Name: Ni Songo Xela by Itai Hakim
Duration: 5 min 22 s
Description: 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'.

It’s been a journey and a half, gratitudes to the heavens for the gift of life 🙏🏽

Just stumbled upon this Tshivenda masterpiece... 🫠 @itaiHakimi Ri cou humbela usa dzimiwa vhutsila havho 👌 The best venda jazztype song ive ever heard (if not the only)

Where can I buy this song, its too beautiful and in TshiVenda to. I love the PowerFM version so much.

no tengo puta idea de lo que dice pero es hermoso y triste.

great song I wish I could hear what his singing about 

Secrets (Tell your Truth)

Sondela Kum

Think I'll go out to Alberta
Weather's good there in the fall
I got some friends that I could go to working for
Still I wish you'd change your mind
If I ask you one more time
But we've been through this a hundred times or more

Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don't change, come what may
If the good times are all gone
Then I'm bound for movin' on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

If I get there before the snow flies
And if things are lookin' good
You could meet me if I send you down the fare
But by then it would be winter
Not too much for you to do
And those winds sure can blow your way out there

Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don't change, come what may
The good times are all gone
So I'm bound for movin' on
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

Four Strong Winds

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

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

I've Been There

Nomad is a collaborative project from Nono Nkoane and Gally Ngoveni

Nomad

This was Nkush's favourite track and we haven't as yet had the chance to record it properly as its been evasive. In the interim the amazing Makongela aka Zelizwe Mthembu composed a new version which me and him just recorded on a phone for you to listen to. Check out the Thandi Ntuli rehearsal version and look for it on our new album "Things we lost in the fire" 

Elders Acoustic

Meera Me is the title poem to the now two-part project. This is released in advance of the digital release of Meera Me I in a weeks time.

Poetry, Vocals, Djembe: Modise Sekgothe
Mix and Master: Nelson VB Matlaila
Image: Nhlakanipho Nhlapo

Meera Me

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.

Ntyatyambo

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)

Ni Songo Xela

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