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BRAAI SOUND SYSTEM

NUMBER TWENTY-NINE

A collective, not a person

style

  • amapiano
  • gqom
  • heavy log drum
  • shakers
  • sparse dark synths
  • male vocal chants
  • hypnotic repetition
  • township energy
  • south african accent
  • hot

the numbers

bpm
112
key
G minor
energy
0.77
dance
0.92
valence
0.55
vocal at
16.4s
length
3:02
language
En

lyrics

(twenty-nine)

She came with somebody's brother on a Thursday in March
Sat down at a keyboard she had never touched before
Played four notes in the gap while the kettle was going
And went home at eleven and has never been back

Number twenty-nine (twenty-nine)
On the list, twenty-nine
One night only, twenty-nine
Twenty-nine

Twenty-nine, twenty-nine, twenty-nine, twenty-nine
Four notes on a borrowed keyboard is the whole intro
Twenty-nine, twenty-nine, twenty-nine, twenty-nine
Of the biggest thing we have ever put out

We have tried to find her. Two years. Nobody has her number.
Somebody's brother moved to Durban and stopped answering.
She is on a record in eleven countries and she may not know.
(KICK SLAMS BACK)

Twenty-nine, twenty-nine, twenty-nine, twenty-nine
Four notes on a borrowed keyboard is the whole intro
Twenty-nine, twenty-nine, twenty-nine, twenty-nine
Of the biggest thing we have ever put out

(twenty-nine...)