Melody Uganda band performing at the International Indie Music Festival at the Kerala Arts and Craft Village
| Photo Credit: S.R. Praveen
Melody Uganda carries their country’s name as part of their band, but all through their performance at the ongoing International Indie Music Festival (IIMF) at the Kerala Arts and Craft Village and their conversations, they strive for a wider representation of the entire African continent. It is a band which makes it hard for us to pin it down to one particular genre, switching seamlessly from Afropop to smatterings of reggae or folk and with influences of Congolese rumba.
Their sound speaks of the varied influences of each of the members with Kakooza Manson, the frontman and founder of the band, brings in his roots in reggae and Afropop, while drummer and music programmer Rako has folkish influences and guitarist Erick, a Ugandan citizen of Congolese origin has his rumba influences. At their home town Kampala, they all stay in the same…