Proud Zimbo [Anhu Acho]

Boss Yala is one of the best vocalists in the dancehall genre. He has managed to remain quite consistent over the year with a rather steady flow of releases. I have to however admit that not all the releases have been impressive, sometimes he makes you ask " Whaaat is this??!!!" then the next moment he impresses you, sometimes you feel he doesn't put effort intentionally. However I have been his fan from years back and everytime he releases any project I have my fingers crossed.  Among his projects his reggae projects have been the better ones as compared to the pure dancehall ones. Some weeks back he was asking whether his fans are ready for another reggae project and he has finally released the reggae album. Have managed to get my hands on the album and today will be sharing my views and thoughts on the project.  The album contains tracks and as usual will be doing a track by track review. 1. Love Story (No Woman No Cry Cover) This is the title track o...

The Zig Zag Band hailed from the Amaveni, the oldest suburb in Kwekwe and consisted; Emmanuel Nkomo, Robert & George Lunga, Madison, Gilbert Zvamaida ( who later left to join Thomas Mapfumo's Blacks Unlimited ) and Stanley Phiri. They rose to prominence in the 80's, it was their song Gomo Ramasare which endeared them to many Zimbos. They coined their music the term Chigiyo Music and they explained it as follows:  Chigiyo music is a reflection of cultural norms and values through song, which they say can actually summon the spiritual realm to the attention of the living. Was introduced to them through the track Gomo Ramasare which received a lot of airplay on ZTV especially on Ezomgido, in the 90's ZBC was still a respectable and entertaining station. That was the only song I knew from them, well and Mudzimu Mukuru but did not know it was by Zig Zag Band for quite a long time. Fast forward more than 20 years forward I have tasked myself to listen to as many track fr...