The news and downloads published on our site are not brought to you from the capital Maputo or one of the province capitals with fairly good working and living conditions. Our new offices are situated in the small village Massaca, in the southern district of Boane. Like in many other places in the rural areas of Mozambique, water is still a precious, luxury good for the resident population. The supply of energy is often break off, the roads awashed in the rainy season, the rate of unemployment is high, many people have problems with literacy and are mostly not informed about Aids. Many reasons to build our offices right here. By promoting musicians and bringing beautiful sounds from Mozambique to you, we are also able to support projects for the benefit of the local community, like the Aids education project INFO MOBIL, the building of a Training Centre for local sound engineers and the International Music Festival MOYA. We will publish more information about these and other projects regularly.

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Three years ago the leading world music magazine SONGLINES, selected the album of Marrabenta veteran DILON DJINDJI one of the 10 most impressive new releases in the TOP OF THE WORLD 2002. More recently, MABULU's album SOUL MARRABENTA was selected one of the all-time Top 40 of African albums. Paradoxically the studio where both albums were recorded got bankrupt and closed few months after these recordings.
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Formed in April 2004 KAKANA is a young band of afro rock and afro fusion. Leaders of the band are singer Yolanda Chicane (24) and guitarist Jim Gwaza (27), former members of the groups BANDA AZUL and OPTIMISTAS. Like many other talented artists this promising group is not be able to get attention by local record companies to record an album. We hope you like to their demo tracks: Artists

EYUPHURO, this fine folkloric group from remote, northern Mozambique, will celebrate this month the 25th band anniversary with the local release of the album entitled EYUPHURO - 25 ANOS. The album with 15 tracks include remixes from the critically acclaimed previous releases MAMA MOSAMBIKI (1989) and YELLELA (2001) as well as still unreleased recordings. Another album with exclusively new song material will be released early next year. After a long absence EYUPHURO will tour Europe in the summer 2006.
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"Moya" means air, spirit, soul in the local changana language. Since the end of the war in 1992 Mozambique is underdoing a change. Decades ago the capital Maputo was one the hottest music spots in Southern Africa, now the city is pulsating again with a vibrant live music scene. The Moya-Festival will be part of it, inviting to set out on an inspirational journey. Held annually in October, the Festival will feature a broad spectrum of music and will offer long missed opportunities to change experiences between artists, music journalists and cultural activists from various countries. The Festival is member of the IOFA Indian Ocean Festival Association. The inaugural edition will be held from 6 to 8 October 2006. For more information please write to: moya@tdm.co.mz

MABULU was the first group from Mozambique to perform at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland as part of the "Celebrating 30 Years IndepenDANCE Tour" this year. You can listen a song from the Mabulu's second show in Montreux recorded live on July 6. Artists

Formed in 1983, Mozambique's great popular band GHORWANE just released "Vana Va Ndota", an album "loaded with sweet, melodic hooks and inventive arranging flourishes" (Banning Eyre) Please read a review at www.afropop.org or find more information on the band's website www.ghorwane.com