Takura recently released his project, the Extended Play titled Waiting Room. A pause for matters of the heart, vocalised by RnB Takura and produced by the combination of GangsterMadeIt, Young Nash and Spirit Fingerz. A highly anticipated project and his first since Star Signs, 2 years ago.
Waiting Room is rather short and succinct, containing only three tracks. It almost feels like it’s simply a trailer for the true project set to come. Waiting Room sees Takura drifting in and out of different sounds. The EP is very much a continuation of the sort of music he gave us last year, in the singles Haarore, Wandachuza and Goosebumps.
Waiting Room opens with It Can Wait, a mid tempo RnB ballad. Takura’s smooth vocals are layered over a gentle but luxurious sounding beat and with that I’m sold. Takura has his singing hat on and It Can Wait is a slow swinging pendulum of clever rhymes bound in a cocoon of melody. It does take long for this one to sink into you and you want to come back to it again and again.
Cold is the second song on this short project and it is a beautiful emotive piece of music. There’s an almost bare nature to it in how it sounds and you almost feel like you’re experiencing a live session. The song is rather poignant in how Takura asks for clarity and the tone of his delivery, that’s almost down to a whisper in some moments.
It has notable lines like “Why you gotta be so fucking cold? Wozviita senge hauzvione. Kana usisandide let know”, which are raw and relatable, easily making Cold standout.
Unomuwana is a song about giving love another chance, well as many chances as are needed to get it right. It’s graceful in it’s melodies and offers up the very best of RnB Takura. Spirit Fingerz works his magic on the production delivering an instrumental that feels ethereal and has a haunting a soundscape. It’s the perfect closer but it still leaves you wanting more.
No one can hold you back
No one can hold you if love is there
Unomuwana anokuda
Ndichamuwana wangu, even zvikaramba nhasi
It’s certainly a great EP although it loses points for feeling like an album that got cut short right at the beginning. The production is great and how Takura blends melodies gives Waiting Room untold replay value.
