For all Monoswezi fans and newcomers to their music, the group will be touring around so don’t miss your chance to see them. The performance on the 31 October will be at Oslo World Music Festival which is an event organised by NRK National Radio. The performance will be transmitted directly on radio. 

You can find them on the dates below:

31 Oct: Oslo World Music Festival
04 Dec: Nzinda Centro Cultural, Maputo, Mozambique
05 Dec: Feima, Maputo, Mozambique
06 Dec: Gil Vicente, Maputo Mozambique
07 Dec: Alliance Francaise, Harare, Zimbabwe
08 Dec: Zimbabwe College of music, (Daytime)
09 Dec: Book Café, Harare, Zimbabwe
10 Dec: Mahogany Room, Cape Town, S.A
11 Dec: South African College of Music, Cape Town (daytime)
11 Dec: Mahogany Room, Cape Town, S.A 
19 Jan: St.Croix, Fredrikstad, Norway
21 Jan: Columbi Egg, Bergen, Norway
29 Jan: Familien, Trondheim, Norway
30 Jan: Riksscenen, Oslo, Norway

The name Monoswezi is an appropriate name considering the group is a collective of musicians originally from Mozambique, Norway, Sweden and Zimbabwe.  It is made up of several different instruments including voice, mbira, percussion, clarinet, saxophone, bass and drums. The mbira is considered as the national instrument of Zimbabwe played by the Shona people for a thousand years. Their music is influenced by jazz and modern Western music as well as being rooted in traditional African music from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.  

Stay tuned for more information on Monoswezi's forthcoming album on Riverboat Records in 2013. Check out our album The Rough Guide To Undiscovered World. 

The Rough Guide To Undiscovered WorldThe Rough Guide To Undiscovered World features 'Hondo' by Monoswezi ( track 9). 

This excellently eccentric Rough Guide is a whistle-stop tour of wild world music. The majority of music here is previously un-released, so you won’t hear this anywhere else, and it’s not worth missing. Enjoy everything from a trio of Romanian harmonica enthusiasts to a Zimbabwean-Brazilian jazz project, and more.

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You can watch this video clip of Monoswezi performing 'Hondo'.