Moganjah
Somewhere between Mexico City Kinshasa and Kampala, Emiliano Motta aka @moganjah is seriously stepping things up with his label Makabila Umoja. A producer and composer since 1997, Emiliano Motta now focuses his energy in Africa, particularly in Uganda, where he co-created the Nyege Nyege Festival in 2015.
In 2019, he launched his label @makabila_umoja, which literally means “Unified Tribes”, with his partner @leo_palayeng_kenna, one of the pioneers of acholitronix. From a resolutely electro-acoustic angle, Makabila calls upon Uganda for its Baganda rhythms and hypnotic Acholi music, Burkina Faso for its tamas and Wolof rhythms or Congo for the flow and incisive lyrics of its underground MCs, among other influences in East Africa or Latin America. As a true conductor, Moganjah surrounds himself with and produces creative artists such as Otim Alpha, Willstone or Swordman Kitala to shape his vision of both roots and afro futurism in a boldly intercontinental atmosphere.