Music (ZA): Skeleton Move by Master KG ft. Zanda Zakuza

Zanda Zakuza's profound and nostalgia-inducing intonation -- "Remember the road that will lead you home" -- drives the entire ajenda in this enigmatic song. And this despite the fact that the Skeleton Move clip seems primarily intended to highlight, and to continue, the pure-form -- the uncluttered -- sensation of body texts (of dance) so characteristic of South African pop music today. Her voice drives home the simple but easy to forget idea that home, wherever it be and whatever form or shape it may take, frames all our lives and all our orientations. This soaring, hi-spirited 2018 song carries with it all the mirth and mythology, known and unknown, that the very idea of home, truly missed, ignites. 

Here's the clip of Skeleton Move by Master KG ft. Zanda Zakuza

The pitch here is not simply to never forget -- forget in a cerebral or abstract or plainly existential sense -- your rooted place of abode. It is, instead, and more deeply even, to remember (nay, to know) that very same road, at once proverbial and real, which, when the time and the urge to go comes from whichever direction, leads you back to (and even past) what nest it is in whatever locale that's truly home. Home as the homing-pigeon, with an earnest heart, knows and finds and understands as its own -- its one and only One in all of the universe. In the end, you've got to know where to stop.

There's another dimension to the music that deeply moves, in its sung and danced forms -- in its multiple and manifest texts -- that truly captivates and immerses. It is the body-and-soul exhilaration of being home, of being there, of being back; amidst all that's familiar and all that's changed. It frames the visual and auditory vignettes in the rest of the song. The spirit moves the reunited to another realm, truly. Dance moves that would otherwise have remained trapped in their own unrelenting cliche acquire a different and richer, and enriching, purpose. And an especial freedom.