Bantu Spaceship - Bantu Cakes
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Bantu Spaceship - "Bantu Cakes" from the 2023 album Bantu Spaceship on Nyami Nyami
Harare, Zimbabwe-based duo Bantu Spaceship celebrates the music of their homeland with their Afro-futuristic self-titled debut album, out now via Nyami Nyami. Vocalist Ulenni Okandlovu incorporates Ndebele chants to the laid-back production work of his partner Joshua Madalitso Chiundiza. As they explain in an interview with 15questions.net, "The both of us were in search of unique alternative Zimbabwean sound, having grown up listening to Mbaqanga, Mbube, Zamrock, Sungura, Jit, and Chimurenga. We wanted to create something that borrowed from these influences, but merging those styles with synth-wave, electro, and hip-hop elements."
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, do you're so much truth, this space groups of us. |
| 0:07.0 | Space groups of us. |
| 0:09.0 | So tired, it's the baby I in my face. This is what working days of a upper up a building mountain. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm so high, he is so low when I'm so high, peace or low when God is it. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm so high, |
| 0:40.0 | pay so low when I see. |
| 0:45.0 | I said, |
| 0:46.0 | I said, Ma, to gravity, |
| 0:48.0 | coch you these teas and seas, |
| 0:50.0 | overseas, |
| 0:52.0 | in the up over the moon Mars |
| 0:55.0 | so credit or mud or mud or banda |
| 0:58.0 | here we too be sosha |
| 1:00.0 | ufe mottopo do my dut-dut, the one-bokusaka, |
| 1:05.0 | a little way for paper or forever. |
| 1:08.0 | Sajana, |
| 1:10.0 | Sianiza, |
| 1:11.0 | Siza, Siza, Siza, I see my name my eyes as a child |
| 1:13.4 | and he's a schnya sesame |
| 1:17.0 | see me |
| 1:18.0 | got a sie sie kays |
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