Mulangeni Sounds was a force to reckon with in the music industry in the past years.<\/p>\n
Their songs such as \u2018Kwathu Ku Mulangeni\u2019 \u2018Namwali\u2019 and \u2018Juju\u2019 enjoyed massive airplay.<\/p>\n
But after their exploits, the group disappeared from the limelight with some quarters indicating Mulangeni Sounds had died a natural death.<\/p>\n
But the Mangochi-based group is still intact although with some new faces.<\/p>\n
One of the members of the group Goodwell Thunga said Wednesday that Mulangeni Sounds has just finalised working on a new album titled Wakumva Amve. <\/em><\/p>\n Thunga, a graduate of the University of Malawi \u2013 Chancellor College and used to perform with a colleague as Mapatenala, said the album will be released in July.<\/p>\n He added that some of the songs in the album namely, \u2018Chule Wa Mphere\u2019 \u2018Chidule\u2019 and \u2018Mumatinena\u2019 have already been released.<\/p>\n \u201cThe album actually will include redos of \u2018Juju,\u2019 \u2018Namwali\u2019 and \u2018Kwa Ku Mulangeni\u2019 which were released in the mid 90s,\u201d Thunga said.<\/p>\n He said the album was recorded at Clean Hearts Studio by Viwe Chibwana and directed by Funghie Mutsinze.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been some time but Mulangeni Sounds is there and we have been performing in some shows but not as vibrant as we were in the past years,\u201d Thunga said.<\/p>\n The other members of the forgotten Mulangeni Sounds are Christopher Chishimbi, who is the band leader, Mervin Kambale, Prince Valamanja, Edward Matola and Yusuf Mdala.<\/p>\n Thunga said the band has performed twice at the Sound and Light concert at Sunbird Livingstonia in Salima and Zitherepano in Mangochi.<\/p>\n He also said that the band played at Zitherepano as a resident for close to five months until last November.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are trying as much as possible to come out and reclaim our position. And despite the apparent dormancy, the band is fully in shape and in touch with the current trends in the music sector. And we can ably say that we can withstand the heat,\u201d Thunga said.<\/p>\n With Valamanja and Mdala on vocals, Thunga said the band has experienced members.<\/p>\n \u201cThe band leader and lead guitarist was originally born in DRC and has stayed in Malawi for close to 20 years. He played with Bolingo Stars and had a stint with Lucius Banda\u2019s Zembani Band. He has been with Mulangeni Sounds for more years, so it\u2019s a band with experienced members,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mulangeni Sounds was a force to reckon with in the music industry in the past years. Their songs such as \u2018Kwathu Ku Mulangeni\u2019 \u2018Namwali\u2019 and \u2018Juju\u2019 enjoyed massive airplay. But after their exploits, the group disappeared from the limelight with some quarters indicating Mulangeni Sounds had died a natural death. But the Mangochi-based group is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47015","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\/47015","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=47015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47020,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47015\/revisions\/47020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}