the day has gone to pot ...

and it's only just turned 9am in the morning on this Friday, January 19th, 2007.

Projects on the go at the moment include, a single for a Tanzania female music artist, who hopefully will be very much up and coming in the next couple of weeks. She was able to be involved in a music tv series much like "Idols" called Project Fame in Kenya, East Africa, and has since returned, not as a winner in any other way than what she has learned coming away from it. Tinah Korosso has a lot to offer the Tanzanian music scene and hopefully they will listen.

Other projects involve the recording and arranging of a Afroflava Hip hop album, five songs, new artist who has never recorded before in his life and who grew up on an Island of 900 people, which you can work around in less than 3 hours. We call that a somewhat sheltered life, and yet despite this, the kid is a good rapper, plays the marimba, which he utilizies in his songs, and he has a unique singing voice, which once again we hope takes him places. We were put in touch with Ngapu through some friends who happen to own a small resort on his home island, Chole Island in southern Tanzania. They saw this talent and allowed him to come perform for guest. When guest started asking whether he has any CD's to sell, they began to realize that they needed to send him away to be trained, so the paid for him to go through a one year course at the Bagamoyo School of Arts, where he learned more about music itself, as well as other aspects of art and culture. Ann De Villiers, owner of Chole Mjini along with her husband, approached us asking if he could record in our studio, in order that he has something to show for the years work he has done and so that he has something to sell while back on the Island. We also hope to get his songs playing on air on local radio stations, at which point we will begin to promote him on a more commercial basis, and consider releasing a full length album some time later this year.

A project meant for today that has sort of fallen through was that of interviewing P-Funk, the producer of all music producers in Tanzania, the man behind a lot of BongoFlava music in East Africa, and still in his 20s. I am not needed on the project until tomorrow so what was going to be a busy day has now been flunge wide open. Do I take this as an opportunity to do great things or ....