Name: Travelling Swans by Children of the Wind
Duration: 1 min 57 s
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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?

Sondela Kum

This is a simple story of rural meeting urban, a vivid description of a song being written for how "the chase" often does not end up with a "catch" as well...


Umleqwa

The song is about the idea of being imortalized, as well as being reveered for your work, as it states about the work of a person. The theme is that of never dying, as if you do, you works shall defend you. 

This song features Bongani Tulwana, who also assisted in the sound. 

#IMISEBENZI

Yimisebenzi ethelela indoda

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

Nomad is a collaborative project from Nono Nkoane and Gally Ngoveni

Nomad

Unknown Album (2011/05/28 09:58:12 PM)

Phila

Itai Hakim's Debut EP - The Domino Effect of Conductive Feathers

Release Date 28 April - 1 May
Independent Release

Track List

1. Xivutiso (28/04/2017) 
2. Kokwani (29/04/2017)
3. Dream Swings (1/05/2017)

Kokwani

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]

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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