5 Things we know so far about The Soil’s Nostalgic Moments #NostalgicMOments
1.The Nostalgic Moments album drops on the 22nd on the 22nd September
2. Nostalgic Moments features Grammy nominated, Ladysmith Mambazo
3. The collaboration with Ladysmith Mambazo called Hamba Uyosebenza was recorded in Durban.
4. Other songs on the Nostalgic Moments are Ndibambe kanje, #We Are One (Celebrate Humanity) and #Suzan featuring Khuli Chana
5. If you Love “Lonely Nights” from The Soil’s previous album you definitely going to love a song called Before(magical kiss) on the latest Nostalgic Moments album
About the group
The Group: Meet The Soil: a 4-member acapella singing group whose music can best be described as ‘Kasi Soul’. The Soil strives to fuse their voices to deliver melodic and harmonious messages that are aimed at uplifting and healing souls all around the world.
The first member of the group exists in a spiritual form as The Creator of all. The other three members of the group take a physical form: Buhlebendalo Mda, Luphindo Ngxanga, and Ntsika Fana Ngxanga, who are occasionally also supported by two backing vocalists, Asanda and Tshwarelo.
The Soil claims they are simply channels of the songs that they believe come to them from a sacred place where they just serve as mediums that help carry the message through.
Members
Buhlebendalo Mda aka Buhle
Buhlebendalo Mda aka Buhle: This Soweto-born and only female member of the group has always loved music and the attention that comes with it. For Buhle, The Soil completes her life puzzle: it’s her second home. Her life long dream has always been to work with the likes of the Late and Great Gogo Mirriam Makeba, Mama Busi Mhlongo. Thandiswa Mazwai, Simphiwe Dana, Ringo Madlingozi, Gloria Bosman, and Hlengiwe Mhlaba, just to name a few.
Buhle describe herself or her music as soulful or “Jazzy fizzle”, which is considered to be a mixture of all sorts of genres from which she has created her own soulful or “Jazzy fizzle”. To Buhle all genres do it for her, as they tend to match her every mood.
Ntsika Fana Ngxanga
Ntsika Fana Ngxanga aka Da FanArtistc: Also dreamt of being on stage as early as primary schooling years and used school desks as drums and turned every song into dance music, and transforming the classical jazz songs that he grew up being exposed to into his own musical world. Ntsika got introduced to clap and tap music, “apostolic gospel music”, and learnt to sing from the heart, add emotion to the very voice one was blessed with, and how to connect with music in its totality and the art of backing.
The defining moment for Ntsika was when he started dreaming and receiving songs in his sleep which he coins “something very heavenly and humbling”, which he embraced as a Gift and God’s medium through which he was to pass messages of love, hope, courage, faith, joy, peace and happiness amongst many.
Luphindo Ngxanga
Luphindo Ngxanga aka Master P: considers himself the friendliest and warmest member of the group. Contrary to his masculine beatbox prowess with which he meticulously kicks the bass drum and snare, accompanied by his harmonic basslines, Luphindo is a humanitarian in the group and loves to see the members happy all the time. Luphindo uses his fine arts academic training to think differently and seeing things in perspective which he then applies in the construction of ideas in the songs The Soil finally puts together. Luphindo is the ‘artist for shizy’.
