Album: Look, Listen and Decide (1986)

Una bellissima canzone del gruppo Stimela del chitarrista Ray Phiri, che proprio nel 1986 raggiungeva la notorietà internazionale grazie alla collaborazione con Paul Simon nell'album Graceland (vedi anche Homeless).

To survive apartheid and indeed any other oppressive regimes across the world, creative musicians went deeper into metaphor and imagery.

This made it easier for groups such as Stimela to evade scrutiny from the apartheid South African regime because on the surface, the song was just a song but deeper, it was a hard-hitting revolutionary tune about the people’s troubles at the hands of the oppressive regime.

Most of their songs depict lovers yearning for a reunion as well as the desire to work together as a people and not as races.

Led by Ray Phiri, most of Stimela’s songs were profound and enthralling. There is one song ‘Whispers in the... (continua)