Stroke
Featuring Samanta7 & Kgafela Oa Magogodi.
(draw © wim lots)
Mâäk’s Spirit meets South-African spoken word artists in a collaborative musical project. Project started in august 2004 in Johannesburg. Recording of album during first week of august 2004 in superb old SABC’s studio M5.
Record released by Nefertiti in January 2008.
Together with, or for the occasion of the release of our record “Stroke”, we are planning a live-performance tour february 2008. We are heading for a scenographed performance. A performance in which we are going to strive for a natural proposition of the different media world-sound-light-space… a direct approach!
Although scenographed we are heading for an “in the box” “carry-on” “light” set-up which can fit in a normal van and can be set-up easily within a few hours before show time by our technician.
Although scnenographed we are not excluding the possibility to play this play or share our work on almost any stage. The only limitation inherent to our work would be that we need to have a closeness to the public for both reasons of intimacy of intention/content and “unplugged” sound.
thanks to Africalia, Vooruit, Muziekcentrum,...
FREEDOM IS FAILING
freedom is failing because we raise ugly people too (4x)
biko said that we blacks are cute but where was bantu going to.
why is it that us whose mother tongue is riot are not spoken to.
who will feed babies whose first language is spoken word from the gut of the ghetto
one word calls another and that’s the spirit moving but here is the song going to.
is it going to rub ambi lotion on the skin and burn it cos whiter than snow it longs to be no more a bantu.
will it live in gated rainbows cos soweto is full of batho ba bantso ba rasa it wants to eat ka setu.
this line is a history test
freedom is failing because we raise ugly people too (4x)
maybe being blind is the light we want we ask to be deaf too.
freedom is failing because we raise ugly people too (4x)
please answer true or false or scream if you want to
