okayafrica Images supplied. Review: New Scorpion Kings and TRESOR Album Takes Amapiano To New Spheres
Pioneering amapiano duo
TRESOR strike gold on their joint album Rumble In The Jungle .
Scorpion Kings, the duo made up of producers Kabza De Small and DJ Maphorisa, continues to spearhead and make efforts to take amapiano to new spheres. They are part of a handful of the genre s acts who have performed outside South Africa in countries such as Tanzania and Kenya where the yanos is proving to be popular. Kabza De Small s 2020 album
I Am The King of Amapiano: Sweet and Dust features Nigerian heavyweights and recent Grammy winners Wizkid and Burna Boy. For me, it s like we are just expanding the amapiano wave so other people can reach it and we can grow the music, DJ Maphorisa said in the album s official press statement.
“Stimela”
“This is pretty much a tale set in the late ’60s or early ’70s of a man taking a train back home to try regain his love. Bra Hugh Masekela used to tell me about mine workers who used to go far out to look for a better life. Maybe they were newly married or had just fallen in love, but had to leave home because you couldn’t be spending your days out on the streets. They’d come back a few years later and find that their wives or the women they loved had started new families, fallen in love and basically moved on.”