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Speaker 1: Join the conversation with the conversation you're with Kate talk

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Speaker 1: our music segment taking us into a genre I have

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Speaker 1: never explored before, called plas rock, literally farm rock in

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Speaker 1: this case, because the band we're speaking to are called

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Speaker 1: Zondach Kraal and they consist of a trio of farmers

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Speaker 1: Hannas Elf Rulfritz and Christian Van Billion who all met

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Speaker 1: in Komati put in a puma langa and their music

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Speaker 1: is very deeply rooted in that rural context they come from,

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Speaker 1: but also with a refreshingly modern twist. And we are

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Speaker 1: going to play you their latest track, which is their

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Speaker 1: take on an absolutely classic Bruce Springsteen number. Now, before

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Speaker 1: we do that, we always like to chat to the

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Speaker 1: band and hear a little bit of the story behind

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Speaker 1: their music, and we had a challenge in terms of

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Speaker 1: signal quality to the farm this morning, So what we've

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Speaker 1: done is had to pre record a couple of questions

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Speaker 1: on voice note with them to make sure that we

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Speaker 1: were able to get a full answer that you could appreciate.

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Speaker 1: So apologies that it's not happening live, but we didn't

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Speaker 1: want to risk the signal falling apart entirely. I started

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Speaker 1: out by asking Hannas to tell us what both these

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Speaker 1: three farmers from Komati put together to make music.

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Speaker 2: We started the band, yeah, yeah, Me and Rufie started

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Speaker 2: it actually in twenty twenty two. Before that, I was

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Speaker 2: in a band in Kumarti Purti and the Lofelt. It

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Speaker 2: was a small band. We just did it for fun basically,

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Speaker 2: although we did write our own music as well, but

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Speaker 2: mostly covers and doing bike allies and festivals and things

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Speaker 2: like that was hell of a lot of fun. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: my wife got pregnant and Jachman it was just so

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Speaker 2: difficult with the new baby there, you know, it wasn't

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Speaker 2: I wasn't able to get so much to practices and things.

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Speaker 2: You know, you want to spend time with your newborn

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Speaker 2: and your wife. And I stopped with the music. I

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Speaker 2: was anywhere at that stage. I was about what forty

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Speaker 2: two run about them, so I was already late in

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Speaker 2: the day. So yeah, I just decided, man, and there's

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Speaker 2: other important things to do now, and so I stopped.

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Speaker 2: And then a few years after that, Rufie we were

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Speaker 2: sitting next to a bry like usually thinks happened in

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Speaker 2: the low felt so we were speaking about the music

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Speaker 2: and all of that, and he asked me, you know,

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Speaker 2: why don't you do your own thing in Afrikaans? And

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Speaker 2: I said to him the thing for me was, I

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Speaker 2: don't I like writing the music. Now, for for me

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Speaker 2: and Rulf, he writes the lyrics and I like to

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Speaker 2: write the music, the melodies and so on. But I

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Speaker 2: was never good in writing Afrikaans words, and I think

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Speaker 2: that isn't for this. I was able to write English songs,

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Speaker 2: but which is strange. I mean, I'm Afrikaans, I'm not English,

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Speaker 2: and my English is not that good. So but I

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Speaker 2: think because my life I listened to English music, it

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Speaker 2: was easier for me to write in English when it

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Speaker 2: came to music, but Afrikaans was a bit something new

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Speaker 2: for me to write music in. And Rule said, now

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Speaker 2: you'll write the words and then as long as I

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Speaker 2: can write the melodies. And I said to him, well, okay,

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Speaker 2: let's try. I mean, after a few lemonades, everything sounds possible.

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Speaker 2: So we gave it a go and he sent me

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Speaker 2: some lyrics that weekend and I think it was our two.

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Speaker 2: I said him melody back with the words, and he

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Speaker 2: liked it. I liked it, and we said, okay, let's

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Speaker 2: give it a go, and I think, yeah, that's basically

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Speaker 2: where we started. And from there, I think we're standing

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Speaker 2: up about almost twenty songs I think plus minus anyway

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Speaker 2: that's out there, and we bless you with a few

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Speaker 2: now and yeah, it's just been growing from there. So

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Speaker 2: we were very blessed concerning that.

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Speaker 1: And among the songs they've worked on, I should mention

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Speaker 1: they've got a track on the Rodriguez tribute album we

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Speaker 1: were talking about earlier in the week, SA four Rodriguez.

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Speaker 1: But that's not what we're going to play for you today.

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Speaker 1: We want to play you their take on an absolute

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Speaker 1: Bruce Springsteen classic, I'm on Fire. And here's the story

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Speaker 1: behind why they chose to do a version of that song.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you can't really compete with Blue Springsteen, so we

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Speaker 2: didn't even try. We loved the song and we just

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Speaker 2: took the core feeling of that song and asked, you know,

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Speaker 2: what would the sound be like if you had to

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Speaker 2: do it in twenty twenty six. So we slowed it down,

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Speaker 2: made more emotional, more vibes, just something you can feel,

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Speaker 2: not just yeah. We wanted people to hear it like

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Speaker 2: they heard it for the first time, and we like

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Speaker 2: that dark country vibe combined with some rock and yeah.

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Speaker 2: Wanted to create a genre that's maybe not used a

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Speaker 2: lot in South Africa and that's basically what we did

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Speaker 2: with I'm on Fire.

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Speaker 1: That was Hannas Eloff of the band Zonda Krau