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| Sungura Maestro Alick Macheso |
Master of song and sungura great – Alick Macheso – whose popularity makes him one of the best followed musicians of his generation – has a new fight on his hands.
The indefatigable bassist and Orchestra Mberikwazvo frontman has been hit hard by unscrupulous music dealers who have unleashed a fake CD on the market which pirates purport is his latest product.
But his recording company is not losing sleep - calming his thousands of fans that the fake CD - Vhuvhuzela – is of no consequence. Last Power marketing manager Tich Makahamadze said Macheso is yet to release a new album since 2010.
The indefatigable bassist and Orchestra Mberikwazvo frontman has been hit hard by unscrupulous music dealers who have unleashed a fake CD on the market which pirates purport is his latest product.
But his recording company is not losing sleep - calming his thousands of fans that the fake CD - Vhuvhuzela – is of no consequence. Last Power marketing manager Tich Makahamadze said Macheso is yet to release a new album since 2010.
Instead, he said Macheso will be releasing a new album this year. Makahamadze said he was deeply disturbed by pirating of Macheso’s music and he urged the nation and authorities to work towards ending the scourge.
But Pirates are not worried by laxity in the law as they have been cashing on the fake CD whose dodgy songs can easily invite Macheso critics to blast him. It is shoddy and shorn in quality that those enamoured with Macheso’ musical works could be forgiven for pillorying him for “poor work”.
Vhuvhuzela, remix June 2012, features a clip from his popular hit Tafadzwa, a song from Rodrek Chomudhara and some of his early hits. The album is being sold openly along Nelson Mandela road in Harare among a variety of other local music and some international beats.
Extra Basso as Macheso is known for his exquisite bass guitar skills, last released Zvinoda Kutendwa in 2010 where he outpaced his own guitar strumming prowess with Tafadzwa. The nation and those beyond have been waiting for Macheso’s new release and the pirates decided to take advantage.
Macheso sells hot and has often fallen victim to pirates. No one knows for sure whether his two-year delay in releasing a new album was a strategy to deal with pirates but on the evidence of the fake CD, it backfired.
Piracy has been a big problem to the extent of forcing government to play as visible but feeble role in trying to curb it. Newsday
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