Raise Your Spirit Higher (2003)

Infobox Album |
Name = Raise Your Spirit Higher - Wenyukela
Type = Album
Artist = Ladysmith Black Mambazo


Released = March 52003
Recorded = October 1999 & January 2003
Genre = Isicathamiya
Length = 53:00 approx.
Label = Wrasse Records
Producer = Joseph Shabalala
Last album = "Wenyukela"
(2003)
This album = "Raise Your Spirit Higher - Wenyukela"
(2003)
Next album = "Raise Your Spirit Higher"
(2004)

"Raise Your Spirit Higher - Wenyukela" is an album by the South African isicathamiya group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. It was released on March 5, 2003 and was the British release of the group's South African album of the same name. It was later re-released in North America in 2004. The album was expected to have (and it did have) a solemn touch (it was the first album release after the murder of leader Joseph Shabalala's wife Nellie, in May 2002).

The album (WRASS100, Wrasse Records) was critically praised and was the first release of new material since "Heavenly", in 1997.

Track listing

# Tribute
#Because I Love You
#Wenyukela (Raise Your Spirit Higher)
#Wenza Ngani? (How Did You Do That?)
#Dlondlobala Njalo (Preserve Traditional Culture)
#Sandlwana (A Mountain)
#Mbayimbayi (By and By, I'm Coming)
#Black Is Beautiful
#Uqinisil' Ubaba (Lord is the Light and Truth)
#Udidekil' Umhlaba (Lord's Work)
#Iningi Liyabon Ububende (Many Spoil the Broth)
#Wangibambezela (Message from His Heart)
#Wamuhle Umshado (Beautiful Wedding)
#Phalamende (Parliament)
#Fak' Ibhande (Don't Drink and Drive)
#Music Knows No Boundaries
#Halala South Africa (Congratulations South Africa)