Theme music for the documentary film "Waterberg to Waterberg: In The Footsteps of Samuel Maherero" (2014 - Produced by MaMaKoBo and directed by Andy Botelle. Brutally expelled from their home lands in Namibia at the turn of the 20th century, the Herero were scattered across southern Africa and have fought valiantly to preserve their culture and traditions through thick and thin. Music composed and performed by Joel Karabo Elliott.

'Diaspora' - Theme from "Waterberg to Waterberg: In The Footsteps of Samuel Maherero" (2014)

May this encourage you, lift you higher, and grow you deeper into the roots of the Creator. A spontaneous and raw blend of two of my favorite spiritual songs, one from South Africa (Ke sa le monyane nkuke ke ya le wena -- i'm still young, pick me up, i will go with you) and the other from America (I could sing of your love forever). Recorded with a phone. --jKe

Nkuke ^ I Could Sing [raw]

Download this song with the full-length album Outcries of Roots Grown Deep: https://joelkaraboelliott.bandcamp.com/album/the-outcries-of-roots-grown-deep

Has humanity become an endangered species? Why are we playing in the mud when a holiday at the sea awaits?
Composed and produced by jKe

Endangered Species

The first song from the album Grow Within And You Shall Not Go Without (release: March 2016)

'The sun has risen, let us go to the river!' 
Ascend inward, the river is within you...

by jKe, Stompie Selibe, Dennias Mashegwane

From The Limpopo To The Colorado (Re Ya Nokeng!)

If a great part of the meaning of life is to grow up, take care of ourselves and advance spiritually as individuals, we can only accomplish this as we become like a child and acknowledge our dependency on one another and the Creator. 'Joel's Song' is an original composition into which we creatively sing the Sotho traditional 'Ke sa le o monyane, nkuke, ke ya le wena (I am still a small child, pick me up, I will go with you)'

Music by jKe featuring Naftali of the Royal Family / Produced by Jamal Batiste

Ke Ya Le Wena / Joel's Song  feat. Naftali

it's not a song of escapism
it's a song of knowing that our true identity lies not with this earth and its presently corrupt authority, but with a realm and Spirit responsible for the Creation and regeneration of the earth

arrangement, music and production by JKE and Ash K (2017); originally a Jamaican and Rastafari traditional then presented by Bob Marley & the Wailers (1960s)

Fly Away Home (Amer-Afrikan Imagination)

There's A New Light [feat. Poet!]

Three-legged cats & one-eyed drummers

It ain't easy, ya know. And sometimes this struggle feels like pain yo! Even still, by grace through faith we are witness that the time has come to submit our worldly ambitions to Higher design, for the benefit of all beings. We give thanks!!

Roots Grown Deep ensemble featuring
Nobina Morimoto - violin
Ntando Basslyn - bass
Nelius Nortje - guitar
Msaki - vocals
jKe - vocals, guitar
Francois le Roux - cello
Chris J Mocke - guitar

Lord, Jah, Yahweh, Allah, Mother, manifestations of Holy Spirit, let all beings be humble to become the living vessels of your divine plan for this planet and the whole universe . . .

Written and produced by Joel Karabo Elliott
Co-produced by Roland Pickl at www.studiobomdia.com (Inhambane, Mozambique)

Blood On My Finger

within each of us is an animal and a child (jKe)

i feel like a tree with Roots Grown Deep . . .

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jKe - Holdin' Out

a statement of liberation exodus from the city to the bush, a decision of health and true prosperity being made by a great many,  from the 'Outcries of Roots Grown Deep'

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Open Country

the room was empty and dark, save for a dull lamp illuminating a cozy corner in the space. a harmonium was sitting on the floor under the soft glow of the lamp. i approached, knowing the voice was ready, opened bellow on the harmonium, found the loving chord my heart needed, pumped it steady like a breathing lung, and this moment of raw, loving song came forth. continuously and privately over the years, i've been experimenting with my voice in creatively fusing my awareness of the scales, sounds and expressions of indian raga, bhajan, kirtan and also arab/bedouin traditions...

(recorded spontaneously with a samsung phone voice recorder, in the dance studio above Mandala Chocolate Craftery, beside flowing waters in the dense Pisgah forest of the Appalachia mountains in western North Carolina)

a petal from mandala springs (raw uncut)

sotho americana by jKe w. Sibusile Xaba & Nelius Nortje

Modimo re llela pula [uncut]

composer of arts-architecture symphonies // steward of The Musical Ecology of Roots Grown Deep, a cross-continental, 4th dimensional sound
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Joel Karabo Elliott

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