giant steps featuring lefifi tladi
Lefifi Tladi: Yes spirituality actually, that’s why they say Africans are soulful; it means they have their senses very much in contact. That’s what I understand of soul. To have your senses in harmony, and once you have your senses you become, obviously, soulful - Eye ear nose tongue and texture control.
Lefifi Tladi: We are the elephant we move in the way of no return,
our spears are immersed in blood,
we are the elephant, we move the way of no return…
we are the warrior transformed into a guerilla
for the spirit of Sharpville moves from the past into the present wearing the new mask.
Soweto, Soweto, Soweto we are the elephant we move the way of no return,
we are the warriors transformed into a guerilla.
bra’ geoff matlharene mphakati, co-director of giant steps
Don Laka: And Geoff Mpakhati introduced me to the real new world of Jazz, you know hard bop and all the new modern jazz musicians you know…the African jazz, avant garde jazz, he really, I mean he used to take us into his house, you know buy us snacks and stuff. We sit there and play, he said now the concert begins and he would play a record from the first track up to the last track. That’s how you, I remember in 1976 when he just came with a CD and, it was on a Friday he called me I went to him with a friend of mine. We sat there listening to a CD from Friday until Saturday the next day. That’s how important that music became to me and I was introduced to it by Geoff.
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