It s as if Friday evening was set aside as time when Dali would be robustly hospitable.<\/p>\n
If not by design, at least by chance\u2014 for this is how events unfolded at Issabella\u2019s Restaurant and Bar in Blantyre Central Business District Friday evening, when musician Dali invited music lovers to the listening session of his latest EP [Extended Play], Gen\u00e8se.<\/p>\n
By design, the evening was set aside as time for the soft-spoken Dali to play six tracks\u2014 namely, \u2018Intro\u2019, \u2018Akundifr\u2019 [the title is \u2018Akundifr\u2019 by the artist\u2019s design; it is not a mistake], \u2018Ndabwera\u2019, \u2018Birthday Skit\u2019, \u2018Close Enough\u2019 and \u2018Dziko Lako\u2019. He ended up playing two more songs, his own composition and the cover song \u2018Isabella\u2019.<\/p>\n
On a night like this, he had to be robustly hospitable.<\/p>\n
Dali came into the limelight in 2014, after releasing a number of songs, including \u2018Angelina\u2019 and \u2018Tsemwe\u2019.<\/p>\n
As Director of Ceremony and renowned radio personality Sam Kabambe observed, \u201cDali is a name to reckon with\u201d.<\/p>\n
Dali said he chose the term Gen\u00e8se, a French word, because it means the beginning. What beginning?<\/p>\n
A beginning that has no room for dancing. While his 2014 songs were danceable, this time around, the heart does the dancing as the songs revolve around the theme of love.<\/p>\n
Dali sheds light: \u201cThe tracks in the EP are not for energetic dancers because it is R&B\u201d and something close to Afro Pop.<\/p>\n
This is evident in, for instance, \u2018Ndabwera\u2019, part of which goes:<\/p>\n
Ndinali mu m\u2019dima\/ <\/em><\/p>\n Ku dziko langa dzuwa linazima\/ <\/em><\/p>\n C h o z e m b a chinakumana ndi chokwawa\/ <\/em><\/p>\n Ndabwera ndipo sindichokanso…. <\/em><\/p>\n Dali sends the message home by investing in emotions in his stage play, so that one may mistake the persona for Dali himself. Wrong!<\/p>\n Then, there is \u2018Close Enough\u2019, in which a persona urges a member of the opposite sex to come \u201cclose enough\/ [but] baby don\u2019t fall in love\u201d.<\/p>\n For taking his time to compose the songs\u2014 two of which were written by Yesaya\u2014 Dali sold the first CD at K10, 000, thanks to American auction style which gives bagging rights to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n What is next?<\/p>\n \u201cI have set my eyes on touring colleges across the country. I want to share my message with the youth in colleges,\u201d Dali said.<\/p>\n He can do it; so long as he has the force of belief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It s as if Friday evening was set aside as time when Dali would be robustly hospitable. If not by design, at least by chance\u2014 for this is how events unfolded at Issabella\u2019s Restaurant and Bar in Blantyre Central Business District Friday evening, when musician Dali invited music lovers to the listening session of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43774","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\/43774","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=43774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43778,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43774\/revisions\/43778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}