Defining South African Music: Musicians & Aficionados Speak

Spirits are Malombo (in Tsavenda) or Malopo (in Sepedi) , the essence essential of the life force commonly called cosmic energy. Malombo is composed of all that is perceivable outside the five senses where the mystics dwell and reign in peace, that fear-free zone. Music of the Spirits is our organ for perceiving the ethereal. The element that manifests your sixth sense, the essence essential of your isness. Music of the Spirits is the nature of nature as a healing force, the pulse of the ocean, the heaving of seashells, the sneezing of breezes, that sooth the sooth-sayer’s visions.

- Lefifi Tladi