Rejoice: AO Music and "Jabulani"

Today's random tune is by AO Music and is called Jabulani, a Zulu word meaning rejoice. AO Music is a pan-cultural world music group that employs the vocal talents of South African singer and composer Miriam Stockley in conjunction with children's choruses from around the world. The group sings in a mixture of ancient languages and made-up words so that no one ethnicity is emphasized in any song. Composition and performance is by Richard Gannaway, Jay Oliver and Miriam Stockley using digital sampling with a variety of acoustic instrumentation from different indigenous groups as well as contemporary elements. The group has released five albums. Jabulani can be found on their 2017 album Asha.

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.

Source: https://soundcloud.com/aomusic-1

For a look at how AO Music created the album Asha, and the musicians involved, see this video: