Nuwe album 2019
Sluit dit oop
Laai af van
Die stemme, lirieke, komposisies, verwerkings, orkestrasie, instrumentasie en ateljee-werk is als deur myself gedoen. Charlotta het bygedra met sommige stemme.
Die songs is oor 'n baie lang tydperk geskryf - ek is al 'n paar maal om die blok.
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1. Sluit dit oop
Sien die lirieke.
Woorde sluit dinge oop. Musiek ook. My woorde en musiek was jare toegesluit.
Nou word die skatkis oopgesluit en die woorde en musiek vrygelaat in hierdie eerste album wat versprei word. MP3 41"
1.7mB See the lyrics.
Words unlock many things. Music does that too. My words and music were locked up for years.
Now the treasure chest is unlocked to release the words and music in this first distributed album.
Rooijakkals (black-backed jackal, Canis mesomelas - habitat in Suider en Oos Afrika). Khoikhoi fabels vertel stories van hoe skelm 'n jakkals is. Hy uitoorlê Leeu gereeld.
Daar is baie mense wat nog meer geslepe is. MP3 33"
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Rooijakkals (black-backed jackal, Canis mesomelas - habitat in southern en eastern Africa). Khoikhoi fables tell stories about this jackal's trickery. He often outwits Lion.
There are people who are even more cunning.
3. Wit perd
Die kloppende ritme van 'n perd word dikwels gebruik vir 'n beeld of metafoor vir die sensuele en intieme. Byvoorbeeld, in 1973 het Peter Shaffer 'n verhoogstuk, Equus, geskryf oor 'n jong man wat 'n patologiese fasinering het oor perde, wat hy as sensueel beskou word.
Hierdie is my perd song.
1.8mB See the lyrics.
The pulsating rhythm of a horse is often used as an image or metaphor for sensuality and intimacy. For example, in 1973 Peter Shaffer wrote a play, Equus, about a young man who had a pathological fascination with horses, which he regarded as sensual.
This is my horse song.
4. Moeder Afrika
Afrika is die geboorteplek van homo sapiens sapiens. In Suid-Afrika is daar verskeie argeologiese bewyse hiervoor. In die Blombosgrot naby Jongensfontein in die wes Kaap is daar bewyse wat gedateer is tussen 70'000 en 100'000 jaar gelede. Ons veraf voorouers wat daar gebly het was kognitief goed ontwikkel. 'n Stuk oker uit die grot het abstrakte geometriese patrone - iets wat diere soos ons veraf nefies en niggies die primate nie maak nie. Afrika is ons moeder.
Maar oor die algemeen gaan dinge maar haglik op ons geboorte kontinent. MP3 1'20"
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Africa is the birthplace of homo sapiens sapiens. In South Africa there is abundant evidence for this. At the Blombos Cave near Jongensfontein in the western Cape some evidence is dated to between 70'000 and 100'000 years ago. Our distant ancestors who lived there were cognitively well developed. There are abstract geometric patterns on a piece of ochre - something animals such as our distant cousins, the primates, do not do.
Africa is our mother. But generally speaking things are desperate on our birth continent.
5. Die dolk van jou kyk
Miskien het elkeen van ons al een of ander tyd 'n vriend/vriending/lover gehad wat net nooit verantwoordleikheid wil vat wanneer dinge begin skeef loop nie. Hulle is die onskuldigste, soetste, heiligste engeltjies... maar hul blitsende kwaai oë kyk jou uit jou skoene uit. Ek het baie sulke mense gesien, en self ook al in 'n paar vasgeloop.
In comics word daai blitsende kyk geteken met sulke messe wat uit hul oë skiet. Hopelik draai die wiel en die dolk tref hulle eendag... MP3 43"
Perhaps each one of us have experience of a friend/lover who just never want to accept responsibility when things begin to go wrong. They are the most innocent, sweet, holy angles, but their flashing angry eyes mow you down. I have seen many such people, and I myself also bumped into a few.
In comics those flashing eyes are drawn with knives shooting from their eyes. Hopefully the wheel turns and one day the dagger hits them...
Op die Hoëveld van Suid Afrika is Augustus bekend as die wind-maand. Met die veranderende seisoene bring die Augustus winde stadigaan die lente wat amptelik op 1 September begin (soos 1 Mei in die noordelike halfrond).
Die winter op die Suid-Afrikaanse hoëveld is bra lelik en stowwerig. Augustus is ook hooikoors/verkoue tyd vir baie mense.
Die song Augustus is 'n wens dat die winde tog die doodsheid van die winter gouer kan wegwaai sodat lente kan kom. MP3 44"
On the Highveld of South Africa August is known as the windy month. With the changing seasons August winds slowly bring spring, which officially starts on 1 September (as 1 May in the northern hemisphere).
Winter on the South African Highveld is pretty damn ugly and dusty. August is also the time for hay fever and running noses for many people.
The song Augustus is a wish that the winds blow away the death of winter sooner so that spring may arrive.
Robot gaan oor 'n leë stad in die na-middernagtelike ure. Dis gewoonlik die stilste tye in 'n stad. Maar die windgat bikers of jong ouens met warm karre wat raas versteur gereeld die stilte.
My woonstel was op die 3de vloer en die venster het uitgekyk op 'n straathoek met 'n robot. Wanneer dit reën het die veranderende lig van die robot op die teer weerkaats - amper soos slow-motion disco ligte. Die stilte van die nag met die rooi, oranje en groen ligte wat weerkaats op die nat teer was hipnotiserend. Maar dan, dikwels, jaag een of ander biker doer ver uit die weste op pad na die ooste. Ek kan hom hoor stop by elke robot. Hy skakel na laer ratte op hoë revs. Terwyl hy wag is dit wrm wrm wrm, en dan op hoë revs trek hy weg tot by die volgende robot.
So gaan dit aan en die klanke is soos stereo van die weste na die ooste. Wat my die meeste tref van die stil laat nagte en die enjin se geraas van robot tot robot is dat 'n stuk tegnologie met flitsende ligte mens se lewe so kan beheer. As die robot sê stop, dan stop ons.
Wel, vandag is Suid-Afrikaners nie meer so wetsgehoorsaam nie! Robotte word maklik geignoreer. So eintlik is hierdie song antieke geskiedenis. MP3 29"
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Robot is the peculiar South African word for traffic light. The song Robot is about an empty city in the early hours after midnight. This is usually the most quiet times in a city. But young bikers and guys with suped-up cars often shatter the silence.
My apartment was on the 3rd floor and the window looked out over a street corner with a traffic light - a robot. When it rained the changing light reflected on the tar - much like slow-motion disco lights. The silence of the night with red, orange and green lights reflecting on the wet tar was hypnotizing. But then, and often, some or other biker would race from the far west to the east. I could hear him stop at each traffic light. He'd switch to lower gears at high revs. While he waits, it is vrm vrm vrm, and then speeding off on high revs until the following traffic light.
So it continues and the sound is like stereo from the west to the east. The most fascinating bit of the quiet nights with engine noise from one traffic light to the next is that a piece of technology with flashing lights can control human life. When the robot says stop, we stop.
Well, today South Africans are no longer that obedient to laws! Robots are easily ignored. So this song is actually ancient history.
8. Seil na jou
Hoeveel moeite sal jy doen vir liefde? Oor die see seil? Deur storms? Hierdie is a kort liefdes song in die slow rock styl van die doo wah era. MP3 58"
2.4mB See the lyrics.
How much trouble will you take on for love? Sail across the sea? Through storms? This is a short love song in the slow rock style of the doo wah era.
9. Weet jy
Daar is baie dinge wat ons nie weet nie... Weet jy als? MP3 1'02"
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There are many things we do not know... Do you know everything?