If you've been directed to this page as a result of the 'underground' promotional effort to publicize the opportunity to experience and hear this music up close and personal, read on. Or, if your curiosity leads you further, read on!

The question arises if you wonder about the deep impact the experience of music makes, "Really, how can music do that?"

There really isn't a very esoteric answer to this question. Music works on the level of feeling. If we talk about anything that is, for example, heart-warming, we're also regarding something which makes us feel. So, the answer is easy on the surface: music may make us feel and this feeling is the point of contact and maybe even the point of deep contact. Obviously, all sorts of things make us feel too. Everybody knows even stuff that isn't good for us can not only evoke negative feelings, but may evoke positive feelings too.

Enjoyment is a kind of a key. Attraction! It unlocks a door. And this door leads into a hallway with lots of other doors. Huge enjoyment, the kind of warm feeling which can literally overtake us, have us laugh out loud, cry, even make us dizzy, is another kind of key and it might be said that it opens a door on the second floor. It is because doors open up to other doors, that the journey embarked upon when one is transported by their feelings is -optimally- a conscious process. After all, you don't want to fall down the basement steps or out of the attic window, right?

By its nature, rooted in perennial African tradition, the music of Abdullah Ibrahim is the vehicle for designs aimed to put some keys in the listener's hands. What level of energy is evoked is a matter of openness and awareness of the listener. Spontaneous attraction, then conscious feeling! Yet, it is important to note that the potential contact point is a lock in a door deep in our human sensibility. The artist himself is well aware of how this all works; one reason why his music has been setting listeners upon heart-felt journeys for so many decades and also the primary reason why this music has become so central a peoples' music in South Africa and around the world.

It goes (almost without saying) that for anyone who is on their own journey of creativity and awareness, an encounter with this music is very likely going to be worthwhile. May God Will it so!

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