Raise Your Spirit Higher: Wenyukela

Artist: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Label: Heads Up
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 053361308322
EAN: 0053361308322
ASIN: B00014X8AY

Release Date: 2004-01-27

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Tracks:

Wenyukela (Raise Your Spirit Higher)
Uqinisil' Ubada (Lord Is The Light And Truth)
Selingelethu Sonke
Wangibambezela (Message From His Heart)
Wenza Ngani? (How Did You Do That?)
Udidekil' Umhlaba (Lord's Work)
Iyahlonipha Lengane
Wamlul' Umshado (Beautiful Wedding)
Because I Love
Black Is Beautiful
Music Knows No Boundaries
Fak' Ibhande (Don' Drink And Drive)
Tribute

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Customer Reviews:

Highly recommended.......2005-05-30

This is a real 5 star disc - both sonically and musically.
A great fun to listen to.
There is a SACD version available.

Rising above all adversity, this album shines........2004-12-11

The seed of creativity is often planted with the influences of adversity and oppression. As the individual is stricken by tragedy the fertilized seed sprouts; tapping internal strengths and consolidating them into an increasingly focused goal. From their South-African inception nearly four decades ago, Joseph Shabalala has grown Ladysmith Black Mambazo from a dream to a bicentennial Redwood, cathartically expressing his hardship and joys with each subsequent masterpiece. Shabalala's soul faced the ultimate test during the making of "Raise Your Spirit Higher (Wenkyukela)" released January 24, 2004. In the Spring of 2002, his wife Nellie of 30 years was murdered in a Church parking lot by a masked gunman. To date, no conviction has been made. Despite the overwhelming grief and angst that accompanies such a profound loss, Joseph has chosen to stay faithful to his beliefs and reiterates their universal messages of peace and love with this record. "At the time that this happened, I tried to take my mind deep into the spirit, because I know the truth is there," says Shabalala, "In my flesh, I might be angry, I might cry, I might suspect somebody. But when I took my mind into the spirit, the spirit told me to be calm and not to worry. Bad things happen, and the only thing to do is raise your spirit higher." He keeps his wife's spirit and memory alive to those who will listen, his being steadfast and faith unshaken. - All content copyright www.maximumink.com

Raise Your Spirit Higher.......2004-10-07

Ladysmith Black Mambazo's latest CD does just that -- it raises your spirit higher. This CD was released during the tenth anniversary of the end of apartheid and is, in part, a celebration of a new era. The songs Selingelethu Sonke, Wenza Ngani and Black Is Beautiful, in particular, fit this celebratory theme. All of the thirteen songs are spiritually and socially conscious as well as uplifting. Many of the songs are sung in the Zulu language. Five songs are sung either in English or mostly in English. This group has an incredible ability to convey much needed sentiments and messages through their complex, beautiful a capella harmonies and gentle palillogy. They prove that music truly knows no boundaries. Don't miss the final track where Joseph Shabalala's grandsons sing a tribute to their late grandmother which they wrote in order to encourage him after her death. NGIYABATHANDA LABAFANA! I love these guys.

Great CD.......2004-02-13

This CD is one of the best that I have ever heard. The way that they sing really speaks to me. Hearing those harmonies run together to from a wall of sound that is like nothing that I have ever heard before, and it moves my soul to places that I thought were long ago killed. This CD is an uplifting event that everyone should take the time to purchase and enjoy for the rest of their lives.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo is B A C K !!!!.......2004-02-06

Yes, LBM is back in full form. Somehow they "un-Simonized" themselves and have returned to what they do best -- Purely African, Zulu, impeccable acapella singing that cannot be more "purrrrfect." When I decided to collect this group's albums, I found myself disappointed as they seemed to stray more and more away from their roots. But now they have returned in full glory. The excellent engineering on the album augments the beauty of their soothing harmonies and gently pressing presentation. LBM, if you read this, I have a request: Please, do an album like this at least once every year!

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