** FRESH FROM DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA** ** MAESTRO NDALA KASHEBA ** Dar es Salaam Kasheba is originally from Lubumbashi, Congo where he performed with Fauvette/ Safari Nkoy. In 1972 he settled in Dar after travelling and gigging all over East Africa. He earned respect and admiration as leader of the "Orchestra Safari Sound", which he left in the early 1980's. His music is well loved across the region. He is known as one of the greatest African guitarists, appointed the title "Maestro" by his fans. He is an innovator, a prolific composeur and a true artist. His unique 12 string acoustic guitar performance is featured on this album. He sucessfully toured with his own group "Zaita Musica" to Europe in 1991 and has continuosly performs as a solo guitarist as well as with his colleagues - Nguza Viking, King Kiki, Kassongo Mpinda Clayton, Kibambe Rhamadhan, Delphin Mununga, and others on multiple nights a week in various Dar es Salaam clubs. NEW REVIEWS OF NDALA KASHEBA'S ALBUM: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0323/christgau.php Consumer Guide by Robert Christgau Eating Again June 2nd, 2003 2:30 PM NDALA KASHEBA Yellow Card (Limitless Sky) Congo-born in Tanzania, he's what guitar paradise is made of even though that heavenly collection passed him by. Definitive is the 12-string acoustic he cradles in both photos. Sustaining is gentle singer Baziano Bweti, who died in 2002 preaching AIDS education. Of good cheer are King Malou's perky alto themes on "Massamba" and the super-collectible "Kokolay." Also nice are the clicks, the claps, the coro. You believe in staying positive? East African soukous is still writing the book. A MINUS ************** www.globalvillageidiot.net REVIEWS NDALA KASHEBA Yellow Card Limitless Sky Famous in Tanzania for his voice and 12-string guitar, expatriate Congolese musician Kasheba, brings a touch of the rumba to East Africa, letting the sounds mix and create and very spicy stew. Backed by a full band, with several singers, and horns on some tracks, the sound is full, and quite joyous. A very adept guitarist, Kasheba might be one of the very few African 12-string players, his Congolese leads (often on 6-string) fluent over the East African rhythms, making for a marvelous pan-African collaboration that works well