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Udondolo

Urban Village

NØF.49 — 2021

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Izivunguvungu zalo mhlaba

Ziyawu khathaza umoya wami

Izivunguvungu zalo mhlaba

Ziyawu khathaza umoya wami

Mama wam mina ngiyathanda

Ukuza kuwe

Mama wam mina ngiyathanda

Ukuza kuwe

 

Izivunguvungu zalo mhlaba

Ziyawu khathaza umoya wami

Izivunguvungu zalo mhlaba

Ziyawu khathaza umoya wami

Mama wam mina ngiyathanda

Ukuza kuwe

Mama wam mina ngiyathanda

Ukuza kuwe

 

Mama wami mina ngyathanda

Ukuza kuwe

kodwa le indela inameva Ahlabayo

 

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Kumele uhambele phezulu


Wemfo ka baba


Ungabhajwa


Kumele uhambele phezulu


Wemntaka baba

Ungabhajwa


 

Yebo uyi-dark dindi


Masikubona 


Sithi Dindi


Sithi Dindi


Sithi Dindi


Sithi Dindi


YEBO!!!!


 

Wothanda umbala wesikhumba sakho


Uzigabise, Uziqhenye


 

{Backing Vocals}

Wothanda umbala wesikhumba sakho


Uziqhenye, uzigabise


Uziqhenye, uzigabise


 

Yebo uyi-dark dindi


Masikubona 


Sithi Dindi


Sithi Dindi


Sithi Dindi


Sithi Dindi


YEBO!!!!


 

Dindi, Dindi, Dindi

Masikubona sithi Dindi, Dindi, Dindi


Masikubona sithi Dindi, Dindi, Dindi


Masikubona sithi Dindi, Dindi, Dindi


Ziqhenye ngobu ntsundu bakho


Thanda umbala wesikhumba sakho


 

{Backing Vocals}


Ziqhenye ngobu ntsundu bakho


Thanda umbala wesikhumba sakho


Thanda umbala wesikhumba sakho


 

Masikubona sithi Dindi, Dindi, Dindi


Masikubona sithi Dindi, Dindi, Dindi


Masikubona sithi Dindi, Dindi, Dindi


Masikubona sithi Dindi, Dindi, Dindi


 

Yebo uyi-dark dindi


Masikubona 

sithi Dindi, Dindi, Dindi


sithi Dindi, Dindi, Dindi


sithi Dindi, Dindi, Dindi


 

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(Humming)

(Humming) 

(Humming) 

(Humming)

Oh Ohoh

 

Ngangi hamba no’mfowethu 

Si shaya imimoya

Sikhipha imimoya phume phelele

 

Ngangi hamba no’mfowethu 

Si shaya imimoya

Sikhipha imimoya phume phelele

 

(Humming)

(Humming) 

(Humming) 

(Humming)

Oh Ohoh

 

Wongo wongo wongo

Wongo

 

(Humming)

(Humming) 

(Humming) 

(Humming)

Oh Ohoh

 

Sanibonani

Sanibonani

Ninjani

Thina siyaphila la!

 

Sanibonani

Sanibonani

Ninjani

Thina siyaphila la!

 

Sanibonani

Sanibonani

Ninjani

Thina siyaphila la!

 

Sanibonani

Sanibonani

Ninjani

Thina siyaphila la!

 

(Humming)

(Humming) 

(Humming) 

(Humming)

Oh Ohoh

 

Uphi ubaba ke

Uphi u umnunzane

Uphi ubaba ke

Ukhona usendlini

 

Uphi ubaba ke

Uphi u umnunzane

Uphi ubaba ke

Ukhona usendlini

 

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Ubusuku bufikile

Nezinkanyezi zimbalwa

 

Izimpisi ziyakhala

Izimpisi ziyakhala

 

Ngisingethwe ngu bumnyama bodwa

 

Veza Ke

Veza Ke

 

Izinkonde…… Zithi….

Incibi Yamanzi

Ifa ngamanzi

 

Ubusuku bufikile

Nezinkanyezi zimbalwa

Izimpisi ziyakhala

Izimpisi ziyakhala

 

Ngisingethwe ngu bumnyama bodwa

 

Veza Ke

Veza Ke

 

Izinkonde…… Zithi….

Incibi Yamanzi

Ifa ngamanzi

 

(Spoken word)

It will help you to hurry up as the time has arrived for you to start your trip.

This night is not for you to play with, go brother, go brother.

 

Izinkonde Zithi

 

Incibi Yamanzi

Ifa ngamanzi

 

Ubusuku bufikile

Nezinkanyezi zimbalwa

Izimpisi ziyakhala

Izimpisi ziyakhala

 

Ngisingethwe ngu bumnyama bodwa

Veza Ke

Veza Ke

 

Veza Ke

Veza Ke

 

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Motho Keo

Motho ke mang

O tswa kae

O ya kae

 

Ke me shoeshow moswaila

Lekgolokwe 

Lehlabahoka lemao 

Ayise moreneng are morena

Bona morena 

Ke hlabile

 

Abafumane badutse ka tlasa sefate a

Aba lumelisa

Aba neha madume 

Are madume

Are madume

Are madume

 

Madume

Ee Madume

Madume

Ee Madume

Madume

Ee Madume

...

 

 

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Wom Wom

Wom Wom

Wom Wom

 

Take me by the hand

And lead me down the road


A road to a place

Where every soul is one

 

Wom Wom, Wom … Wom

Wom Wom, Wom … Wom

Wom Wom, Wom … Wom

Wom Wom, Wom … Wom

 

The elders share wisdom


Angithi uyazi indlela 


Ibuzwa kuba phambili


Yimi nguwe Sakhiziswe


Yimi nguwe Sakhiziswe


Sibambisene Sakhisizwe

 

Wom Wom, Wom … Wom

Wom Wom, Wom … Wom

Wom Wom, Wom … Wom

Wom Wom, Wom … Wom

 

The woman in the village dance around fire


The man echo a chanting rhythm 

 

Wom Wom, Wom … Wom

Wom Wom, Wom … Wom

Wom Wom, Wom … Wom

Wom Wom, Wom … Wom

 

Vamp

Yimi Nawe Njalo Nje

 

{BACKING VOCALS}

Wom… Wom… Wom Wom

Yimi Nawe Sakhisizwe

 

{BACKING VOCALS}

Wom… Wom… Wom Wom

Yimi Nawe Njalo Njalo

 

{BACKING VOCALS}

Wom… Wom… Wom Wom

Uwom wom wom wowowowo

 

Uwom wom wom wowowowo

{BACKING VOCALS}

Sakhisizwe

 

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Andisafuni mna ukuzula

Ndihla ndinyuka neetshomi zam 

Andisafuni mna ukuzula,

Ndihla ndinyuka neetshomi zam 

Ebumnandini endandikubo

Iitshomi zam zazidla nam 

 

Ezintlungwini mna endandikuzo

Iitshomi zam zazingekho 

Iyhoo ndivile, ndivile mama,

Ilizwi lakho lalingikhuza 

Ndandingamameli abazali bam  

Ndandingakhathaleli ukunqandwa

Kuzo zonke into ezimbi 

Nakuzo zonke into endandizenza  

 

Thula mama, sukulila 

Thula mama, sukulila mamma 

Ootshomi bam bandishiyile 

Bandishiye kule nyakanyaka 

Thula, thula mama ndivile  

 

Iyhoo ndivile, ndivile mama, 

Ilizwi lakho lalingikhuza 

Ndandingamameli abazali bam  

Ndandingakhathaleli ukunqandwa

Kuzo zonke into ezimbi 

Nakuzo zonke into endandizenza  

Meadowlands, Meadowlands,

Meadowlands Sithandwa sami 

Meadowlands, Meadowlands,

Meadowlands Sithandwa sami 

O tla utlwa

 

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Inkani inkani ebovu

Oh inkani

Inkani inkani ebovu

Oh inkani

Inkani inkani ebovu

Oh inkani

 

Oh oh

Baphela ubuntu bakithi

Oh oh

U’budlelwano abusekho 

Emhlabeni ka mthaniya

Oh oh

Uzwelo alusekho ingabe 

Kwenzenjani bakithi

Oh oh

Usizi Usizi

 

Inkani inkani ebovu

Oh inkani

Inkani inkani ebovu

Oh inkani

 

Oh oh

Baphela ubuntu bakithi

Oh oh

U’budlelwano abusekho 

Emhlabeni ka mthaniya

Oh oh

Uzwelo alusekho ingabe 

Kwenzenjani bakithi

Oh oh

Usizi Usizi

 

Oh oh

Uzwelo alusekho ingabe 

Kwenzenjani bakithi

Oh-Oh

U’budlelwano abusekho 

Emhlabeni Ka mthaniya

Oh-Oh

Uzwelo alusekho 

Emhlabeniingabe kwenzenjani bakithi
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Zikomo zinkomo 

Zinkomo zinkomo

Zikomo zinkomo 

Zinkomo zinkomo

Makoloyanga

 

Zikomo zinkomo 

Zinkomo zinkomo

Zikomo 

Zinkomo zinkomo

Zikomo zinkomo 

Zinkomo zinkomo 

Zikomo zinkomo 

zinkomo zinkomo

 

Aah yeah, eah eah eah

Aah yeah, eah eah eah

 

Ineumoyowanga nifunakupakunipasa 

Makolo yanga

Ineumoyowanga nifunakupakunipasa 

Makolo

 

Aah yeah, eah eah eah

Aah yeah, eah eah

 

Vukaekuseninyonibhabha

Umuya' Wamumoya

 

 

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Attention all passengers

Attention all passengers 

Treni ya 512219 Naledi

To Park Station 

Etlatswa platform 1

Platform 1 Naledi to Park Station 

Platform 1

 

Jikeleza Springs 20519 

First stop Ntlanzani 

E tlatwsa platform 3, 

Jikeleza first stop Ntlanzani 

E tlatswa platform 3

 

Naledi platform one

Naledi platform one

 

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Empty empty empty cassette 

Empty empty empty casette 

Two for R5 empty cassette 

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Ngiwuhambile umhlaba wonke 

Jikelele ohoh
 

Ngifunana nawe

Ngiwuhambile umhlaba wonke 

Jikelele ohoh
 

Ngifunana nawe

 

Ahha ha ahha ha 

Ahha ha

Ahha ha ahha ha 

 

Bika zonke indawo

Ufuna ukuzakha

Ngomphefumulo wakho

 

Biza Bonke abantu bakho

Bakukhaphe okwenyanga

Lomhlaba ngowakho

 

Ahha ha ahha ha 

Ahha ha 

Ahha ha ahha ha

 

Chorus (Both)

They say that it can never happen

They say that it will never be

They say that it's impossible

I know I know I know I can

 

Got to find me a piece of mind

Got to find me a bit of joy 

Got to find me a piece of mind

 

They say that it can never happen

They say that it will never be

They say that it's impossible

I know I know I know I can

 

Ahha ha ahha ha 

Ahha ha 

Ahha ha ahha ha

Executive production and A&R - Laurent Bizot


Artwork - vonMash

Design - Element(s)

 

Produced by Frédéric Soulard

 

Recorded at Studio Figure of 8 (Johannesburg)

from 29th April to 6th May 2019 and 6th to 11th July 2019 

by Frédéric Soulard assisted by Muzi Mabijana

 

And at Downtown Music Hub Studios (Johannesburg)

from 1st to 4th July 2019

by Frédéric Soulard assisted by « Papi » Moalusi Diretse


Mixed at Studio Méchant (Paris) between September and December 2019 by Frédéric Soulard

Mastered at Chab Mastering (Paris) by Chab

  

All songs arranged by Frédéric Soulard

All songs published by Nø Førmat! except Umhlaba Wonke copublished by Nø Førmat! and Universal Music Publishing administrating on behalf of Oneshushuday Publishing

 

Management by Jess White, Akum Agency

Msaki appears courtesy of ALT BLK (Oneshushuday Artistry)

 


Izivunguvungu 

(T.Moloi, L.Lichaba)

 

Simangaliso Dlamini - Bass

Lerato Lichaba - Guitar

Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Vocals, Mbira, Flutes 

Frédéric Soulard - Piano, Farfisa, Drum machine

Sintu Ndzube - Saxophone 

 

 

Dindi 

(T.Moloi, L.Lichaba, S.Dlamini, X.Mtshali)

 

Xolani Mtshali - Drums

Simangaliso Dlamini - Bass

Lerato Lichaba – Guitar

Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Vocals 

Frédéric Soulard, Vincent Taeger - Synths & Rhythm programmation

 

 

Ubaba 

(T.Moloi, L.Lichaba, S.Dlamini, X.Mtshali)

 

Xolani Mtshali - Drums

Simangaliso Dlamini - Bass

Lerato Lichaba - Guitar

Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Vocals, Flutes 

Frédéric Soulard - Synths

Clement Petit - Cello

 

 

Ubusuku 

(T.Moloi)

 

Vincent Taeger - Drums, Percussion

Simangaliso Dlamini - Bass

Lerato Lichaba - Guitar

Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Guitar, vocals

Fredéric Soulard - Synths & Drum machine

Sintu Ndzube - Saxophone

 

 

Madume 

(T.Moloi, L.Lichaba, S.Dlamini, X.Mtshali)

 

Lerato Lichaba - Guitar

Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Vocals, Flutes

Clement Petit - Cello

 

 

Sakhisizwe 

(T.Moloi, L.Lichaba, S.Dlamini, X.Mtshali)

 

Xolani Mtshali - Drums

Simangaliso Dlamini - Bass

Lerato Lichaba – Guitar

Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Vocals, Flutes 

Frédéric Soulard - Piano & Rhythm programmation

 

 

Marabi 

This medley includes Saduva by Mariam Makeba, Meadowlands by Strike David Vilakazi, The Lions Sleeps Tonight by Solomon Linda under the title Mbube, Unomathemba by Joseph Shabalala, Yombela Yombela by Victor Ndlazilwana

 

Xolani Mtshali - Drums

Simangaliso Dlamini - Bass

Lerato Lichaba - Guitar

Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Vocals, Horn 

Fidel Fourneyron - Trombone, horns arrangement

Benjamin Dousteyssier - Saxophone

 

 

Umuthi 

(T.Moloi, L.Lichaba)

 

Xolani Mtshali - Drums

Simangaliso Dlamini - Bass

Lerato Lichaba - Guitar

Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Vocals, Steel guitar 

Frédéric Soulard - Farfisa

 

 

Inkani 

(T.Moloi, L.Lichaba, S.Dlamini, X.Mtshali)

 

Xolani Mtshali - Drums

Simangaliso Dlamini - Bass

Lerato Lichaba - Guitar

Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Vocals, Flute 

 

 

Makolo Yanga 

(T.Moloi, L.Lichaba, S.Dlamini, X.Mtshali)

 

Xolani Mtshali - Drums

Simangaliso Dlamini - Bass

Lerato Lichaba - Guitar

Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Vocals, Horn 

 

 

Empty K-Set

(T.Moloi, L.Lichaba, S.Dlamini, X.Mtshali)

 

Xolani Mtshali - Drums

Simangaliso Dlamini - Bass

Lerato Lichaba - Guitar

Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Vocals, Harmonica 

Sintu Ndzube - Saxophone

 

 

Umlhaba Wonke feat. Msaki 

(T.Moloi, L.Lichaba, A.Mvana)

 

Msaki - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

Tubatsi Mpho Moloi - Acoustic guitar, Vocals

Lerato Lichaba - Electric guitar

 

Msaki appears courtesy of ALT BLK (Oneshushuday Artistry). 

Publishing courtesy of Universal Music Publishing (UMP) administrating on behalf of Onseshushuday Publishing. 

 

Urban Village thanks / Siyabonga


A big thank you to our families for their love and support. Elizabeth & Winston Lichaba, Thulane Shabangu, Bontle Chabe, Veronica Shabangu, Bongi Mtshali, Mamane Keke, Thapelo Mamaila, Jacobeth Dlamini, Thokozile Dlamini, Madala Kunene. Maud Sebola, Mamodise Mailula, Abigail Dawson, Bravo Ngoako, Letsoiyane Mophethe, Andrew Bodibe, Moipone Serame, Khanyisile Mbongwa, Luyanda Samsam, Ingrid Gonclaves, Sawubona Jam Session, The Locrate Market, His & Hers Jams, Lebo’s Backpackers, Soweto Theatre, Oppikoppi, Gareth Wilson, Theresho Selesho, Nicky B, Kenzhero, Basha Uhuru, Untitled Basement, Bradley Williams, The Chairman, Ndabo Langa, Sifiso Ntuli & Roving Bantu Kitchen, Concerts SA, The Morris Isaacson Centre for Music (MICM), Justice Mukheli, Msaki, Nikiwe Dlova, Lloyd-Anthony Smith & the Nirox Foundation, Laurent Bizot, Thibaut Mullings, Frédéric Soulard, Jess White & Akum Agency.

 

 


When you have never known you’re the village of origin, how do you find your roots? For the four musicians of Urban Village, who have known only their gigantic township of Soweto, these traditional roots hidden by buildings and concrete are the source of their music.

 

Soweto, with its million inhabitants, is a city in the city where the black populations from all the South African provinces were penned by apartheid. Attracted by "the city of gold" (Egoli, the Zulu name for Johannesburg), they came to dig the belly of the earth on behalf of the big companies, and formed the first urban proletariat in Africa. Everyone took pieces of their village, their music and their rites to this new town, this new home and from this friction, an original culture was born, that which made Soweto a sprawling urban village. Whilst, others are still digging for that precious metal, the four companions of Urban Village have decided to dig up these mixed legacies of which they are the heirs and share them through music.

 

Born for the most part in the last years of apartheid, they, like all adolescents of their generation, plunged happily into house and dance music that turned the page of a past too heavy, and offered a new skin. But the past had other secrets, carpeted at the corner of the streets of Mzimhlophe, the Soweto neighborhood where they lived. Because it was there, around a workers' home, that Lerato the guitarist heard the Zulu musicians and their very particular style, called maskandi. Something to put him on the track, observing and listening to the "Malumes (Uncles)", that is to say the neighbors of the neighborhood. Lerato learned his instrument on his own, mixing styles from homelands and rural areas to make his own, sharpened in club jam sessions where spoken word, hip-hop and jazz rub shoulders freely. It was in this universe that he met Tubatsi, to which he entrusted a flute and all the dreams it can open, like that of the flute player of Hamelin. The man who soon became the lead singer of Urban Village tamed him, and ended up quitting his job at the bank to jam with the guitarist. He also begins to write, and penned the lyrics of most of the songs on their debut album “Udondolo (Walking Stick)”. This colossus planted like an untamed tree likes to navigate dreamlike spheres, a veteran bugler bugle, PVC rhombes, sanza or even electronic effects making his microphone a surreal vessel for his voice ... Tubatsi seeks in all kinds of instruments the vibrations that resonate with the soul. 

 

In South Africa, music has always been a vector of spiritual as well as political resistance and in the dark hours of apartheid, this powerful mixture took shape in the shadows of churches. This is where Xolani (aka Cush) formed and continues to play drums every Sunday, pushing the faithful into a trance like percussionists do in ancestral ceremonies. God and the ancestors live in the same house, each one wakes them up in their own way. Like Tubatsi, he left his job (he was a debt collector for a while, enough to disgust you for paid work) to devote himself fully to music. Urban Village was missing only one last channel and a bass to ballast their sound: Simangaliso, aka Smash. The youngest of the gang, born when South Africa got rid of apartheid, he studied sound. He too followed the paths of electro before being overtaken by the incredible heritage of Soweto where eras and genres mix: jazz, kwaito, amapiano, house, pop and hip-hop… 

 

All these sounds of the city, these urban villages in Johannesburg, have help them forge a unique style. A powerful folk who carries parabolic texts, sometimes sibylline, as if the old ones had appropriated the codes of today and exchanged proverbs on Whatsapp. They are steeped in the cultural consciousness of yesteryear, including the famous “ubuntu (common humanity)” and Pan Africanism dear to the leaders of the struggles; Winne & Nelson Mandela, Biko, Machel, Mathai, Nkrumah, and Lumumba.

 

As for their music, it sometimes borrows all its energy from rock, from jazz its swing and its free wanderings, from pop its irresistible gimmicks and from the South African soils of choruses and riffs as we do nowhere else. Their first album, recorded at home with the energy of live music and patiently polished in the studio by Frédéric Soulard (Maestro, Limousine, Jeanne Added), is a journey through all the colors of Soweto. This is where it draws its consistency, its strength, and its identity. That of Soweto, a dormitory town designed to better monitor those who were sent there, has become the laboratory of music where the hopes of an entire people resonate, even today. It’s their Urban Village. Hear it.






Udondolo