Mangue Music: Mechanic Manyeruke - 1993.Oct.02 Kershaw Session

Friday 25 December 2020

Mechanic Manyeruke - 1993.Oct.02 Kershaw Session

Mechanic Manyeruke [picture found at herald.co.zw]

Hello, Hello, long time no listen/reading/posting. Just couldn't find the time, hadn't got the spirit, etc, etc.

And what a year was [OK almost, still not finished!]. And for today because of Christmas and hopefully also the sounds will do some healing for you all, Gospel music from Zimbabwe by Mechanic Manyeruke.

Short Biography

Mechanic [sometimes Machanic] Manyeruke, born on 1942 August 16 in Gweru Zimbabwe, lived an oblique life in his early years, starting off as gardener and later becoming a waiter. In 1956/7, when still a student at St Patrick’s Mission in Gweru, he started playing banjo. In 1967 he moved to Harare, where he borrowed a guitar from a fiend and started to learn how to play it. He soon joined the Salvation Army band, later was was drafted into the Peace Makers band and joined the Gospel Singers.
When the last group collapsed, Manyeruke embarked in 1984 on a solo career with his debut album "Zakewu", the first real gospel album in Zimbabwe which was enormously successful. Manyeruke became the most popular gospel musician in Zimbabwe, and has produced more than 25 albums.

source: sumarized from pindula.co.zw/wiki/Mechanic_Manyeruke [web.archive.org, full text included in download]

listen to Jesu Wamuka [from his 2012 album Muchandiziva Here?]

selected because of Jesu in the title, which fits with being Christmas today

MECHANIC MANYERUKE - 1993.Oct.02 Kershaw Session

bc.1993.Oct.02 - BBC Radio 1 Andy Kershaw [recording date unknown]
setlist: 1.unknown [MISSING] / 2.Lord We Cry For Rain* / 3.God's Mercy on Disaster* / 4.I Travel the World for Peace*

bonus: Sunduza - Isitemela Sangitshiya [a real trainsong from Zimbabwe, from their album Injabulo '2000']

Discography [incomplete]

1989: Machanic Manyeruke and the Puritans [LP/CD/K7, Cooking Vinyl]
1989: with the Puritans - Ndeyeiko Nyaya Iyo [LP/K7, Ndiza]
1993: with the Puritans - Gospel Of Africa [K7, Gramma Records]
2012: Muchandiziva Here? [local album; his 25th!] - listen at soundcloud

Note: Was originally planning to start posting again with a recording I [and may be some of you also] was looking for for a very very long time. Found it last week, not complete but almost [!]. And you'll all be able to hear that very soon through Mangue Music!!
Guaranteed!! For Sure!! SO stay tuned!!