ALBUM OUT NOW!


Conceptually this album is related to Naked & Blue (2005 MHK). It almost never saw the light of day.

Between 2000 - 2005 I toyed with three overly ambitious solo music projects; the songs on this album Dance With Me come from the first one of these withdrawn projects called Blue Magma. This album has been fraught with problems; Blue Magma was a self indulgent double album of 30 songs relating a love affair story through songs; unsurprisingly this naively over ambitious release never happened. Later, it was split into two batches one called Naked & Blue (2005 MHK) and the 2nd Blue Tena which was to come out later the same year, but there were some complications & it didn't. It was rescheduled for 2008 and that failed too; I began to think it was cursed and not worth the bother! In fact by then I had changed so much musically and ideologically and was struggling to regain rights to and recucsitate another big project called Nights of Madhead [unreleased] that I didn't care for Blue Tena anymore. I worked on other collaborative projects such as Jazzmoss (2007 GFMA & Discovery Records) instead.

Nonetheless, at the end of 2010 I revisited this music & found it had a naive charm and friends convinced me it was worth some trouble. It had 15 songs which were originally written and recorded mostly in 2001-2003; I chose 8 songs that still sounded decent. I re-recorded 4 & to these I added 6 fresher songs to make a new work titled Dance With Me. To my horror when the album was complete and mixed, I had all my files stolen and the album was gone! The only sensible path was to forget this album and start something new.

However, three months after the robbery I came across some earlier pre-mixes of the songs. Its these that I mastered, which allowed me to release this particular version of the album; I added one extra song "the good the bad and the beautiful" and voila, Dance With me was served. It doesn't realise my full vision of the material but I am still fond of these songs and I hope you can get some joy out of them as much as I did when I was making them back in 2001 and again in 2011. I am so glad & actually surprised its finally out!
Kaz Kasozi

Note: Naked & Blue is being re-mastered to be reissued with this release.


Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Timothy Nabulwa for unreservedly giving me your time & featuring on Dance With Me I wish you could have done more you are a star; to my mum Eva Kabadaki Abwori for your unending support; to George Kaggwa for your enthusiasm in my work and continual support, your efforts in all areas don't go unnoticed; Essence Kasozi for being a continual inspiration, believing in my work & being you; to my sis Prossy Nakibuuka for believing in what I do, you gave me that first guitar :-) it made me funky; to Maurice Kirya and Faisal Kiwewa for introducing me to new people and challenging my core; to Dj Ivo for giving me advice on Singa ii and the guidelines for the remix, I wouldn't have thought of that myself; huge, huge thanks to Osman Matovu for the generosity and the cast of the Destiny TV series for inspiring Its My Destiny, the Soft Jam revision & the good, the bad & the beautiful; special thanks to Teddy Wamala for taking part in this project and being generous with your time & effort; thanks to my good friends Louisa Le Marchand & Gill Swan for being who you are to me; also thanks to Maloe Klaassen for loaning me your guitar & being ever so patient; and thanks to Sabu aka Da Kraw for the capoeira and the philosophical chats, it all helped me see clearly; to Ian Markin, your drum kit was a wonder pleasure back in 2001, thanks for your generosity; extra special thanks to Faisal Kiwewa for providing me the space to think and complete some of this work; finally thanks to Roland UK for availing me with funky pieces of drum gear.

I sincerely love you all, Kaz Kasozi.