The Defragmentations of Roots Grown Deep

by Joel Karabo Elliott

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Seed2fire Defragmentation s of roots .
For me ,is poetic truth s which leaves you lingering for more
Wondering of the mysteries behind all their stories ?
Yesss it sure does take you away ,
with such grooves .
I dance and cry ..
Tethered ..is a speech that leaves me ...speechless ..which is saying alot!

Worn out dream's
I can relate , sounds like a place I have been .
Every track is gold .
If you love story telling ,
Then cosy close with your loved ones and open your ears and hearts

🌱🔥 Favorite track: Nokeng.

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1.	Round The World 05:47	buy track
2.	Lamentations Of A Missionary 03:37	buy track
3.	Damascus Road 04:24	buy track
4.	Answer From The Sky 06:31	buy track
5.	Tethered 03:56	buy track
6.	Worn Out Dream 06:54	buy track
7.	Three Legged Cats & One Eyed Drummers 02:40	buy track
8.	. . . but there is a fire 02:50	buy track
9.	Nokeng 05:55	buy track

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'The Defragmentations' 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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In truth, the going forward may be the going backward, but the remainder is ambition petrified by time.

Living in harmony with the land defragments the mind. Distinctions and definitions fall away, and language becomes musical rather than definitive. As I weary of the ideological battles waged through politics and religion, I turn back to that which was always within me...music and faith. Slowly I awake from a modern slumber in which institutions have lordship over my decision-making and a faux intelligence disguises insecurity. Welcome nakedness. Unfold lost history and herstory. I fall in love with our humanity, our agency, and the essential sameness we all share and see clearly when we face one another and the earth, living in competition with neither.

These song-poems are the outcries and defragmentations of a painful pregnancy giving birth to true nature. In the dogged pursuit of perfection I had become uprooted, only to find that I am a tree and the only way I can feed my self is from the earth. Slowly I grow, giving and taking in equal measure. Balance in love is the only destination of this aFREAKan unlearning. - jKe

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

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released March 27, 2013

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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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