!Xhole Kae-THIS LAND
This song is the title track from a new album that will be released on all platforms feb 1st 2022.

The basis of this album is the wonderful traditional music of the San.
The hunter-gatherer ancestors of the San have lived in Southern Africa since the origins of modern humans.
The archaeology traces San clearly back 10 000 years , and their ancestors back 150 000 - 200 000 years.

The San have greater genetic diversity than any other peoples on earth - this means that they retain the diversity from the earliest times that other peoples have lost.
This indicates that they are linked to the earliest peoples and then did not move or mix as much as other peoples.
Their traditional music is therefore unique- as it holds elements of the oldest songs ever made on our planet .

Marlene sings in her native San language , describing how the San lost their land in Botswana and Namibia,  and were forced to move to different parts of South Africa .

Musicians on this track : 
Marlene Makina - lead vocal
Kjetil Bjerkestrand - synthesizers and arrangement
Arne Hiorth - trumpets
Oddrun Eikli - background vocals

The album is produced , mixed and mastered by Arne Hiorth 
Deer Music CD 007 
Distribution by The Orchard to all digital platforms
more info at
https://www.arnehiorth.com

Xhole Kae - This Land

Have you ever wondered what the first music in the world may have sounded like?
The San people of Southern Africa are our world´s most ancient indigenous culture, and based on scientific DNA traces we can regard them as geneologically ancestors for the human race.
!Khwa ttu - Music that floats from afar
 is a cd based on ancient traditional San grooves and melodies
So by listening to this cd you may hear traces of the first music ever performed by humans ...


!Khwa ttu -- Music that floats from afar
Lead vocals: Tebogo Tsothetsi from the San people and Sepanya Mahlangu from Pretoria
Eivind Aarset -guitars & electronics
Ottar Nesje - percussion
Kjetil Bjerkestrand - synths and programming
Oddrun Eikli -- additional vocals
Arne Hiorth - trumpets , electronics and programming
Produced by Arne Hiorth
Mastered by Bjørn Engelman at The Cutting Room, Stockholm

Arne Hiorth

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