Name: One Word by Nono Nkoane
Duration: 3 min 51 s
Description: Taken off the True Call album. This is another great offering from Nono Nkoane. Album Available on iTunes

Loving the double base....just amazing...just jazz

Secrets (Tell your Truth)

Sondela Kum

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

Taken off the True Call album. This is another great offering from Nono Nkoane. Album Available on iTunes

One Word

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

Instumental by Evil Needle.
Written by Vuyo Renene.


Sunday Morning

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

I've Been There

Corners of Forgotten Theories is a soundscape of musical freedom that aims to channel Africans as spiritual and emotional beings first.

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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]

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

Nono Nkoane
A jazz singer and composer from kwa-Langa, Cape Town; South Africa. Born to a family with a very rich history in music, she was bound to find herself immersed in this world.

True Call… the debut album from Nono Nkoane is a 15 track Jazz offering packed with hit songs such as Baleka; Ndalila, My journey, Voice from the past, Meditative state and many more
 Available on iTunes and many more download stores...

One Word

Nono Nkoane

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