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| Time for TATAMANA - Hold Onto What You Love - BATILA In these challenging times holding onto what we love is important. That's the theme of the new album called TATAMANA which translates from Kikongo as "Hold Onto What You Love" - by Congolese-Angolan singer-songwriter and guitarist, BATILA. Performed in English and Lingala, TATAMANA is a positive, uplifting Afrobeat album with important themes and messages. Personal freedom, parental love, black love, fighting for one's rights, freedom from self-imposed limitations such as self-hate and doubting one's own abilities all feature in TATAMANA. An album with personal and political commentary from BATILA yet sung with catchy rhythms and beautiful vocal hooks and harmonies. The songs on TATAMANA are sung in English and Lingala, each song with a unique message, each song bursting with Bantu soul. TATAMANA starts with BLACK LOVE, "Ignorance is the trigger/And you have been triggering me for a while… Black people multiply/ Black love fortify/Black woman unify…" BLACK LOVE is a perfect political pop song with multiple layers of meaning, yet minimalistic lyrics. TATAMANA is being released through Galileo Music on 19 November 2021. write your comments about the article :: © 2021 Jazz News :: home page |