Sarawoga means ‘left alone.’ That’s how Oliver ‘Tuku’ Mtukudzi starts things.

The new album is the first thing he has recorded since the death of his son in 2010, who was killed in a car crash in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare.

Sam was 21 and often played sax in Tuku’s band.

Music was Tuku’s way back.

He says, “In my case, I used it as therapy, just to help me understand that at times bereavement is part of life. it’s not the end of life, it’s part of life.”

There’s a old adage in Harare, Tuku says. “You don’t get to sing a song unless you’ve got something to say.”

A song must have a purpose. “It has to give life and hope to the people,” he says, “it has to have something that the man in the street, the listener, can use in his life to improve himself.”