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Mfama Ziyabona - Msaki

Sondela Kum

Written by: Thandiswa
Additional Programming and Engineering by: pH

Yeyam Nawe (#FreedomIs4Everyone)

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

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)

Msaki and the Golden Circle Tribe 

Vocals: Msaki
Bass: Dave Manchip
Percusion: Gontse Makhene
Guitar: Tim Hutchinson
Lead guitar: Jay Schutter
Keys: Germaine Gamiet
Drums: Asher Gamedze
Cello: Tsepo Pooe
Violin & Vocals: Eleanore Roselt
Recorder: Siya Makhuzeni
Brass: H3
Back up vocal magic: Zama and the Voice Ministries | Joel Karabo Elliott
Produced by Msaki, Nduduzo Makhathini  Cobus Van Dyk and Daniel Hutchinson And

Weight ...For The War

Guys I've been promising to share some new music for a long time now and its about time. so here it is a three track EP based on keeping everything bare to leave more space for lyrical content. in the words of 340ml #sorryforthedelay #bumpitforyourgran 

Vengeance

Dance of the Forgotten Free - Live in Concert

Izilo (Live)

From the bordem, of not being where I belong in the studio, I decide to turn the guitar amp, mobile phone and laptop into the makeshift setup. #sidewalkcyborg #thisisasign #27April

Experiment 2

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

Myself C.Y.A on the vocals and the beat made by Qwerty Hynna. We getting there, this song was made late 2016 along with other songs that are still to come.

SINGLE

TRIPPING (Prod.Qwerty Hynna)

Our first workshop based performance at Jazz at The Native Yards.

Live show - Jazz at the Native Yards

This track was specifically written for the short film, Ephasini Lamabhudango. Watch the whole film here:

https://vimeo.com/170676277

Thandi Ntuli Composition June 16 

To My Own Self

tracklist.
Y don't we Fall In Love? x bubblerap
let's ride x q-tip
call u back x erykah badu
gotta know x kari faux
if u wanna x waju
blind man x xavier omar & sango
rocket science x joyce wrice

mix by brooks

often

An offering of love; a journey for our souls through sound.

Dreamtime Sessions (Iman & Ernie)

How do you stop hustling when there is so much to accomplish? I'm not winning yet... Stunna wrote, 'its a trap song with a dope meaning'

Single

How can I stop ft Yung Sun (prod. Maq Stunna)

there is a place inside of you that is all knowing...
these meditations are an ode to those sacred silent places, to the known and unknowns, to the seen and unseens, and to the ancestral realms from which you have come. 

these incantations are wanting to lead you back...
home

ancient dreams (AxisZulu Natural Mix)

Ifele by Sky Dladla Prod. by Tamara Ringas

Ifele by Sky Dladla

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]

Inspired by Feminist scholar and author Dr Pumla Gqola's book titled, "A Renogade Called Simphiwe" - part biography part analysis of singer-songwriter and activist; Simphiwe Dana.

Performed by: Ondela Simakuhle, Ayanda Charlie
Composed by: Zintle Mbengashe
Lyrics by: Ayanda Charlie, Ondela Simakuhle

IIntloni feat. Sky Dladla

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

DEAR READER 

Thank You for Finding Your Way Here! 

We hope your curiosity will be rewarded with a notion of this belonging to the category [Everything Else].

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Independent Artists Nongoma from Kajama and Itai Hakim while on a silent tour down the famous Garden Route in South Africa [October to December 2018] started a collaboration on a project space called [Everything Else]

As the name suggest both artists are on a journey to explore different ways in which independent artists can approach collaboration, the occupation of spaces, the narration of the the 'quiet ones' and more broadly etch out space beyond the conventional forms of housing musical directions and musical performance to limited genre types and commercial tropes - opting for constant experimentation during the reflection of being in transit - to nowhere in particular but arriving nonetheless. The departure is always from within only to arrive within again.