Official Video :
vimeo.com/32385376
Featuring Lassana Diabaté, whose group Afrocubism has just been nominated for a grammy for best world music album, and the pioneering Zimbabwean hip hop MC Outspoken.
Korokoza is a hopeful song dedicated to the resilience of Zimbabweans and people across the world who struggle to survive. Comrade Fatso deals with the contentious Marange diamond issue in the song attacking ZANU (PF) for not allowing the local Marange community to benefit from diamonds found in their area. Instead ZANU (PF) cronies and the army moved in, massacring the local community and placing the diamond mining under their clandestine control.
Combining English with Shona, hip hop with the balafon and Zimbabwe with Mali the track presents a fresh, new international urban sound. Recorded in Zimbabwe and Mali while being produced, mixed and mastered in the UK and the USA Korokoza is a global collaboration.
Make sure to get Comrade Fatso's critically acclaimed first album 'House of Hunger,' which is banned in Zimbabwe:
nomadicwax.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-hunger
www.nomadicwax.com
from
Nomadic Wax Singles And Mixtapes,
track released December 19, 2011
LYRICS: SAMM FARAI MONRO, TONGAI MAKAWA, JOSHUA MECK
COMPOSITION: SAMM FARAI MONRO, JOSHUA MECK, TENDAI MANATSA, FREEDOM MANATSA, LUCY DURAN
LEAD VOCALS: SAMMA FARAI MONRO AKA COMRADE FATSO
2ND VOCALS: TONGAI MAKAWAKA AKA OUTSPOKEN
3RD VOCALS: JOSHUA MECK
BASS: JOSHUA MECK
LEAD GUITAR: TENDAI MANATSA
DRUMS: FREEDOM MANATSA
BACKING VOCALS: TINA
SAXOPHONE: VEE MUKARATI
PERCUSSION: STROVERS
TRUMPET: GUS
KEYS: NICK NHARE
BALAFONE: LASSANA DIABATE
SONG PRODUCER: SAMMA FARAI MONRO
SONG PRODUCTION ADVISOR: LUCY DURAN
SOUND ENGINEERS: VUSA MOYO & CLIVE MANHENGA
MIXING/MASTERING: DAN CANTOR (NOTABLE PROD.)
MANAGEMENT: JANET BWITITI
Music produced by Dan Cantor at Notable Productions
www.notable.com