Thandiswa - Sankofa (2024) [Hi-Res]

Slow horns, piano and Mazwai’s soulful vocals weave around recordings of Steve Biko, Miriam Makeba and South African parliamentary figures in this political, complex jazz-inflected reflection on the country today.

Award winning musician Thandiswa returns to Artscape after her sold-out show in 2023 with music from her new album Sankofa (to be launched in May 2024

Sankofa is a Twi word from the Akan people of Ghana. It means to “go back and fetch what has been left behind.” In our journeys we may lose our sense of self, our history, our will to fight. We may lose language or ways of being. Sankofa invites us to go back and fetch what has been lost so that we can return whole. Recorded in Johannesburg, Dakar, and New York, Sankofa combines archival Xhosa music, jazz and west African music. Largely developed with co-composer Tendai Shoko, it includes tracks produced by Meshell Ndegeocello and Nduduzo Makhatini.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Thandiswa - sabela (6:52)
1.02 - Thandiswa - Biko speaks (4:34)
1.03 - Thandiswa - emini (6:50)
1.04 - Thandiswa - kunzima: dark side of the rainbow (4:11)
1.05 - Thandiswa - interlude (0:45)
1.06 - Thandiswa - Dogon (4:47)
1.07 - Thandiswa, Nduduzo Makhathini - kulungile (5:47)
1.08 - Thandiswa - with love to Makeba (5:55)
1.09 - Thandiswa - children of the soil (6:27)
1.10 - Thandiswa, Thandi Ntuli - xandibona wena (4:03)
1.11 - Thandiswa - fela khona (4:03)