Guiding Star
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Naledi Ya Tsela | |||||
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Studio album by Vusi Mahlasela | |||||
Released | March 6, 2007 | ||||
Genre | World Music | ||||
Length | 1:07:43 | ||||
Label | Mmino Wa Tshwane Music | ||||
Producer | Lloyd Ross | ||||
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Vusi Mahlasela chronology | |||||
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Naledi Ya Tsela, (Sesotho for Guiding Star, the title under which it is released internationally) is Vusi Mahlasela's sixth studio album. Songs on the album are sung in five languanges: English, Sepedi, Sesotho, isiZulu, and seTswana. There also a number of guest singers, including Dave Matthews and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and many other guest performers - whose contributions are not listed in the tracks only in the liner notes.
The album deals with a number of topics. For example River of Jordan is about the death of his mother, and Song for Thandi is about the (South African) freedom fighter Thandi Modise.
[edit] Track listing
- "Jabula"
- "Heaven in my Heart" (featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
- "Moleko"
- "Chamber of Justice" (featuring Xavier Rudd)
- "Tibidi Waka" (featuring Derek Trucks)
- "Everytime" (featuring Jem)
- "Sower of Words" (featuring Dave Matthews)
- "Ntombi Mbali"
- "River Jordan"
- "Song for Thandi"
- "Mighty River"
- "Thula Mama"
- "Our Sand"
- "Tonti"
- "Susana"
- "Pata Pata" (Bonus Track)