The Outcries of Roots Grown Deep, by Joel Karabo Elliott

The Outcries of Roots Grown Deep

by Joel Karabo Elliott

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Seed2fire Very hard to choose my favourite songs,
As I am always fully captured by the stories each song unravels .
Enflamed heart....
This piano piece, plays to my own heartbeat with soothing strokes .
Modimo Re lale pula
Brings out my own free , nomadic fireful spirit
As if ,I was on their journey personally .
I am clicking and dancing away with them in my heart .
When I hear this album ,
I can climb inside the musical wandering with these minstrels of medicine music
🌱🔥🌈 Favorite track: Modimo Re Llela Pula.

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1.	Open Country 06:59	info	buy track
2.	Holdin' Out 05:24		buy track
3.	Modimo Re Llela Pula 04:24		buy track
4.	Endangered Species 04:42		buy track
5.	There's A New Light 04:18	info	buy track
6.	Pignecked 05:14		buy track
7.	Sweet Sad Songs 06:22	info	buy track
8.	Broken Open 08:12		buy track
9.	Enflamed At Heart 03:26		buy track
10.	Reason Or A Rhyme 03:19	info	buy track
11.	Within Each Of Us Is An Animal And A Child 05:49		buy track

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'The Outcries' are part of the first two movements of Roots Grown Deep, JKE's musical story of unlearning, awakening and ascension. From the pavements of America to the river valleys of the Limpopo in South Africa . . .

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What are ‘roots’ exactly? People search for them in family, in home, in history. We of the Diaspora seem forever in search of them, pining for our source of personal meaning in an epoch preferring various forms of mental and physical colonization. Yet it seems to me that roots are not something to found like a lost trinket or forgotten story. Roots are something you grow whenever and wherever you are ready.

The music of Roots Grown Deep is my testimony of unlearning . . . the rumblings of an ancestral hunger manifested within myself as the need to taste an older, more authentic way of living. A U.S. American by birth and culture, I struggled to taste an integrated life in the modern cities and suburbs of my youth. I felt all the contradictions. Discontent with the hollowness of reigning systems, I was also a product of them, bearing in my consciousness and personality all the blessings and curses of modern education, patriotic consumerism and rugged individualism. Eventually I was compelled to seek the most ancient soil, the place of elders and extended family and life lived on the land. Here we experience daily life as unfolding drama rather than rationalization, as a redemption discovered in community more than a salvation found autonomously.

As I lived the elemental simplicity of Limpopo village life…bathing ko Leppelleng, sharing meals around the fire, singing songs of tragedy, love and praise, planting trees and giving them to thousands of households…I finally experienced a life in which spirituality is not a pursuit or belief but is the living fabric itself. - jKe

Produced by Joel Karabo Elliott
Recorded & mixed by Harold Kolkman and Chris Mocke in Makgobaskloof, Limpopo, South Africa

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released December 12, 2012

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Joel Karabo Elliott (jKe) is an Amer-Afrikan composer, musical healer and steward of the global ensemble Roots Grown Deep. Joel's instrumental versatility and unique blend of guitar, voice, winds, piano and percussion gives his music the feeling of a focused wandering between the American and African continents. ... more

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