Home Sweet Home: Day 23 – The One Where Tehn Made “Stone Soup”

Yes okay, I’ve been ridiculously slack with the blogging action. But you gotta understand between power cuts at odd ass hours and tryna be in the studio every other day, I haven’t really found time to sit down and share my thoughts. Nevertheless, I apologise. Things’ll be back on track soon enough.

Moving swiftly along though…

Oh shit fuck ! Its finally going down, I’m ACTUALLY doing my first shows in my beautiful hometown of Harare over the weekend. Naturally I’m excited as flies at a shitfest. I’ve always said to people who ask me why on earth I keep coming back home to try and do music when nobody can really afford to buy music, that for me its a no brainer…I LOVE HARARE !!! Also whats the point of having hundreds of people know you in other spots around the world know you for your talent, and the folk at home only know you for your absence.

So over the past 23 days I’ve been sowing the seeds that’ll give birth to a solid local following and ultimately a solid regional fambase as well. I’ve been meeting and greeting with all sorts of people in the industry, and do believe me the scene is alive and well. The wealth of talent is ridiculous.

My number one goal has been to try and solidify the business side of my music business, so that the next few months go off like they’re supposed to. And no man is an island, so its been a mission of making connections and building on them. I’m pleased to say I finally have a manager, so more doors should open shortly.

In short I’m making Stone-Soup (just a little story I read over at Musician Coaching), enjoy

Once upon a time there was a great famine in which people hoarded whatever food they could find, hiding it even from their friends and neighbors. One day a wandering soldier came into a village and began asking questions as if he planned to stay for the night. There is no food anywhere in the village,” he was told. ” You had better keep moving on.”

“I have everything I need,” the soldier said. “In fact, I was thinking of making some stone soup to share with all of you.” He pulled an iron cauldron from his belongings, filled it with water, and built a fire under it. Then, with great ceremony, he drew an ordinary-looking stone from a velvet bag and dropped it into the water.

By now, hearing the rumor of food, most of the villagers had come to the square or watched from their windows. As the soldier sniffed the “broth” and licked his lips in anticipation, hunger began to overcome their skepticism.

“Mmmmm,” the soldier said to himself rather loudly, “I do like a tasty stone soup. Of course, stone soup with carrots — that’s hard to beat.”

Soon a villager approached hesitantly, holding some carrots he’d retrieved from a hiding place, and added them to the pot. “Great!” said the soldier. “You know, I once had stone soup with carrots and a bit of beef as well, and it was close to perfection.”

The village butcher managed to find some beef and so it went, through potatoes, onions, cabbage, mushrooms, and so on, until there was a delicious meal for everyone.

Peace,Love & a little stone soup…

Tehn Diamond

P.S. I’ll post up photos and stuff from this afternoon’s short and any video I can get it in tomorrow’s post.

Lest I forget, on Sunday I’m sending out my latest track “Grown Up Kid” as a special thank you to those of you who signed up for my mailing list. The rest of you only get to hear it when SOTG.2 comes out, and who wants to wait that long ? So fuck it, sign-up and join the inner circle and lets make history ! (that last bit was me getting overexcited)