Guitarist Paul Carlos and I were playing music after doing some yoga. I was experimenting to see how long I could play just one note without it becoming boring, and that’s how this song started. I had one of those passionate, plaintive Cape songs in mind, and was trying to express that in the colour of the notes, rather than in the changing of the notes and chords.
credits
from Two Voices,
track released November 12, 2010
Written by Wouter Kellerman and Paul Carlos
Arrangement/Piano/Accordion/Programming: Melissa van der Spuy
Drums: David Klassen
Electric Bass: Schalk Joubert
Classical guitar: Mauritz Lotz
Backing vocals: Margaret Motsage, Lulama Qanabisa, Nonhlanhla Radebe, Melissa van der Spuy , Elvis Mongezi Hermans
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