Shekhinah's 'Suited' Love

Suited is a song of deepest commitment, earnestly sung by this iconic but still mysterious South African singer, Shekhinah. "Suited for each other", she declares to her lover, though she fears they may be just a little too young still.

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Her singing is polished, and it is accomplished. But in Suited one also detects a 'haunted' voice, projected hauntingly, in this world that's still full of dreams and innocence -- but that's already fodder for the singer's awakening combativeness. 

That is, the singing character, personified by Shekhinah, is troubled by doubt -- about such surprises as life may have in hidden store: like yanking her lover away with no notice. Her song, her ballad, is a story -- about a relationship. And so that would be a tragedy of all tragedies.

But the video, what with a super-sensitive artist's eye for angle and visual impression, is also about performance and hanging out with friends. Taking selfies. Swaying to group-sing. People privately pivoting, in all that mix, to the loves of their individual lives. 

One may want to get away from some of all this, but no one wants to be too far. Certainly not the singer, fronted by the only Shekhinah we know in this story. "What a love..."

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MUSIC: Counting Blessings with Mixzy

With the sun fixing to set in the West as it does, as if rendered thus just for now by the knowing hand of a master artist, this whole music video, directed by C.A.R.D.O.S.O, presents as a super-inspired jollity. As vignettes, hints only perhaps, of the good life in a hidden ecosystem.

The song's all-enveloping tone, vocal and instrumental, lifts and uplifts, rendering the brief moment in life it fills with itself a monumental experience; a festivity that'll linger and linger in the hearts of all who are blessed to hear it. 

It's a ritual of happiness. Of joy. Happiness and Champagne. Naughty dare-devilry. Some sort of cool fertility dance, too -- in the light of whatever it is that's celebrated, and in anticipation of its own aftermath. 

Listen to the guitar's perfectly timed punctuating! "Sikia namuna gitaa iko naliya," as a famous Congolese once upon a time sang, caught up in a sort of aural selfie.

No one can take your blessings away in this charmed set-up, this microcosm of engagement and mirth, this subtle detour; this enchanting tribute to life as it ought to be spiced, now and then, when all is done for the moment and all is well. Down with all those who try! 

It's a wonderful song. Look how happiness spreads across them faces, one by one! And, yes, no one can stop it.


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