This record includes 11 songs chosen by Janelo Costa that brings together a constellation of cameos for each theme, from rap singers from Brazil to Nigeria, Mozambique, Angola and Portugal to Jamaican musicians to celebrate the return of the 13th album of the Kussondulola career.
The amajah has the collaboration of various artists. It is mostly fusion music why this CD now?
Janelo Costa: It turns out that we feel the need to come together and give a little sympathy towards the situation which we are living. The intention is to realize that we need each other, regardless of being an artist that I have much time to make albums, we are going through a time when we need to join forces, regardless of how music is viewed by individual. The intention was to get young hip hop, African, Brazilian, Jamaican, Cape Verdian, Guinean and Portuguese music. It was like, we have to all be together, amajah.
This work does not shy away a bit from your repertoire that is more of social intervention?
JC: Does not flee. It has themes that address the cost of living, we live in a difficult situation, people do not have money, and I speak of the ecosystem in a subject with the participation of the Rafa Archangel that is a Brazilian rapper. We did a tribute to a zone, not all, but spoke of the forest, we talked to the Babylonian will fall, the troika, the movements that are happening, we speaks of the foundations of our world cities. When you hear the record you see all these foundations, primarily is to have faith in God. This is the basis, is where we can grab.
And the title?
JC: Amajah is to love God, is short for Jehovah's name. Having faith towards the things he created in this universe. The album has a lot of social concern, in terms of how we looked at the nature and at the same time speaks of the people's choke. What we can grasp is still faith. We are not complicit in the problems that occur worldwide.
This is his 13th music record in 15-year career, is a kind of audit?
JC: There is a continuity, when we showed up at the time of the album "oh well", my generation and the previous one had a need to hear something new, then we were in a time when low-income families had difficulties because are the most in the world, at that time there was also a need to honor these people. It is always continuity. Now we have another generation, what love jah ended up doing, to see if they conveys some conduct that can not only attack, we must have another way of seeing. The record has this intention. I can say that I have a album called survivor was even intended to have duets with Vitorino, Rui Veloso, Sara Tavares, Rui Reininho and that is a record that went unnoticed at the time, because the music industry took a break, was the period of the internet, but it is only to say that the intention is always present. The Kussondudolas always had guests, even on the first album. The intention is to always be together. It unifying, culture is art.
It is a universal message
JC: Yes, reggae is just that, defends low-income families, and is that for any country. This musical style already exists in Chinese, German, French, because there was always a concern to make known what is the attitude of reggae, which is helping people. What makes me provoke them with this intention, which music is for people.
So you feel that it is a music style that will not die but grow even more?
JC: Always. Because of the necessity to love people. Has this strong message, the other songs can have that side, but who does reggae speaks of love for low-income families, that's all.
