Les Javan

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Leslie Javan

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Mamma - Leslie Javan

Armin van Buuren - Love Too Hard [feat. Jess Morgan]

'Vat my saam' is a piece I composed for the Gramadoelas album back in 1996, but it was never included. We did perform it a few times and this recording is from a Live at the SABC in the early 2000s to celebrate the Goema culture. Some of you might remember this as a period where we celebrated our culture with poetry, song and music and art. The song only has three words - 'Vat my saam' and hearing the children singing this line at the gig but especially at the V&A Jazz concert, was a hair raising moment. Enjoy. Personnel of Gramadoelas: Leslie Javan (Guitar,Vox,Composer), Alex van Heerden (Accordion), Wesley Rustin (Fretless Elctric Bass), Jonathan 'just juice' Jacobs (Drums/Perc)

Vat My Saam - Leslie Javan

What A Wonderful World - Rod Stewart

The Old Way - Leslie Javan

Ballade vir 'n enkeling

This is one of the tracks off my album: "Echoes from Eridu". 
I composed this music over a three year period after having reoccurring dreams about old civilizations that resembled Sumer (Mesopotamia) and Egypt. To this day I have no explanation for the dreams, apart from the fact that I composed about 33 different compositions that sounded different to everything else I wrote prior to this. This period changed a lot of my thinking around music and composition. "Song for Nephtys" is dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Nephtys, sister of Isis and Osiris and sister/wife to Seth. 

Song For Nephtys - Leslie Javan (2007)

Van die album af - "Ouma se kind" 2016. Die tune is al in 2010 geskryf en gaan oor mense en dinge in die Groot Drakenstein en n koerant berig wat ek gelees het in Die Son, op daai skynheilige winderige Maandag more. 

Vanaand - Leslie Javan

Leslie “Les” Javan is ’n voltydse komponis/liedjieskrywer en musiekregisseur  vir televisie, die verhoog en klankbane. Hy’t self ’n paar CD’s gelewer in Afrikaans, Engels asook instrumentele musiek wat hy in samewerking met ander inheemse mense en ander Afrikamusikante gedoen het. 
Sy musikale instink, kennis en omvang is asemrowend: Hy styg uit in enigiets van klassieke musiek tot blues, jazz, rock en inheemse Suid-Afrikaanse musiek – die grootste daarvan ghoema.
In 2015 het hy die klankbaan vir die TV-reeks Vlug na Egipte en Terug na Egipte gekomponeer. Sy nuutste album, Ouma se kind, is pas op die rakke. 

Les Javan - Rooirokmoles

This song is about my foster parents Aunty Katriena and Oom Frans. They took in this little baby and cared for him. Saw that, at age 3 he liked to sing and got him into music classes and singing in church from age 4 and a harmonica at age 5. From age 6 classical piano and the rest is history. When my daughter Jodi and I lived for two magical years in Tulbagh, we had a little Jack Russel called Groovy, or "Ouboet", as I called him eventually. He always used to come into the room when I record and on this day decided to sing for his supper. He sadly died soon after this in a dog fight. Those were the best days of our lives.  

Antie Katriena En Oom Frans - Leslie Javan

Woorde: Tradisioneel en C.J. LANGENHOVEN: Vers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Musiek: S.A. Volkswysie; verwerk: H. PIETER VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, Die liedjie se woorde word deur sommige as omstrede beskou, omdat dit oppervlakkig ontleed klink of 'n kind vermoor word. Dit het gissings laat ontstaan dat dit moontlik een van Louis Leipoldt se gedigte is wat oor die dood van kinders in die konsentrasiekampe handel.[2]

Verskeie verduidelikings is egter hierteen aangebied, onder andere dat die woorde "siem bamba" Xhosa vir "ons vang hom" is. In die konteks verwys dit na 'n slang (of iets wat gevang word, en dus gevaar of onheil versinnebeeld) en dan vermorsel word.[3]

Volgens die Etimologiewoordeboek van Afrikaans is die woord waarskynlik ’n samestelling van Portugees: sim, ‘ja’ en bamba, ‘dans, spring, ophang’, of minder waarskynlik Xhosa, ukubamba ‘gryp, vang, vashou’ of Zoeloe, bamba ‘vat, gryp’ of Zoeloe, isibamba, ‘veselgordel’, of dalk bloot ’n klankmatige woord wat ’n wiegbeweging suggereer.

Die liedjie is tot in die 19de eeu gesing as "Sie(n) mamba, mama se kindjie", wat weereens na 'n slang (die bose, onheil, gevaar) verwys. Die woorde “sien die mamba" het later siembamba in die volksmond geword, soos dit vandag algemeen bekend staan.[4]

Die eerste verwysing na die liedjie is in Joan van Niekerk se Die groot Afrikaanse-Hollandse liederbundel wat in 1927 verskyn het. Die oorsprong daarvan is egter nie gedokumenteer nie. Tien jaar later het dit in die eerste FAK-sangbundel verskyn.[5]

Siembamba Volkswysie - (arranged By Leslie Javan)

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Bed Of Roses Acoustic-Jon Bon Jovi

having some fun over C-Am-Dm-G if i remember correctly, set up the guitar and bass on the rc300 and used a generic drum beat on the loopstation

improv

Purple Bird - Leslie Javan

Engel - - Leslie Javan

Faasle - Shrey Singhal

Autumn - Les Javan 2013

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