(crammed discs, dar es salaam)

"a wildly syncopated rhythm section in sickly exorbitant high-speed interaction with a cheap casio-keyboard spitting harmonic esperanto. and a lead singer with the charm of a young MICHAEL JACKSON flanked by two absolutely out of hand/unruly dancers, just as dirty/bawdy and funny as acrobatic." - RALF CHRISTENSEN

JAGWA MUSIC are a equally youthful and dynamic hi-speed band directly from the streets of TANZANIA's most vivid city DAR ES SALAAM. they killed everyone with a breathtaking 2 hour+ performance at this year's ROSKILDE festival, making otherwise reserved scandinavians go ballistic (if in doubt, check here). backed by a hand-held 20 $ keyboard for kids, a couple of very basic drums and a haywire stool (!), the band's charismatic singer has an absolutely show-stopping quality and a voice to rule over songs which very rarely allow themselves to fall back to less than 180 BPM (this is why your friendly PLANET ROCK team feels being reminded here to early breakcore raves - except that the TANZANIANS' music remains 100 % hand-played). we have never been very good in predicting the future, but if this sheer explosion of energy will not turn into the next sensation on the european club and festival stages we might as well eat our hats!

JAGWA MUSIC's first international release is supposed to drop on everyone's favorite postpunk meets afro-label CRAMMED DISCS early in april (CONGOTRONICS-mastermind VINCENT KENIS is currently overseeing and mastering the apporpriately named BONGO HOTHEADS). in the meanwhile we strongly recommend you to bridge the waiting time by checking out two of their earlier TANZANIAN TAPES posted by our main man BRIAN SHIMKOVITZ!