to Mosaic's impressive work."
Seth Jordan, music journalist.
"To properly describe music one needs to understand that beyond styles, genres and fashions are individuals - all with their stories perspectives, homes - who bring all of their experience to a place where sounds can mesh to form something new. Listen to the music here and celibrate the coming together of sounds originating from different places made by a collection of people who are prepared to extend themselves beyond categories to explore something fresh and new. Listen and enjoy!"
Matt McMahon, award winning jazz pianist/composer.