These poems were all written during the National Poetry Month 30/30 Challenge
of 2011. All music and poetry written and performed by Ngoma with the exception of "The Crow On the Cradle"-Sydney Carter/Jackson Brown(Covered by Ngoma)
"Ngoma's Not Your Average String Thing -Vocals,Bamboo Flute,Electrik Violin,Acoustic Guitar,Yidaki (Didgeridoo) & Garage Band Tracks

Sound recording & Mastering-Kasim Allah/Sandy's House
Executive Producer - Ngoma Hill
Design - Beth Peterson
Photography - Osunyoyin Alake,Puma Purl

©copyright 2011

11 MP3 Songs in this album (34:06) !
Related styles: Spoken Word: Poetry, Spoken Word: With Music, Solo Male Artist

People who are interested in Gil Scott Heron Sekou Sundiata The Last Poets should consider this download.


Details:

Ngoma is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and paradigm shifter, who for over 40 years has used culture as a tool to raise sociopolitical and spiritual consciousness through work that encourages critical thought.
A former member of the SPIRIT HOUSE MOVERS AND PLAYERS with Amiri Baraka and the Contemporary Freedom Song Duo, SERIOUS BIZNESS, Ngoma weaves poetry and song that raises contradictions and searches for a solution for a just and peaceful world. Ngoma was the Prop Slam winner of the 1997 National Poetry Slam Competition in Middletown, CT and was published in AFRICAN VOICES MAGAZINE, LONG SHOT ANTHOLOGY, THE UNDERWOOD REVIEW, SIGNIFYIN' HARLEM REVIEW, BUM RUSH THE PAGE/DEF POETRY JAM ANTHOLOGY,POEMS ON THE ROAD TO PEACE (Volumes 1,2 & 3)-Yale Press and Let Loose On the World(Celebrating Amiri Baraka at 75).
He was featured in the PBS Spoken Word Documentary, "The Apro-Poets" with Allen Ginsberg.
Ngoma was an invited guest at the week-long Badilisha Poetry X-Change in Capetown, South Africa, November 22 - 29 2009. The Badilisha! Poetry X-Change is an ongoing project that celebrates the word through the concept of âbadilishaâ, a Kiswahili expression denoting change, exchange and transformation. Badilisha! Poetry X-Change is curated by acclaimed poet Malika Ndlovu and arts manager Lorelle Viegi.
Ngoma has hosted the slam at the Dr. Martin Luther King Festival of Social and Environmental Justice Festival (Yale University-New Haven, CT) annually since 1998

These poems were all written during the National Poetry Month 30/30 Challenge
of 2011. All music and poetry written and performed by Ngoma with the exception of "The Crow On the Cradle"-Sydney Carter/Jackson Brown(Covered by Ngoma)
"Ngoma's Not Your Average String Thing -Vocals,Bamboo Flute,Electrik Violin,Acoustic Guitar,Yidaki (Didgeridoo) & Garage Band Tracks

Sound recording & Mastering-Kasim Allah/Sandy's House
Executive Producer - Ngoma Hill
Design - Beth Peterson
Photography - Osunyoyin Alake,Puma Purl

©copyright 2011
Booking & Contact Info - Ngomazworld@aol.com 1(212)663-2591
Facebook.com/Ngoma Hill