Jenifa Mayanja Joins the Collective And Delivers the Goods

Oct. 11, 2010 - PRLog -- Hayward, CA, USA –Monday,  October 11, 2010 –– Altered Moods Recordings, celebrates its 18th release by introducing the second talented lady to the Collective with Jenifa Mayanja’s “Desire More.”

Jenifa Mayanja, respected New York DJ, producer and owner of Bu-Mako Recordings, steps into the Altered Moods Collective for an exciting two cut vinyl release, Desire More. The first side slides into a subtle groove with voices and synthy keys over a beat itching to get you on to the dance floor. Then a variety of warm melodies join in, bubbling and be-bopping onto the main cut, a collusion of claps, beats and riffs right out of a drumming session in a room full of pros. But it’s all Jenifa, all the time, as her voice comes back and leads us to a saucy clarinet that could be rehearsing in the next room, unaware of our presence. Yet it echoes the feel of the piece, dancing away from and back to the rhythm.

The flip side, Live Your Life, is a brisk walk and a nod to deepness, with Ms. Mayanja’s voice urging us toward the credo of the title: “live your life, before it passes you by.” Again, with a delicate layering of rhythm instruments, bells, claps, marimbas and hi-hats, she weaves texture and tone into chords and rhythm simultaneously. This homage to urban hip has hints of nature and a wild feel; she brings you into her world completely and comforts you with the familiar while enjoining you to do the simplest yet oftentimes most complicated thing—live in the “right now.” A head-nod thumper you’ll surely play over and over.

“Desire More” (Catalog No. AMR-18E) will have a limited vinyl release on Friday, November 5, 2010.