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Track Listing (30 Second Samples)

1. Talk Becomes A Mantra
2. Siya M'dumisa (We Praise Him)
3. Dream
4. Don't Deny
5. Seed Of Life
6. Music: Insert/Interlude/Skit
7. Open Your Eyes
8. Treasure Island
9. Kalbedevi Road
10. Feel What I Feel
11. Fearless
12. Tula (Friend)
13. Street Vendor
14. Don't Walk Just Wander
15. See Ya Later

TRACKS LISTING:

1. Talk Becomes Mantra: 3:23
Vocalist: Nomvula Malinga
Square Window: 10 Songs for Boys & Girls
Produced/Music & Words by: Andrew Missingham
Electric MELT 1998
Published by MELT 2000 Publishing SA
ELM8002CD

When conversation stops|And talk becomes a mantra|Time to wake and smell the Java|There’s nothing more to say|When interaction snaps|Like second-hand elastic|Then you know it’s getting drastic|When conversation stops|And pregnant pauses give birth|To sickly children stuck indoors|With no one round to play|When talk has got so cheap|You really needn’t bother|Looking for another means|Of giving it away….

The song goes well with Nomvula’s innocent voice (17 years old then-1998), you have to stop and listen. Today, the daughter of South African parents, is in great demand in the London scene where she performs a.o. with Jamrioquiai and Basement Jaxx. From the album: 10 Songs for Boys and Girls by London-based drummer, programmer and producer Andrew Missingham. The album includes tracks such as: Sort of Serenade, Don’t Walk Just Wander (check out track 14 on this album) and The Other Cheek. Ask Me…(One of the songs)…”Urban dance with a drum and bass sensibility.” Composed and arranged by Taiwa’s co-producer of Genes and Spirits and initiator of the first and only Anglo – South African Acid Jazz extravaganza BARUNGWA - drummer Andrew Missingham.


2. Siya M’dumisa (We Praise HIM): 2:48
Moses Taiwa Molelekwa: [ Compositions & Keyboards]
Andrew Missingham: Drum Programming
[Studio version from Genes & Spirits London recording sessions released on the album Wa Mpona and dedicated to the late Piano Genius Taiwa (1973 – 2001) Publishing T.Tones Publishing

Moses never claimed to be a Jazz pianist and many as well as some other musicians whose music is thrown into the Jazz pigeon-hole and shelf because of their genre-less cross over and avant-garde sound. His HIP side is shown in his music, youthful yet firm, especially on “Wa Mpona”[He sees me], an album rear in collections. Siya M’dumisa is one of those songs you have to experience rather than limit to definition. Taiwa Moses Molelekwa was, is Hip. He has inspired and influenced many musicians both in the time of his musical life and his hereafter. Produced and collaborated with hip & happen Kwaito act, TKZee (late 90s), jammed with veteran souls on and off-stage, young, learned and gifted genius from Tembisa town-ship. “Molelekwa felt Hip-Hop big time”, relates friend and journalist and writer, Bongani Madondo both in the times during his musical life and in his hereafter..

3. D.R.E.A.M: 4:56
Floetry: 4 YA 3RD EYE
(MELT) 1998 BW5054
Rap Written & Performed by: The Dream
Produced by: Krishna Booker and The Dream
Percussion & Dream Sounds: Airto Moreira, Bass: Alphonso Johnson
Guitar: Wah Wah Watson and Gabriel J. Lipman
Published by: CHIL DREAM MUSIC (BMI)


The Dream and Krishna have been pushing this DREAM from the seed-womb. Jam-Packed with a nineties beat with an old school Hip-Hop texture to it, it’s a “track” for any Hip mover, B-Boy/Girls in vintage image, street attitudinal give-me-a-ghetto-blaster-and-some-vinyl-mat tip. We must dance to our dreams.

4. Don’t Deny 4:08
Eyedentity from the album Third Eyedentity
Programming and Instruments: Krishna Booker
Vocal: D.Booker aka Decibel
Turntables – Chris Gamez aka Bob NeckSnapp
Published by: CHIL DREAM MUSIC (BMI)
Licensed from Eyedentitymusic Los Angeles
From the album Third-eye-dentity by Eyedentity

Eyedentity is Decibel and Krishna Booker with soul-friend The Dream appearing from time to time. Their innovative debut album, SEE ELM8023CD was first released in 1999. Eyedentity’s sound is progressive [Note] and uniquely Eyedentity; fusing world styles, Hip-Hop, Trip Hop, Acid Jazz to create a Hip receptive sound. Their album “third-eye-dentity” features not only a host of amazing young talents all currently hanging out in Los Angeles but for the first time in a Hip project legendary musicians like Herbie Hancock, George Duke, son Rashid Duke, father/father-in-law and master percussionist Airto Moreira, the diva and of Jazz and mother/mother in law Flora Purim, Meia Noite and Alphonso Johnson as guest raising the questions of: “ Why are we not seeing more collaborations between veterans and youth, young-old, old-young, man-child, the grey and green.” Listen carefully to the lyrics on this track and sing along !! Make sure you check their website www.eyedentitymusic.com or contact Krishna and D. Booker on info@eyedentitymusic.com when he's not busy touring with Sergio Mendes.

5. Seed of Life: 4:20
KWANI EXPERIENCE: The Birth of The MuddaLand Funk 2005
Lady Vocalist: Nosisi Ngakane
Rap Written & Performed by: Kwela Petros Sekele
Background Vocals: Gontse Makhene, Madite Moalusi, Mahlatse Riba, Frank Magongwa
KWANI EXPERIENCE: The Birth of The MuddaLand Funk 2005
Licensed to MELT2000 by SHEER Sound South Africa

Kwani Experience are visitors in the triangle. The band is a new force to emerge out of Jozi in the 21century re-evolution of bands. The octet is Hip, Funky, and African blending sounds from their indigenous cultural and sub-cultural backgrounds, which they dub The Motherland Funk. This composition talks about the relationship between Mothers Earth, the sun, Creation and us, the song coupled out of their 2005 debut album The Birth of The Motherland Funk. They are “what you have heard before, what you haven’t heard and that which you imagine hearing”, in their own words. Kwani Experience music goes with the the term experience, a bit hard to define relying and trusting on your ear and musical influences one picks from hearing and listening. It’s music for everyone.


6. Music: Insert/Interlude/Skit 0:49
Vocal by Diana Booker aka Decibel
Eyedentity: Perfect My Craft
Publishing: Chil Dream Music (BMI)
ELM8032
Published by: CHIL DREAM MUSIC (BMI)


“Music is valueless without emotion. I mean what’s the purpose. You listen to music to get inspired. You listen to music to console yourself, you listen to music to motivate you…I just…Music is a powerful medium and you just have to be honest with, if you are gonna be involved it. Because you influence people whether you like it or not. You just have to be real to what you feel.”

- Diana Booker alias Decibel - Eyedentity

Their second album, Perfect My Craft, is “a challenge of self-discovery for the hard-core, trip hop, funk, Afro-Brazilian, classic & Latin jazz, the project’s subject matter varies from the classic underground”, in their own words.

7. Open Your Eyes 3:56
Romario Mix by: Andrew Missingham
Co-produced by Krishna and Diana Booker
Flora Purim: Now go ahead and open your eyes
( an updated interpretation of a song originally recorded and released on vinyl in 1976 by Milestone)
4 tracks of this re-recorded track was issued in 1994 by MELT on a single C.D with catalogue No. BW5061
Published by BUG MUSIC LTD



Flora - Brazilian Mother of Song and Mother of db. It’s rear to have someone motivate you to “Open your eyes/You can fly”…then demonstrate the flight with her voice taking off with the sound of a seagull, With husband Airto Moreira on percussion and son in law Krishna on the Beat Box, one would confuse him for a staunch subway, corner Rapper/Beat Boxer. Airto has been doing the percussion for ages, grown to school the beat to many Hip-Hopper or skate-boarder. It wouldn’t come as a surprise the thought that this song inspired the rise of the youth of Soweto and apartheid South Africa, it was in the same year that Flora Purim first did the song in 1976. Flora has done collaborations with South African musicians like Madala Kunene on Konko Man and Moses Taiwa Molelekwa on Sogra [Mmatswale]:Genes & Spirits BWSA079. Her voice has earned her two Grammy nominations for Best Female Jazz Performance and Downbeat’s Best Female Singer accolade on four occasions.

8. Treasure Island: 4:23
Jessica Lauren’s Film
Starring: Her, Andrew Kremer on Bass, Winston Clifford on Drums
Thomas Dyani Akuru: Percussions, Neil Yates on Horn
Andrew Ross on Flute, Fahan Hassan – vocals
MELT 2000 release BW2121 -
Copyright Control MCPS UK

Lady of song, makes you start wondering where the female instrumental-
ists are, in their hiding, behind-the-scene, backing projects, soul behind
studio sessions. On her mission to South Africa, the London based keyboar-
dist featured on Pops Mohammed’s “How Far We Have Come” , Cuban master congalero Changuito and Amampondo collaboration song “Ama Poncho” or Mabi Thobejane’s track Madiba.
Want to see a Film? Close your eyes and listen to her music, In the film
there’s a Treasure Island and Jessica Luaren has the map to it. Film has a
cinematic ambience to it.


9. Kalbadevi Road: 4:29
Deepak Ram (Produced & Composed): Searching for Satyam
Patrice Heral plays: Drums & Percussion – Partha Sarathi Murkhejee plays:
Tablas – Aching Tang on Electric & Double-Bass and Deepak Ram on Flute
Published by Haribhaj Music BMI
MELT2000 release catalogue no.BWSA2137

Deepak Ram, the cat from Lenasia, on the outskirts of SOWETO. This southern town of Jozi famous for its Muslim-merchants, mosques and reasonable-price market. A Prince of Melody, he’s unknown, less known, largely unrecognized in this country yet he is part of a music “syndicate” operating internationally, residing in the USA, his earth-based, raw and spiritual bansuri flute playing bears the marks of the teaching of the most influential gurus of Indian classical music yet Deepak shows a contemporary style of playing that made him world famous by his appearances on a couple of Buddha Bar compilation and film music for MATRIX. His music echoes the sounds of Lord Krishna in the open field. Master of the Bansuri Flute, the album: Searching for Satyam [Absolute Truth] achieved him a S.A.M.A.(South African Music Award) in 2000 for Best Instrumental Album. He is instrumental in the evolution of Cross-cultural Indo-Jazz throough amongst other collaborations with groups like TANANAS. Kalbadevi Road is like the Cape Town Long Street or Johannesburg’s Melville’s 7th Street of Mumbai - Hip and happening.

10. Feel What I Feel: 4:45
Eyedentity: Perfect My Craft ELM8032

Composed & Produced by: Krishna Booker
Lyrics: Diana Booker aka Decibel
Published by: CHIL DREAM MUSIC (BMI)


[Chorus]
Do you feel what I feel?|And is it for real?|Don’t try to tell me to feel what
Feel| I’m right I wanna be.



[Verse 1]
Why do you conceal me| You thrill me| You count on me| And then you
Kill me| As I peel away from this lifeless body| The weakest piece of the
Mechanism breaks free| Again you fail to see| That the meek shall inherit
The earth| You cannot take from me my self worth – NO.

[Verse 2]
We exist in a siege of humility|In this age of deconstruction| Running for
cover from the vultures| The only enchanted territory left lies in cracks
between the cultures| Awake yet unaware we dream| Emotion ripping
at the scene| When my heart is full my eyes overflow…

[Verse 3]
Encumbered by selfish insecurities| Also hard to let go |Do not corrupt this
Purity (NO)|Loose the grip and feel the flow|Permeating the bone| Every
molecule of madness still my own| In this great confusion| My control is
merely an illusion| So please pardon mys intrusion


11. Fearless: 3:27
Morpha Blue
Composers: M. Fanciullacci, R.Godel, M.Ziman
Published by MELT 2000 Publishing

From the underground of Brighton, U.K. Who is Morpha Blue?

12. Tsala (Friend): 4:57
Moses Taiwa Molelekwa and Faith Kekana: Genes and Spirits
Taiwa & Andrew Missingham: Backing Vocals – Composed by:
Moses Molelekwa
Frances Reardon: Bass Clarinet – John Hassan:
Percussion – Geoff Gasgoyne: Double Bass
MELT 2000 catalogue no, BWSA079
Publishing T.Tones Publishing


On-stage in Denmark, him and fellow musos: Jaws, Sello Montwedi, Moses Khumalo and the late trombonist Mokone Sengkane bounced to the composition Biko’s Dream on a regular four-count Hip-Hop beat with Taiwa behind the keyboard, banging his head against the air. Faith Kekana, known for her acting is little known as a performer/singer especially by the younger generation. She’s been doing it for ages starting off on the early 90’s with Bra Hugh.

13. Street Vendor: 5:02
Airto Moreira: Homeless BW2140

Written by: Airto Moreira, Diana Booker, Krishna Booker
Drums & Percussion: Airto Moreira & Meita Noite
Keyboards & Programming: Krishna Booker
Backing Vocals: Diana Booker akd Decibel
Lead Vocal: Airto Moreira
Publishing: Chil Dream Music (BMI)
EyeEarToe Music (BMI)

Father of Decibel Diana Booker nee Moreira Purim, started playing from the age of 3. Master percussionist and drummer Airto, his percussive options range from the native Brazilian Berimbau, hundreds of different percussion instruments, traditional drums like surdu and drum kit all the way to the mouth. This veteran cat has played a big role in occupying the avant-garde ear, with sounds strongly rooted in his native home Brazil and contemporary (U.S.A) where he resides. He’s played with giants such as Miles Davis on Bitces Brew, Weather Report which he helped mould, Carlos Santana, George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gilllespie, Chick Corea, Madala Kunene, Quincy Jones and so on ! Note: These are just a few mentioned. His composition “Maracatu” was one of the official for the 2002 Soccer World Cup in Asia opening the ceremonies in Japan. “This album is for the year 2000 and way beyond. It’s true Tribal Dance, and although partly influenced by my home country, Brazil, The MUSIC has no borders of frontiers – It’s truly HOMELESS!” – Airto Moreira.


14. Don’t Walk Just Wander (Radio Edit) 4:00
Square Window – 10 Songs for Boys and Girls
ELM 8002
Published by MELT 2000 PUBLISHING SA
(see track 1 for more info )



15. See Ya Later: 7:07
Airto Moreira: Revenge of the Killer Bees
(New ’98 Mix by: Jimpster)
ELM8012CD
Published by: EyeEarToe Music (BMI)

The original track to this remix was released in1993 with veterans Chick
Corea on piano and synthesizers, Mark Egan on fretless bass and Gary
Meek on sax. The album, “Airto Moreira and Gods of Jazz – Killer Bees” recorded
between years 1989 and 1993 included other living legends
namely Herbie Hancock, Flora Purim, Hiram Bulock, Stanley Clark and
Airto himself. The original album was recorded during jam sessions in Santa Barbara California, an idea born out of Airto’s zest and “itch to play some free music with his mates from the days of touring with Miles Davia !

Art Directed by Nick Hauser
Compiled by: Kwela Petros Sekele of Kwani Experience