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nkomba

to live...is to leave traces.....(Walter Benjamin)

About Me


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/24/2006
Band Website: nkomba.net
Band Members: Ron Nkomba: Rhythm guitar, vocals, sometimes harmonica; Sam Taylor: Pick guitar; Collaborators: Tina Chimombo (chichewa lyrics), Charlie Payne (violin)Photographs: Tanya Taylor; JoJo Weber, Richard Marks
Influences: africa, the ocean, true love, winter depression, the smell of scorched earth after the rain, malawi the warm heart, heartbreak, springtime euphoria, rainy sunday afternoons, government corruption, tree lined avenues, balmy summer evenings, blues and greens, scented candles, social injustice, mothers and sisters, autumn leaves..................
Sounds Like: africa, the ocean, true love, winter depression, the smell of scorched earth after the rain...etc
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Lucky Dube is dead

I am absolutely stunned, grieved and disgusted to hear of the death of Lucky Dube. Growing up in Malawi in the 1980's, we listened to Lucky on the radio or our battered tape recorders, and he was the ...
Posted by nkomba on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:08:00 PST

Re-cover(y)

wow...it's still there, the magic - the zen of a live performance. even with no apmlification; even after 8 months of hand ache and pain; even with the drone of King's Cross Traffic in the backg...
Posted by nkomba on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:37:00 PST