Slog - Comments on Dead Sugar http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/poor_dead_sugar Late last week I purchased Thomas Mapfumo's Chimurenga Forever ("chimurenga" means revolution) to enjoy two songs that were missing from the "black Africa” playlist in my music machine: one, "Hondo" (Shona's meaty word for war) and, two, "Nyarara Mukadzi Wangu" (which is an excellent fairy tale about a young woman who is tricked into marrying a giant snake by an old evil woman who adopted the giant snake as her son). After exhausting those songs, I looked around the CD and discovered a third, "Hanzvadzi" ("Sister”), which I immediately recognized as one of Mapfumo's highest artistic achievementsnot only because of... Copyright 2007 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:26:21 -0800 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:31:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Nick Charles and readers, I've posted “Hanzvadzi” on my blog, Trrill.com (you can get to it by clicking my name--Nick--just below). It's a gorgeous piece that deserves to be appreciated along with this considerate and elegantly-worded post.


]]> Nick http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/poor_dead_sugar#c061149 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/poor_dead_sugar#c061149 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:55:22 -0800 Comment by SeMe Youre right Nick, thats a great tune.
Thx man.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/poor_dead_sugar#c061337 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/poor_dead_sugar#c061337 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:20:11 -0800 Comment by Seme Looks like he died of diabetes.

http://www.zimaudio.com/artistPage.php?artistSent=Ashton%20Sugar%20Chiweshe%20and%20The%20Batonga%20Crew

]]> Seme http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/poor_dead_sugar#c061359 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/03/poor_dead_sugar#c061359 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:31:28 -0800