{"id":28367,"date":"2016-07-20T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T10:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=28367"},"modified":"2016-07-20T12:01:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T10:01:50","slug":"katenga-humming-bees-member-revisits-old-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/07\/20\/katenga-humming-bees-member-revisits-old-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Katenga Humming Bees\u2019 member revisits old songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran musician Dam Dam Longwe has revealed that he is in a project of reviving all the old songs they produced including the popular <em>A Gondwe Akalandira Ndalama. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Longwe, who starred with Katenga Humming Bees in the 1970s before he later went on to form his own group known as Tiwone Orchestra, said a lot of people particularly the older generation been pressurising him to revisit the old songs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did these songs a long time ago and although songs like <em>A Gondwe Akalandira Ndalama<\/em>, is still enjoying airplay in some of the local radio stations, we did not put them into an album,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In his 60s, Longwe, who is an active member of the Musicians Union of Malawi (Mum), said most of their songs were recorded through Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the members I used to perform with passed away but I thought I should do something and so we should have an album shortly,\u201d said Longwe.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from <em>A Gondwe Akalandira Ndalama<\/em>, some of the songs that will make the album include <em>Mchipululu, Kumanda, Patricia Samalira <\/em>and <em>Mtuwamtuwa Chiuta<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually would love to launch the album once everything is finalised. We are also looking for support from well wishers who can help us come up with a better album,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Longwe, the album is being produced at Mathumela Studios in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur music has history, we have come from afar and so the country needs not to forget the veteran musicians. I know the younger generation is currently enjoying urban music but they should also take time to enjoy the old music,\u201d said Longwe.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the names Longwe used to perform with in the past years include Joseph Chiumia, Michael Hola and Zebron Nkhoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran musician Dam Dam Longwe has revealed that he is in a project of reviving all the old songs they produced including the popular A Gondwe Akalandira Ndalama. Longwe, who starred with Katenga Humming Bees in the 1970s before he later went on to form his own group known as Tiwone Orchestra, said a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28372,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28367\/revisions\/28372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}