This sparkling collaboration was decreed years ago in backstage conversations between James as lead singer of African pop rock sensation The Usual and world-beat specialist Barry van Zyl.

"We should do something. It would be a vibe."

And it is.

The catalyst was a burst of creative sessions in Cape Town, galvanizing some 35 years of collective experience and success. Water continues to live the ethos of traveling minstrels, working in New York, London, Jo'burg, Paris or Sydney - wherever the current flows.

Creativity is the only absolute...