A Platform for Ethnically and Culturally Inspired Music
About "Igula LamaQinisO "
Igama lami yigula lamaqiniso means my name is a calabash of truths. iSabelo saBafana iSabelo seSizwe. iSabelo sabaNtwana. iSabelo... My mother is an artist. She arts ngama Gama.
Ekhaya, I watched her work life into flat words, nase sontweni. Holding the air like a bird. Precise with every note. Giving and nurturing. uMam' Mkhokheli we Sunday School. My mother looked after children at the Swedish Free Church when I was a kid. Once she asked me to name the opening evangelists ku New Testament. And I did. "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John held the horse while I got on." It was also at this moment that I realized the role of istory in my remembering the names. This realization would later burden the Bald-I with questions. Where does this knowledge of abo Matthew put me, if I do not know the stories that inform the names immediate to mine? What does Sabelo mean before my sister's name? What's the relationship with the names of my brothers? What's the story? Is there a story?
Ngale kwabo malume nogogo, I wanted to know about the names in my mother's branch of the family tree. My interest was nest immediate. Where she is the maqhuzu matriarch. Lapho kuzwakala khona iphimbo lakhe before anything. Sibaw' 4 ku mama. But yena, ukhulise more than 20 children. Family kids. Neighborhood kids. Kids of kids. Njalo njalo. Kepha abakhe ngokwe s'beletho, sibaw' 4. That is 4 humans that she was given the responsibility of "naming". A responsibility she carries with the meticulousness of the air holding artist she is. From izibulo eliyi Peacemaker to the last born where she emerges Victorious, my mother uses names like beats to tell her story. The names of those who lived under her roof tell a moving story of a contemplative caregiver with a deep love for children. It's all in the names.
Igula LamaQinisO is my son's favorite joint kwi SPIN VENEK.
dedicated to the one I came from.
Ekhaya, I watched her work life into flat words, nase sontweni. Holding the air like a bird. Precise with every note. Giving and nurturing. uMam' Mkhokheli we Sunday School. My mother looked after children at the Swedish Free Church when I was a kid. Once she asked me to name the opening evangelists ku New Testament. And I did. "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John held the horse while I got on." It was also at this moment that I realized the role of istory in my remembering the names. This realization would later burden the Bald-I with questions. Where does this knowledge of abo Matthew put me, if I do not know the stories that inform the names immediate to mine? What does Sabelo mean before my sister's name? What's the relationship with the names of my brothers? What's the story? Is there a story?
Ngale kwabo malume nogogo, I wanted to know about the names in my mother's branch of the family tree. My interest was nest immediate. Where she is the maqhuzu matriarch. Lapho kuzwakala khona iphimbo lakhe before anything. Sibaw' 4 ku mama. But yena, ukhulise more than 20 children. Family kids. Neighborhood kids. Kids of kids. Njalo njalo. Kepha abakhe ngokwe s'beletho, sibaw' 4. That is 4 humans that she was given the responsibility of "naming". A responsibility she carries with the meticulousness of the air holding artist she is. From izibulo eliyi Peacemaker to the last born where she emerges Victorious, my mother uses names like beats to tell her story. The names of those who lived under her roof tell a moving story of a contemplative caregiver with a deep love for children. It's all in the names.
Igula LamaQinisO is my son's favorite joint kwi SPIN VENEK.
dedicated to the one I came from.
