Gonora Sounds
Are you ready for the feelgood album of the year? Courtesy of Zimbabwean guitarist and son. BLIND ZIMBABWEAN guitarist/ singer Daniel Gonora and his teenage drummer son Isaac made a decent living busking on the streets – one suspects all that is about to change. After film of them performing caught international attention, they were picked up by a New York indie, recruited extra musicians and singers, and recorded nine tracks capturing their loose and funky sungura beat. It’s utterly glorious, from the rumbalike guitar lines to the blend of sweet vocal harmonies and Gonora’s rough baritone roar, to the drum
fills straight from the Keith Moon playbook. There’s not a second here when your heart won’t be thumping with the ridiculous joyfulness of it all, and if the band ever line up gigs in your neck of the woods, you won’t be satisfied until you’ve seen them at least three times. Ladies and gentlemen, this is what it’s all about.