05/12/2023
WSA team is honored to be presenting the great music of the award-winning Mozambique sax player and composer Moreira Chonguica including him to our worldwide sax community.
>> Mozambique jazz star Moreira Chonguiça eagerly anticipated 8th album Sounds of Peace is out on November 4th, five years after the acclaimed release ‘M & M’ which saw him partner with ‘The Lion of Africa’ Manu Dibango.
With influences including Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Percy Sledge and long-time colleague Manu Dibango, the saxophonist’s music mixes flavors from his Mozambican heritage with a sensibility that spans groove, soul, world music, smooth and contemporary jazz.
Inspired by the rich diversity of the multitude of languages and tribes that make up Mozambique’s cultural landscape, Moreira has used vocal melodies, rhythms, and instruments on a number of the
songs sung in a variety of different regional languages including Makhuwa, Makonde, and Changana.
“I want to show young people, to share with young people, who make up a significant part of the world’s population, that there are no boundaries in culture no matter what race you are, what country you are from, what matters is that we need to share, we need to create space and silence to achieve things over which we have no control,” Moreira says.
https://soundcloud.com/moreira-chonguica
