AS part of the Making Tracks travelling season of global music across 12 British venues, Mokoomba make their NCEM debut on Thursday.
These rising stars from Zimbabwe perform a mix of pan-African styles and Tonga rhythms, a fusion that can be explained by their roots being a small village in the Victoria Falls region, home to theTonga-speaking minority.
Their intriguing album Rising Tide earned Mokoomba invitations from the WOMAD festival and Jools Holland as well as a pile of awards, on account of their Congolese grooves, dashes of rap, Ska and Latin and those distinctive Tonga rthythms, topped off by the electrifying intensity of lead singer Mathias Muzaza.
Mokooma’s concert is one of two to be presented by Making Tracks at the NCEM this spring, the other being Debashish Bhattacharya’s Global Adventures on a Slide Guitar on Saturday, May 17. Buy one ticket for one concert and you will receive one for the other show for free.
Mokoomba, National Centre for Early Music, York, Thursday, April 10, 7.30pm. Box office: 01904 658338 or ncem.co.uk
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