Gospel meets Township jazz. They have an amazing sense of rhythm that even a “verdomte soutie” can appreciate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4HJfcecgos
This still remains one of my favourite – BTW the singer is a Rhodesian. The “Penny Whistle” is almost synonymous with Township “Kwela” music.
Great stuff!
KG, I nearly scrolled past this. Glad I didn’t. Bloody good music and I loved it. It is eternally frustrating to me that there is so much to see, hear and know about that I will die not having seen, heard or known about everything. Impossible of course but isn’t life interesting!
I want to know about everything, Mara.
Time is the problem, eh?
Echt mooi.
I love African gospel. There is some very moving about these videos. You see decent, upright people filled with the Spirit.
Is it any wonder that Western Christianity seems so dry, so spiritless, literally? A pastor I knew spent his first month’s after divinity school in a black church in St. Louis, Missouri. He said his black friends called white churches “Owl homes” where people sit rigid in their seats and only move their heads.
And he was right, Colonel.
You see decent, upright people filled with the Spirit.
I’ve seen such moments in my desultory church attendance over the years. There are some hymns that just take the roof off and others that make me wish I’d brought a pillow. I long ago posted a video of a large Welsh church, I think it was, singing a powerful hymn that I loved. I don’t see it anymore, alas.
All in all, I’d say the life is just not there in Christianity. The personality and learning of the pastor is make or break it seems, and the singing is focused on the choir with congregation as a weak supplement.
The most joyful service I ever attended was in a tiny Christian Science church in Michigan one summer. It was quite exhilarating though, sadly, rare in my experience.
Excellent!
South African Christians?
Paul Simon graceland album
https://youtu.be/UzZu25QukYs
Gospel meets Township jazz. They have an amazing sense of rhythm that even a “verdomte soutie” can appreciate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4HJfcecgos
This still remains one of my favourite – BTW the singer is a Rhodesian. The “Penny Whistle” is almost synonymous with Township “Kwela” music.
Great stuff!
KG, I nearly scrolled past this. Glad I didn’t. Bloody good music and I loved it. It is eternally frustrating to me that there is so much to see, hear and know about that I will die not having seen, heard or known about everything. Impossible of course but isn’t life interesting!
I want to know about everything, Mara.
Time is the problem, eh?
Echt mooi.
I love African gospel. There is some very moving about these videos. You see decent, upright people filled with the Spirit.
Is it any wonder that Western Christianity seems so dry, so spiritless, literally? A pastor I knew spent his first month’s after divinity school in a black church in St. Louis, Missouri. He said his black friends called white churches “Owl homes” where people sit rigid in their seats and only move their heads.
And he was right, Colonel.
You see decent, upright people filled with the Spirit.
May seem a bit hokey and staged to some, but I see the same here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwhBObyoyO8
Yes, they are. Thanks.
I’ve seen such moments in my desultory church attendance over the years. There are some hymns that just take the roof off and others that make me wish I’d brought a pillow. I long ago posted a video of a large Welsh church, I think it was, singing a powerful hymn that I loved. I don’t see it anymore, alas.
All in all, I’d say the life is just not there in Christianity. The personality and learning of the pastor is make or break it seems, and the singing is focused on the choir with congregation as a weak supplement.
The most joyful service I ever attended was in a tiny Christian Science church in Michigan one summer. It was quite exhilarating though, sadly, rare in my experience.
This was popular around Christmas time
https://youtu.be/a0mT-zNxRMw