The vocals on this track are piercing. The voice is so definitely and authentically Xhosa. Even though you may translating the meaning of the words there is no way to translate the raw Xhosa angst in the lines. How she easily glides on the bass and ascends with every emotion of the beat. My heart gets overwhelm and gets full with this unrecognizable energy…
and then she returns in the next stanza and wails …"its so hard to love someone who does not love you back". The lyric itself is not an English translation of what she pleads in Xhosa on the first verse…it is another emotion that goes off on a tangent and drags my heart along.
Buya, please return my love. I have been waiting for you for so long Return to me my love…
Thank you, This is Black Coffee. I need to hear more from Toshi…( I love her voice)
The vocals on this track are piercing. The voice is so definitely and authentically Xhosa. Even though you may translating the meaning of the words there is no way to translate the raw Xhosa angst in the lines. How she easily glides on the bass and ascends with every emotion of the beat. My heart gets overwhelm and gets full with this unrecognizable energy…
and then she returns in the next stanza and wails …"its so hard to love someone who does not love you back". The lyric itself is not an English translation of what she pleads in Xhosa on the first verse…it is another emotion that goes off on a tangent and drags my heart along.
Buya, please return my love.
I have been waiting for you for so long
Return to me my love…
Thank you, This is Black Coffee.
I need to hear more from Toshi…( I love her voice)
aow siyabonga malume.
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