MSAKI ventures into a new genre.

 

MSAKI VENTURES INTO A NEW GENRE

ALBUM: “I know the sound works for me”

By: Buhle Ntulo                                                                                   Updated: 20 April 2022

 

Msaki wants to be involved in every part of the album as a vocalist, songwriter, poet and visual artists. She is unconcerned with juggling everything, no matter how difficult it may be.

“as a black woman, we’re moms, we work, we own businesses and we have friends, so juggling is nothing new to us. But above all, I wanted to keep my work’s integrity, thus I’m interested in all aspects of creation. I want to be able to live a full life as a creator, so when it’s time to cooperate. I know how to let go and not attempt to control everything. But with everything else, I want to be a part of it because I know exactly what I want.”

Some of the songs on the album, such as statues and born in a taxi (written by Neo Muyanga, one of the political and social instability that has engulfed south Africa in recent years.

When she was writing this album, she had a lot in her mind, including the Marikana Massacre and the surge in gender-based violence.

Msaki understands the struggles that black working class women in South Africa face and she thought that her music needed to express that. Even though making music about police brutally and GBV in south Africa is difficult, she believes it is vital because it is reality that many people face.

On her other album platinum heart beating, she teamed with some of South Africa’s best musicians, Sun-El Musician, who is also a co-producer on the album, Black Motion, Kabza and Oskido are just a handful of the artists she has on board.

Sun-EL with their popular song Ubomi Abumanga, was one of them with whom she had previously collaborated,

She claims that incorporating electronic house music into her record came effortlessly as a result of her previous collaborations with artists in the genre.

She explains. “I think it’s time the courteous thing to do when you do something nice for someone and they return the favor.” They offered to work with me since they found out my record was coming out, after partnering with a lot of electronic houses musicians.

“And I never imagined I’d be working with Oskido who is a legend in his own right, but I’m interested in broadening the scope of electronic dance music, which where is a lot of younger people come in, and I wanted to cover the range of possibilities in the genre.”

She wasn’t afraid of stepping into electronic music because she is familiar with the genre.