{"id":22652,"date":"2025-04-23T13:33:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22652"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:35:04","slug":"madalitso-band-set-to-release-third-album-ma-gitala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=22652","title":{"rendered":"Madalitso Band set to release third album, <em>Ma Gitala<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22654\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Madalitso-Band-Ma-Gitala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madalitsoband.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madalitso Band<\/a>, the Malawian duo of Yobu Maligwa and Yosefe Kalekeni, have announced the follow-up to their <em>Musakayike<\/em>, released in 2022. Entitled <em>Ma Gitala<\/em>, the new album is described as a &#8220;celebration of journey, triumph, and faith&#8221;. Rising quickly to fame in recent years, Madalitso Band emerged from years of hardship and unwavering faith. \u201cMy life has been a rollercoaster. [It] has been full of ups and downs and unfortunately the downs outweighed the ups\u201d, says Yobu in <em>The Banjo Boys<\/em>, a music documentary about their story. Marking their third album and recorded in a studio for the first time, <em>Musakayike<\/em> taps in genres like banjo music, kwela, gospel, and African folk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Ma Gitala<\/em> is set for release on June 13th though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bongojoe.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bongo Joe<\/a> and the pair are giving us the first taste from it with the jubilant &#8216;Anafera Chiboda&#8217;, a track about love, wealth and connection. Take a listen below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1876197410\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=278427624\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madalitsoband.bandcamp.com\/album\/ma-gitala\">Ma Gitala by Madalitso Band<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madalitso Band, the Malawian duo of Yobu Maligwa and Yosefe Kalekeni, have announced the follow-up to their Musakayike, released in 2022. Entitled Ma Gitala, the new album is described as a &#8220;celebration of journey, triumph, and faith&#8221;. Rising quickly to fame in recent years, Madalitso Band emerged from years of hardship and unwavering faith. \u201cMy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2716],"class_list":["post-22652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-madalitso-band"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22652"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22658,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22652\/revisions\/22658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}