23/06/2026
Something powerful and quite beautiful has been unfolding, and it is finally time to share it with you dear friends and family...
This Father’s Day (Sunday, 21 June), I release a new single titled "Father's Hands". This song is deeply meaningful to me and the healing of our family lineage. Written with my late uncle, Keith Erasmus, it was inspired through our shared natures and ways of relating to the beauty and pain experienced in this world, our familial histories and generational trauma.
I finally release the song as a tribute for my dad, Kevin Hinds Music, who is currently navigating the advanced stages of dementia. The song has now become medicine music, woven to heal ancestral lineages and honor the heavy, beautiful histories we carry in our blood.
The birth of this track was also brought about in the midst of a literal survival story. With the massive rains this past week in the Eastern Cape, my young daughter and I found ourselves marooned and flooded in for four days by a raging, overflowing Kleinemonde River. Even now, with the water slowly shifting, the physical reality remains a gruelling walk—carrying gear by foot through the mud up the river valley up to the studio. Yet, the isolation brought absolute clarity. This music could not be stopped by the water; the intensity of the storm only deepened the resonance of the medicine we are bringing forward.
To hold my dad through this difficult season, my brother Wren and I are anchoring this release with a BackaBuddy fundraising campaign and a national awareness partnership with the Association for Dementia and Alzheimer’s of South Africa (ADASA) to help cover his specialized frail care. [LINK TO SUPPORT IS IN THE FIRST COMMENT BELOW]
After tracking the core elements of the song myself, a beautiful, historic community of elders gathered to lend their hands to "Father's Hands". I recorded Eternal Melodies, a legendary duo from Mdantsane (Blind elder Ntaba Dlomo and Attwell Masupha), singing their beautiful harmonies, pouring decades of soulful resilience and oral storytelling into the song. Musical legends and friends like Dan Roberts and the Runaway Train Cult, Dan Chiorboli, and Ben Badenhorst are getting involved in the project as well.
To protect the restorative spirit of the piece, the entire track was recorded at 432Hz, the tuning in alignment with the golden ratio.
Love and gratitude go out to my late uncle Keith for planting the seed of this song, and to the beautiful circle of musicians helping to ground this medicine.
