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Akumba Music Presents Kineyo, the debut Album of Pijenda. This is Afro Jazz and Jazz Fusion at it’s best from the North West Region of Cameroon. Kineyo is written and performed by Pijenda under the US based World Music Label "Akumba Music" and it is of the genres Afro Jazz and World Music.This Artist nicknamed "The Humming Bird", blends his smooth and Uniquely Beautiful voice with a Soprano Sax and Cameroonian-Style Rhythm guitar playing, which Solidifies the Jazzy nature of the Africa influenced 4/4 and 6/8 rhythms.
Depending on how you look at the subject, music genres and categorization of sounds is here to stay. The best Akumba Music can do, is use this machinery to highlight new good music coming from Africa – that new music which has its roots in African Folk, Soul and Jazz sounds, which we often refer to as world music, for lack of a better more defined and better labeled box.
One such purveyor of Afro Jazz, and Jazz Fusion, is Pijenda, a talent from the North West Region of Cameroon. Named “The Humming Bird”, Pijenda blends his unique high pitched voice with a soprano sax and Cameroonian-style rhythm guitar playing, to bring us the eclectic 8 track album entitled “Kineyo”, released via the US based World Music Label Akumba Music LLC. One listen through this debut album, and we can feel Pijenda’s powerful, soulful, confident presence. It becomes Immediately Clear that We have Jazz Music Festival Product in our hands.
PIJENDA is among the new breed of musicians that are pointing the way towards Afro-Jazz’s future as much as giving homage to its legacy. He is the type of musician that is pushing the boundaries of musical experimentation and expression and making it current and accessible to a new audience.
Pijenda is a young man enjoying the work and collaboration around him. As a child he used the native West Africa Flute to transmit the rich cultural and ethnic Music sounds from his environment, which led him to later pick up the Acoustic guitar and blend it into his acute musical style. It is said that good music entertains. Great music makes you feel a truth. The best music does both.
After listening to tracks like “Talali”, “Kineyo”, “Owofu” and “Mundwa”, the audience can be assured that Pijenda has the capability to do both. Singing in Chrambo, a language spoken by the Ngoketungia people, Pijenda excels in the scat style, creating extremely precise and nimble vocal arrangements, combining voice and sax, with teasing tones that keep the 4/4 and 6/8 rhythms on its toes.
Pijenda’s voice is pure sound, pure feeling, pure like a saxophone is pure, like a young and transforming heart is pure as it seeks a better world.
