Track of the day is the formidable spiritual sound of pianist composer Nduduzo Makhathini on 'Senze’Nina' from new Blue Note Africa release In the Spirit of Ntu. Makhathini says: “‘Senze’Nina’ is a meditation on renewal… and could be read as a plea. The theme was born inside of the recent incidents of gender-based violence and witnessing our sisters, daughters, and mothers asking themselves the question: ‘senzenina?’ As I meditated on this question, I realized a different meaning. I read the word as a kind of hyphenated word with the first part ‘senze’ (make/recreate us) and the second part ‘nina’ (referring to mothers, the makers and carriers). In this sense, I’m putting forward an argument that it is us (men) that need to be recreated, there is a part of us that has died for us to cause so much harm. Thus, we need to go back to our essence (Ntu), the womb of a mother and be recreated.”