Mokoomba - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

KEXP.ORG presents Mokoomba performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded July 22, 2014.
Songs:
Kum Kanda
Ngikhumbula
Njoka
Host: DJ Rythma
Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs
Cameras: Chrispy Harrison, Scott Holpainen & Justin Wilmore
Editor: Luke Knecht
Thumbnail photo by Allyce Andrew
mokoomba.com
kexp.org

[@lovemorebanda4719]

I can't get enough of Mokoomba at the moment. Even my kids are singing Kum Kanda around the house

[@DougColtart]

Watched Mokoomba live in Harare - they were AWESOME! Simply inspirational!

[@OsKaRR]

They're definitely the best outfit around

[@OsKaRR]

Best Zimbabwean band ever !!!@Mokoomba are just awesome

[@OsKaRR]

Back here after 10 years

[@fambayi]

Sublime. Zimbabwe's musical gift to the world.

[@pamaskus3066]

Spiritual voices and rare beats that jell simple in the dna eish. Bless you bafana, Dig you big time.

[@MeccaVonPetra1]

Please more like this! Brings to mind the great Fela Kuti.

[@rgobbifilho]

Shout out from Brazil!

[@FraternalHouse]

I love this band..

[@restlessmedicine]

Saw them in Harare and was totally enthralled. Will be going to Albuquerque to see them there 9/24 at the world music festival. They're an amazing bunch of musicians. Great energy!

[@MsQando]

Proud of my fellow countrymen. Am also being introduced to smaller tribe beautiful languages. Great work guys

[@loladiestro5812]

I will weak up tomorrow morning with this music!!! great....

[@fabiodewitt9140]

Man! What amazing group.

[@ProudZimbo]

love these guys to bits. amazing performance

[@arthurmabreza6487]

Nothing but the best ...

[@lucietegtmajerova5294]

saw you guys las summer in the czech republic... the performance was unforgetable!

[@babsfox2106]

I can't wait to see these guys at the Joshua Tree Music Festival this Fall!

[@charleschananda1548]

surely, they are a rising tide. Keep it up my fellow home boys.

[@shungumapila7155]

So happy I found you Mokoomba. Well done. So proud.

[@vitaliskazingizi9698]

Great inspirational music. I like...

[@dunamtetwa8612]

One of the best bands Zimbabwe has ever had...These guys are amazing...

[@TheMikiros]

This band is honestly just sooooo amazing! the lead singers voice gives me goosebumps!

[@fiveeyes2802]

I love this band!

[@aliaprod8868]

To all Mokoomba fans posting here, note they are returning to US/Canada in 2017... New Orleans Jazz & Heritage just announced their line-up, including Mokoomba! Show them some love... plus if you have never been to Festival Internationale de Louisiana, they will be performing twice there too... come on and party with us in Louisiana!

[@lovemorebanda4719]

ALIA Prod are they coming to London anytime soon?

[@abhibhargava973]

Amazing.

[@gahealthadvisor]

The tightest performance I've seen on this channel in a long time. These guys can straight up play. So glad you guys introduced me to this group. Awesome!

[@JoJo-ev1pz]

Absolutely smashing! This band is one of the most talented yet underrated urban bands in Southern Africa. With good promotion they will go far. Good luck boys!

[@Rebel257]

Who dislikes such a dulcet? Mokoomba is absolute perfection

[@theprivileged]

Phenomenal

[@PianoGeek78]

This is true musicianship! Great sound and they are SUPER tight! Love it

[@ashleynyasha7971]

its painfull they not even known that much in zim

[@upendasana7857]

just discovered this band and I am hooked.

[@danniimunoz7209]

really cool music, i'm a fan now

[@Music2Die4]

Bravo!!

[@mariapasca42]

Saw them live at Plai last year, they were amazing, you had to be a soulless bastard to not move, they were one of the highlights of the festival for sure

[@agustindelsante]

Una JOYA!

[@muzikiwahisia180]

wow

[@CoolWorldMusic]

Love it!

[@StiB14thC]

wow,..i agree with the dj, i need a drink while listening to this. not a fan of afromusic but you guys made me one. more power. :D

[@Spaceyblak]

AMAZING!!!

[@aliaprod8868]

Mokoomba coming back next week! Check schedule here: Feb 22 BRIC series, Brooklyn, NY Feb 24 House of Blues , Boston, MA Feb 26 - Mar 7 residency in Detroit Zimbabwe CulturalCenter of Detroit (ZCCD) Mar 9 Taos Mesa Brewing Co., Taos, NM Mar 11 Dirty Bourbon, Albuquerque, NM Mar 13-15 SxSW , Austin, TX Mar 16 Freedom Hall, Park Forest IL May 2 The Falcon, Marlboro, NY May 3 City Winery, NYC, NY

[@JosReyan]

sublime mokoomba

[@michaelviyazhi1414]

Was sleeping on good music

[@flinzz78]

❤️❤️❤️

[@FabioBedini]

so good and nice people :)

[@rosie15615]

Reminds me of Bhundu Boys

[@veemtg]

i would love to hear a collabo between these guys abd Jah P

[@HakunaMutsvene]

Super

[@CoolWorldMusic]

❤️

[@lillianmuzambwa6854]

proudly zimbo y'all

[@nzuellig]

Just found and fell in love with this band. So good to have such positive, new music in my life. One question for ya'll: does anyone know where to find the song "Kum Kanda"? It doesn't appear to be on either of their studio albums but I would very much like to jam it in the vehicle whilst I cruise around town. Thanks

[@Borat426]

I think KEXP got the spelling slightly wrong. The track is called 'Kumukanda' and it's on their album 'Luyando'.

[@ivansangweni]

🎧❤

[@spac3n1nja]

NICE

[@jaydenmuchabaiwa6626]

Hamuite! Hamuite!

[@tafadzwagora9290]

This is the best group in Zimbabwe at the moment. Its unfortunate that they are not being given the respect they deserve simply because they are coming from a minority ethnic group, the Tonga. They have made themselves noticed without the help of collaborations other artistes who have made already made it at the continental level (e.g some musicians have engaged the artistes like Diamond and Davido in order to be recognised, yet for Mokoomba their rise is attributed to pure talent not collaborations ) remember Lovemore Majaivan expressing his displeasure over lack of recognition because he is from Matabeleland. Seems his concerns were valid.

[@Majimbosi]

Tafadzwa Gora they are good very good. But I feel it's unfair to suggest it's just because they are Tonga why we don't celebrate them. Very few Zimbabweans speak Tonga so context of their songs is always lost. However music is a universal language that's why their popularity is steadily growing back home. They have ndebele song as well so even them they are slowly singing for the masses. It's brilliant that they started with thier mother language and made it, it is also good that they are using the other languages of Zimbabwe. The lesson maybe should be all our various languages must be taught to the whole country as a whole

[@tapiwamufunde435]

I am more inclined to agree with this notion. I then ask, what happened to their music guys like Chase Skuza, Majaivana, Jays Marabhini, etc. Apparently we are a bit biased on how we present the music on radio (thats radio DJ's). I only got to know of this group two weeks ago and i am addicted now to their music. Maybe its not abt collaborations with famous artists but realising those that rise because of efforts. My two sense

[@mwanaweblack]

zvirikufaya varume

[@svmbarashe4679]

The New Bhungu Boys

[@thomasmuziyirwa]

kuseri kwekumberi

[@danniimunoz7209]

really cool music, i'm a fan now

[@worldofgnr]

+DANNII MUÑOZ Welcome to little but strong base of their fans.