So in case you missed the great news, Zimbabwe’s pop sweetheart Fungai Nengare finally released his highly anticipated debut album “Songs About You.”
The twelve track RnB-pop-and-house-inspired oeuvre comes under Show Time Records imprint and it features some really cool collaborations.
Eclectic and intricate, it is a beautiful display of human emotion, one that makes stunningly clear his talents as a guitarist, singer and songwriter, and cements him as one of today’s brightest musical talents.
Throughout the album, he tackles subjects that knows no expiration date – love, romance, celebration and our general livelihood as humanity with arrangement and melodies that could make Micasa or any of his contemporaries covet.
For the bigger part, the album carries so much dedication, versatility, inspiration and positive vibes with it. Songs like Songs About You and Singing Our Song are tributes to fans and everyone else for their support and the later is a triumphal one that inspires everyone to reach for the stars.
One Of A Kind, Number 1, and November celebrates a nonesuch kind of love with soulful singing and infectious melodies. Like I Love You featuring Noxy is a beautiful ballad that has the two smoothies confessing their saccharine love tale like a lullaby.
Reverb7 and Tina Masawi come through on Ndaramba, an effervescent house joint that might be a soundtrack to our festive season. Their synergy and prowess is undeniable.
Musikana Akadai has this upbeat Afropop flavour that’s so captivating you might want to tap a foot.
Ubuntu reminds listeners of the importance of their roots because that defines who we are as a people. In his own words, “Ubuntu ngubuntu ngabantu.”
Nevertheless, the album is not all blissful and positive, and like most relationships, it includes breakups and frustrations.
Easy with Synik is a love-gone-sour song that has both artists letting go infatuating relationships. It’s so cathartic that Fungai has to even sneak in the “F” word in the process.
Elsewhere, the melancholy Memories features forlorn chords and a sincere vocal. On this song, the singer finds it hard to cope up with loneliness and memories of lost love.
It is intensely sad and overwhelmingly moving, yet lush and engrossing enough to demand repeat listens.
Rounding up everything, Songs About You is such a significant debut. Fungai pulls it off in a way that sounds creative and interesting, well, that what a virtuoso does.
RnB and local house music genres couldn’t be among the most thriving genres in the country right now, but listen to this album and tell us this guy isn’t destined for greatness with a straight face. We dare you.
He could still be relatively a lesser-known Fungai, but this album feels like the completion of an artistic vision.
Pickup tracks :
One Of A Kind
Ndaramba
Ubuntu
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