giant steps featuring mothlabane mshiangwako - johnny mbizo dyani (piano) lefifi tladi (vocal)
war of the gods, motlhabane mashiangwako, 2005
Motlhabane Mashiangwako: I became a visual artists in Geoff’s house you know. One day we paid Geoff a visit and we found these artists in Geoff’s house and look, it was fantastic. They were using Geoff’s main bedroom as a studio… and that is where I first picked up a piece of paper. I mean I was among the heavy guys like Winston Saodi, Fikile Magadlela…and a lot more others like Lefifi Tladi, Gilbert Mabale and so on, there was music happening, there was the visual arts happening and…somebody gave me, allowed me a piece of paper which I took and I started drawing…and what I drew on that piece of paper was a foot with an eye, you know, and roots coming out of the foot. So the next painting what I later entitled “Nkosi Sikelela e Africa” It was a head of a woman with parted hairs, you know, and a lot of lips around it, you know which represented, the islands around Africa and this face was in tears. That was the African continent or the matriarchal Africa mourning the loss and the suffering of her children and that was in 1974 in Geoff’s house.
star child, motlhabane mashiangwako, 2004
January 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
it would be a milestone to get in particular this song in our music stores here in south africa or perhaps a “link or contact ” that will feed us with this rare stuff . this is not just a song but a therapeutic remedy “LONG LIVE MBIZO LONG LIVE LEFIFI”