Name: Travelling Swans by Children of the Wind
Duration: 1 min 57 s
Description: Preview to the show, this is what we're cooking folks!

So inspirational. I feel a newness coming on.

I love this... I am a poet. Do you guys have more projects? or anything I can reaad?

The song is about counsel given from an elder advising their children and grand children to not get lost in the woods and to know how to find their way back to the village homestead. The woods in our modern context is the city and we're tasked with remembering where home is. By home I mean home, home. Ni songo gela is Venda for 'don't get lost or don't lose your way'. 

Ni Songo Xela

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Travelling Swans

Recorded at the Popsicle Studios in Cape Town while on Tour with The Brother Moves On. 

This is the Live Version of Ni Songo Xela

Itai Hakim Ft. The Brother Moves On - Ni Songo Xela (Popsicle Studio Session)

Especially if they don't believe you, tell them you have been there. 

I've Been There

This is my first self-recorded song song, it's rather obscure I think, and drony, and draggy, and perhaps a bit heavy. An experiment of sorts, let me know what you think.

Goodbye

A poem written South African poet by Vus'umuzi Phakathi, and read by South African poet Modise Sekgothe. Taken from the love poetry and prose anthology #BreakBreathWithMe,

Day 132 - Read by Modise Sekgothe | Pen by Vus'umuzi Phakathi

Photograph: Wandile Kasibe
Soundtrack: Ntsikana's Bell by Abdullah Ibrahim and Johnny Dyani
Production: Sipho Msai Ngqayimbana

Visuals: https://youtu.be/YsTEKqq1kPE

Isikhalo Somsebenzi (UCT Workers Strike)

Corners of Forgotten Theories is a soundscape of musical freedom that aims to channel Africans as spiritual and emotional beings first.

Corners of Forgotten Theories

DUMAZILE 

" in the post - post Apocalypse.  In the times where the rumour of war is an short-term-memory anecdote for those who have lived through and still live in the war itself. this unceasing light from the barrel of the firing stick/ the TV screen/ the camera flash/ the light bulb/ the pylon/ the stars/ have you seen a star disappear?

                         it's because they become sick and die. "

Dumazile (Zimbabwe, 1990) is a song written by Nongoma's parents Themba and Bajabulile Ndlovu founders of the band Children of Nandi. Dumazile speaks about the stigma surrounding HIV and how it affects the sufferer and those around them. It also serves as a metaphor for  the 'chosen' child that goes through a traumatic series of events before submitting to the calling and how that process affects both them and those around them.

This version of Dumazile is a Live Recording of the performance of the song at ALT BLK CONTINUA series (curated by Msaki) held at The Velvet Lounge in East London in late 2018.

DUMAZILE [Live - East London]

Unmastered version.  Us peoples dont know where or how to find ourselves.

~ 8 Bars Short
Itani on a vocal and a guitar. Pelonomi on a vocal and a guitar.

Kombela

Your love is like a flower that keeps growing. Like a seed embedded deep in my heart's soil.

Travelling Swans

Children of the Wind

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