9-track record 'Dance of the Rubber Tree'

Ondaanisa yo pOmudhime

Ondaanisa yo pOmudhime record sample

A raw, studio and unmastered version of Katutura Blues. A taste of the Tschuku music making process. This one of the many versions of Katutura Blues that did not make it to the final record of Ondaanisa yo pOmudhime (Dance of the Rubber Tree). 

Original Beat by EDG.MIA
Production: Mutsa Lairdman
Guitar: Samuel Batola
Bass and keys: Raymond Mapfumira

2021/07/20

Katutura Blues ft. EDG.MIA (studio version)

A song that gives tribute to a journey taken by the Bantu ancestors. It describes the journey taken by the Aambo (Aawambo) people and before settling in Northern Namibia. It says they come from far, Kevi lyomatale, from the land of the great lakes. This is a song about Bantu Migrations.

Aambo- Jacques Mushaandja

a Song from the land of the brave, Namibia.
The title song for a new theatre play titled, 'ALUTA'S CHILDREN-- (Re)visiting the footsteps of the Namibian struggle child...'
Singer: Jacques Sakaria Mushaandja
Producer: Isai Eyezman

Okanakameme (Eumbo)

2024 Live Performance at Goethe Institut (Windhoek) as part of the research project Dancing Instruments. Kina is a ritual dance from northern Namibia, performed in relation to drums and drumming cultures of Ovakwanyama.
Artwork: Tuli Mekondjo
Recording: Patience Nuuyoma
Band: Sam Batola, Jean-Pierre Ntsika, Piu Fernando, Chris Eiseb, Raymond Mupfumira, Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja

Kina

For the leaders of the world, their dirt & corrupted power. A plea for affective and humanitarian leaders in Africa

Nyaka Nyaka ft. Lamek Ndjaba

Tribute to the generations of migrant contract labour. Of mothers and fathers who worked on "mines and farms and seas" via the Tschuku station

Tschuku Tschuku (Trance !Namib Freedom Station)

Ko Indepen.dance Avenue is where I will find Marechera, Ndevasia, Zabalaza, Onghili ya Nashima, Rebel Woman, Chimurenga, Maathai, & others
The recording of Indipendance Avenue is supported by an ANT Funding Grant from Pro Helvetia Johannesburg financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Indepen.dance Avenue ft. Kgafela le Marebele

Meguru is a traditional religious hymn from Kavango region in Namibia. Here with additional songwriting by Tschuku Tschuku. 

Production with Ponti Dikuua & Imms Nicolau on guitar

Meguru (Prayer For Land & Love)

Komesho

A southern African struggle song about home and forwardness. 
From production: Trance !Namib Freedom Station
Bass performed by Raymond Mapfumira.

Production by Kapro

Trance !Namib Freedom Station

Komesho

Komesho.
A Southern African song about home and forwardness.
From production: Trance !Namib Freedom Station. 

Guitar: Samuel Batola
Bass: Raymond Mapfumira
Production: Kapro

Trance !Namib Freedom Station (revised)

Komesho (for the road)

Ondaanisa yo Pomudhime (Dance of the Rubber Tree)
A ritual of cleansing and erasure. A movement of contradictions and border crossings. A conduit of antique and fresh ways of being and becoming. It requires love, holding. and a black cow at a rubber tree.
Additional and support vocals: Ovakwanangobe, Oshikwiyu, Endola. 
Visuals by Nambowa Malua and Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt. 
Sam Batola (guitar), Raymond Mapfumira (bass and keys), Mbira and Talking drum (Tapuwanashe Munyayi. Drums and Production by Mutsa Lairdman.
Recorded at Two Door Media and IMK Studio.

Ondaanisa yo Pomudhime (Dance of the Rubber Tree)

Odalate Naiteke 
A slogan used by protesting contract labourers in 1971, Namibia. The phrase means the fence must break. 
Guitar and co-composed by Jackson Wahengo. Bass and keys by Raymond Mapfumira. 
Production: Ponti Dikuua

Odalate Naiteke

for land and love.

Production by Ponti Dikuua

Ondaanisa yo Pomudhime

Prayer for Land & Love

Nandjila is about migration and land.
Dedicated to the African youth's efforts of restorative justice.
Guitar performed by Sam Batola, Bass by Raymond Mapfumira, Drums and overall production Mutsa Lairdman.
Visuals by Nambowa Malua and Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt.

Nandjila

Ondaanisa yo pOmudhime (Dance of the Rubber Tree) - a ritual of movement between embodied, spatial and institutional archives. An intimate and immersive queer dance imagined at a Rubber Tree but performed in a concrete archive, the museum theatre. 

Conceptualized and performed by Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja
Wit Tschuku Tschuku: Samuel Batola (Leadguitar), Mutsa Lairdman (Drums, Percussion, Production), Raymond Tatenda Mapfumira (Keyboards, Bass), Lovisa the Superstar (Vocals), Sanelisiwe Yakeni (Spoken Word, Poetry), Chris Eiseb (Percussion), Tapuwanashe Munyayi (Mbira), Ovakwanangobe, Oshikwiyu, Endola (Vocals), Jackson Wahengo (Vocals, guitar on odalate naiteke)
Ethnographic recordings by	Ernest und Ruth Dammann (1953, Omaruru, Usakhos and Okahandja, Central Namibia), found at Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Leadgesang	Lena Fender, Elifas Eiseb und Adam Horeib

Ondaanisa yo pOmudhime (Dance of the Rubber Tree) soundscape

Sonic landscapes of love, migration & struggle songs from Southern Africa.
Art by Tuli Mekondjo

Tschuku Tschuku

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