Still Tryna Find A Way

This song is therapy, Was dealing with various issues in a phase I was going through and I wrote it so I could address them. I sat on it because i don't usually like foul language on my tracks but every word I said on the song just reflects how I was feeling at the time. Also, I did not want to validate any beef issues which is probably how some people will hear this. Anyway, Silence The Lambs is just my attempt to overcome the conflicting emotions of being an Htown rapper and battle my own demons...

Silence The Lambs

During the recording of Syn City amongst the beats I got from H Towns finest producers was a banger crafted by the very gifted Yagidojo. Karizma and I quickly wrote a joint capturing the mood of winning as we all felt Syn City was a project that would not only win but also be remembered.  When we played the songs on the album we later discovered that this particular song, while good in itself, did not fit with the rest of the album thematically.’Dont you get it’ seems a little more relevant now as I believe the whole team is on the verge of even greater moves. So there it is! 
You can download Syn City on http://www.mediafire.com/download/ixxn2d62mqgdjle/Synik+-+%23SynCity.zip

Don't U Get It

Rapper tool guide i did some years back, produced by Big Midget! Take notes

Survival Kit

While I have performed the The Sayer as a Spoken Word piece, I wrote it to a beat I got from MHP (Nigeria) and this was the recording I did (at Ill Imms) which I never released. For all the elements, and the 1 I represent! 

The Sayer

A song about a silent struggle many of us are all too familiar with! Hold on; Keep on!!! Produced by Blaq Scientist and featuring N!a!
(image borrowed from projectsemicolon.com)... 
This beat is a sample from Stephen Marley - Now I know.

I'm okay

#Hondo #War
Messing around on an Immortal Tech beat with a little bit of my favorite song by Netsayi thrown in there.

Single

Hondo

Keep Calm (and survive)

Track 13 on the Shoko Edition of the Syn City album. Soundtrack to the revolution!

13 Marching as One (ft. Outspoken)

The solo-produced and mixed version (demo) of a song I composed a while back. May re-work it in the future. When I started messing around with guitar I would just try to find 3 oe 4 chord progressions that sounded okay for me because my vocab was limited. Ive been told that some of my progressions are strange by musicians. Anyway, came up with this one and wrote the song about Shining despite our circumstances. Someone, (and possibly I) needed it at the time... Closed it off with a famous poem by Marianne Williamson. 
Will likely be dropping more of these as Im not sure they will ever live to be on an album.

Bwinya (solo demo)

Bwinya (Solo demo)

Wrote this before the so called new dispensation as part of Begotten Sun's expect us challenge. I was hesitant to release it knowing that someone back home saying the same thing would be fearful of the repercussions. And we have seen it time and time again as they have come for opposition politicians, journalists, pastors and even comedians. Anyone who has spoken against the innumerable injustices that the populace has been subjected to. Sad to see that the words are still relevant. We need an overhaul of the oppressive machinery that punishes the people for exercising their basic rights. We must continue to shed light on the abuses of power by those we elected to serve us. 
#NotYetUhuru #IamGonyeti

Words : 
When people scared of their government
That negates the gains of the pains that they underwent
To break the chains from the plunderers
Now the shame is, the ones
whipping our frames are those who claimed that they run for us
Question is, who gon rise in the defense
Of the ones on the outside looking through the fences
The leaders hardly see us, while they cruising in their benzes
And their rolls rolling in coz their cruelty is endless
It’s hard for you to eat unless you part of the elite
So you hustle through the week but ain’t no money in the streets
Hospitals depleted, folks dying from diseases
But the hunger just exists as a product of their greed
Watching how you speak, incarcerated over tweets
Dre’s detox, coz there ain’t no day for your release
Beatdown by your brother who gets paid to keep the peace
Coz the army and police are just agents of the beast
The law is just a paper, they above it
The power, they love it,
Coz it’s the key to whatever that they covet
You try to keep em in check they label you a puppet
Hanzi uri sellout bloody imperial subject
Fam, your mans is not Pan African son
We all seeing what the hell been happening son
we all in agreement that the land had to be won
But why you standing over your people brandishing guns
When citizens are labeled dissidents
Plus the recent incident,
Sitting in a cell for a tweet thats dissing em
And there’s a precedent with disappearances
Soon after independence
mad innocent civilians were victims then
I only say this feeling safer from a distance
Do this for your favorites who share the same convictions
Scared, who’s gonna listen maybe ending up missing
Plus they got that teargas to spray when you resisting
They scared when we speaking putting facebookers in prison
15 billion disappeared and all we heard was the crickets
Inflation back from the papers that they printing
But they probably got stacks of the cash that they spinning
Got in the booth and dropped a rhyme that I wrote
Hope y’all jump in the booth when it’s time for your vote
Coz they made our lives scraping and just trying to cope
And somehow they filthy rich yet the country is broke
Do you recall the hashtag when we recounted what they stole
Families separated loved ones flying abroad
Youth graduating to find nothing to hold
Then you try to make a plan and they come crushing your stall
It feels like their goal is crushing your soul
But we stronger than they know, we survived through it all
But it’s time to stand united coz divided we fall
And when we speak with one voice we gon be hard to ignore
Expect us

Expect Us

A collaboration between the Zimbabwean MC, Synik (based in Portugal) and Austrian Producer, Phil Chronics combining soulful/jazzy beats with introspective lyrics touching on diverse themes. 

Synik and Phil Chronics: The Soulsteez EP 

All words and vocals by Synik (Gerald Mugwenhi)
Produced/Composed by Phil Chronics (Philip Pechatschek) *
*except Track 5 composed/performed by Inês Laginha 
Additional Vocals by Depth (Elliot Tafira) - on Write On and Goodbye (Tracks 2 and 6)

Additional words by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - (excerpt from Ted Talk - The Danger of a Single Story) on Lot Less Different (Track 3)
Carl Joshua Ncube, Chipo Mugove Chikara, Tatenda Mandizvidza on Nostalgia (Track 4)
Eutécia Name - Eutecia Speaks (Track 5)

Additional instrumentation 
Mathias Schwendtner (piano) - Lot Less Different (Track 3)
Nicola Milenkovic (guitar) - Nostalgia (Track 4)

Mixed and Mastered by Tayob for Noiz studios* 

All Images / Album Artwork by Johanna Meier

Goodbye with Depth

Eutécia Speaks

Nostalgia

Lot Less Different

Writers Return (Write On) with Depth

Sumn You Feel

Just something I put together on Freddie Joachim, Sunday Haze instrumental today, Cracking open a new rhyme pad and testing the set up in my new spot. I guess I may try to challenge myself to throw out random joints like this more frequently but its still Soulsteez Season so do check out the EP on synikzim.bandcamp.com

Labour Of Love

I've always used the music as a way to work through my emotions so in this time we find ourselves in, a song like this was inevitable. Heard a dope beat from the connection, FewDoors and I put some words together last night and did the recording thing today. Mixing aint something Ive dedicated time to learning, but I guess I got a bit of time to pick up some skills. Anyway, I hope this sounds half decent.
"We'll get through this, we are stronger
Through this music, I hope you find a
Little bit of hope so you can get through uncertain times
Or at least just relax your mind...."
Keep doing your thing, coz
"Creatives are the healers when the planets in a cast..."
Video by Pedro Sandrini from Pexels, visit pedrosandrini.com 
Emcees check out FewDoors , https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChXSzFo4Zvbr9GVghNMQEiQ

Relax Your Mind

A lockdown piece compressing a number of things that I've been observing as this pandemic has been playing out. One of my faves, 20syl did a challenge and he dropped a whole bag of beats and he just asked creatives to do what they do in the #20syl36challenge . I went through the beats and ended up doing something else on the pandemic. Now as usual I have a few disclaimers. The beat was a snippet so I kinda glued it together in Logic. I had such a hard time trying to get a mix that I found decent enough (Everytime I try mixing I end up with newfound respect for engineers). And there you have it, Let Love Lead.

Let Love Lead

Its hard to be unmoved by the recent global protests going on in the world as people unite against systemic racism in the U.S and worldwide.
In 2012, I did a song called Marching As One on the album Syn City. It appears as an acoustic interlude and was the only thing that was not written specifically for the album. We later did a remix that featured one of my faves, Outspoken and this was on a special edition of the album. To me, the song has never ceased to be relevant in a world where so many injustices prevail. I began performing it on the classic Nas - 1 Mic instrumental as a way to just switch things up during a live set and I decided to record this re-imagination of it with a new verse I just wrote. 
"From the House Of Stone to all people in chains /
We keep marching on until freedom is gained / "

Marching As 1 (Mic)

So I decided to listen to the Dinner Party super group and just got to the second track and realised I could drop a quick verse. Gave me a chance to try out the eyeball I just got. Still need to establish a workflow when it comes to mixing and stuff for later more serious projects. This was just for fun. Check out their project. Its mad dope.

Dinner Party - Love You Bad (Synik Remix)

Hiphop artist from Zimbabwe resident in Portugal.

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