Today blog is Music made in South africa High Quality Divine, i love her Totally, one of the reason that makes me love her, is her artistic way of be, from Voice, Music Genre, her service as artist, activism, the afro aesthetics, the awareness she brings through her style.
i don't know if she's on her way to release new album but, for me she is always perfect anyway, you can listen all her albums are made in perfect shape, from the group that she was part Bongo maffin, to her solo Career, she´s proving how she´s is so Divine, for me she´s is the Diva.
from "Zabalaza" solo Album, "Ibokwe" also solo album, as far i know, i recomend.
i will put some info by one of the media's web platform "channel 24" says about ibokwe Album.
i recomend i am drinking Ibokwe album more than 4 years ago.
mini intro by dumbanenguebyceleste
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KingTha aka Thandiswa Mazwai Ibokwe Album Cover
The People Shall Govern |
Article wroted by : Jean Barker
Listening to Thandiswa's Ibokwe is hearing your heritage being reborn in pop, witnessing tradition
interrogated and reinvented, and rediscovering a critical pride in Africa and South Africa, that bridges
the gap between disappointment and blind faith. It's also an intoxicating, heart-melting, bewitching musical experience that's as uncontrived as it's complex.
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The muscular femininity of this passionate Freedom Charter chick, whose voice is as soft as it is penetrating, links a story about the dizzying power of a spiritual calling ("Thongo Lam") to her struggle to deal with trouble without the last resort, ("Ibokwe"), to a prayer for a return to the first principles of our revolution ("Ngimkhonzile").
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The album is deeply personal, but Thandiswa celebrates and interrogates not just her own Xhosa tradition, but also her pan-African roots, going beyond the obvious with recurring Maskandi themes on "Izolo", and reaches further north with the tropical rhythms of "Vana Vehu" to bring all South Africa together over our outrage at what so often divides us - crime and cruelty.
Collaborations with Bra Hugh, her daughter Malaika, Ntomb' Ethongo, and sister Ntiski Mazwai bring her heros and family into the songs. Rather than disturbing the flow of her own style, their contributions make her shine more brightly.
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Thandiswa's often asked if she's come to us to fill the big shoes of Mama Afrika, Miriam Makeba. A strange question, considering Thandiswa's chosen to take a route much more off the beaten track than Makeba trod. Rather than bringing the jazzy international gloss Makeba gave us, Mazwai harnesses a more bewitching power that makes the tiny Busi Mhlongo look ten feet tall onstage. Rock stars and pop stars are the priests of a more and more secular world and though this album isn't evangelical, it provides the spiritual comfort, the counselling and healing, that all great music should in times of trouble, with tracks like"Abenguni" affirming unity and African pride.
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But the greatest music should also provide an easier kind of joy. This is the power of pop. And although the whole album is a brilliant blend of pleasure and meaning, Thandiswa also provides a party. So there's the sexy "Chom' endaka", and the kwaito-house jol track "Vakahini" (the only co-written, with Mandla) to finish you off laughing and sweating.
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| Thandiswa, Madiba, Michael |
Ibokwe is definitely one of the albums of 2009, and a work that'll last a long time. I could imagine sitting the daughter I don't have down one day, and saying "listen to this". It's that good and that important. It's Thandiswa's first Urbanzulu, and hopefully not her last.
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| Thandiswa Style |
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| Thandiswa Mazwai style |
edit and redit by dumbanenguebyceleste Stockholm Sweden 2013
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