Uziba Currents by Wakara

# UZIBA CURRENTS

We crafted this album right in the heart of Uziba Market, where we've been performing for years. Most mornings you'll find us setting up between the Bellmakers' corner and the spice sellers, catching those first rays as they hit the copper pots and light up the dust.

This isn't studio music. We recorded while traders shouted prices, while motorbikes rumbled past, while life happened. That's Uziba - nothing stays still, and neither does our sound.

Each track follows the market's pulse from dawn till dusk. "First Light Over Uziba" captures that moment when the guilds are sizing each other up, deciding whose rhythms will rule the day. By the time you hit "Lion's Courtyard," you're in the midday crush where every drumbeat might determine whose food sells out first.

The four guilds of Uziba - Bellmakers, Weavers, Ironwood Clappers, and Scentwrights - they're always competing to get their sounds picked up by the wandering drummers. When your rhythm catches on, you control the market's mood. That's real power.

We've been obsessed with these musical conversations - how a thumb piano riff from one corner gets answered by talking drums across the alley, then morphs as it travels through the crowd. Sometimes we'd start a melody on our rooftop jam, then hear it come back completely transformed from three streets away.

For "Copperwork Parade," we literally followed the Bellmakers through the market, recording their procession as it gathered momentum. Those crowd sounds? That's genuine excitement when they turned onto Mango Street with all their instruments catching sunlight.

Our bassist Koffi spent three nights sleeping in the market to capture the "Market Tides" feel - that constant ebb and flow of people. Says he woke up at 3 AM to record the first cart wheels rolling in.

This album isn't just music to us - it's Uziba's heartbeat, its arguments, its laughter. Every note carries the weight of stories passed down through instruments instead of words. When the balafon speaks in "Scentwrights' Reveal," it's telling you secrets only market regulars understand.

So when you listen, move with us. Answer the call-and-response. Lose yourself in our currents. By "Tomorrow's Hands," you'll feel what we feel every sunset - that tomorrow brings another chance to set the rhythm that moves Uziba forward.

We craft sun-soaked instrumental rhythms straight from Uziba Market's pulse. Our talking drums and palm-worn synths tell stories without words—just pure movement. When our melodies catch the traders' ears, the whole city shifts its rhythm.