Renowned gospel musician, Mathias Mhere dropped a brand new album, ‘Panogara Nyasha’ on Friday evening at the 7 Arts Theatre and its sounding sweet.

The 10 track offering is showing signs of growth and maturity on the musicality of the ‘Favour’ singer.

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Unlike most of his albums that carry a monotonous progression, this time Mhere and his production team invested time into changing song progressions and its sounding good.

Besides the change in progression, there is also a notable drop in tempo to his music. The music is no longer heavy on the ear and even those instances where he sounds like he is choking have been reduced.

Mathias Mhere (right) unpackaging his new album Panogara Nyasha

In terms of genre, Mhere shifts from his trademark museve vibe to what sounds to be like Afro fusion on most of his tracks. It will be interesting to see how his shows will be like going forward as h has dropped the tempo and fusing these different genres altogether.

Lyrical content has not changed much.

The singer is still stuck to the bible commentary trajectory which has been working well for him over the years.

‘Panogara Nyasha’ is spiced up by featured artists, namely; Bethen Pasinawako, Kudzi Nyakudya, Olinda Marowa and the legend, Dr Oliver Mtukudzi.

Whilst most of his efforts are commendable on this offering, there are only two challenges.

It appears the producer forgot to turn off the brass voice on the keyboard. Most of the tracks have a brass voice and it ends being very annoying as you move from one track to the other.

The other challenge is that the saxophone, though well played, it’s over used. There is need to select songs on which it features so as to avoid monotony.

Tracks that have potential to blow up from this offering are Munhu Kuvanhu, Panogara Nyasha and Emmanuel.

Mathias and his dancers working the stage
Mathias and his dancers working the stage