Vitalis “Samaita” Botsa, the charismatic Zimbabwean master, creates gorgeous waves of sound connecting the living with the ancestors. “I’m just the car, it’s the spirits doing the driving, making the music,” he says. Touring with Erica Azim, Botsa presents mbira, an ancient form of sacred music played by the Shona people for over 1,000 years. Mbira also refers to the musical instrument with metal keys plucked by two thumbs and one forefinger, creating calming yet invigorating polyphony, polyrhythm, and extensive improvisation, which have been used in Zimbabwe to heal the sick, and in night-long to week-long ceremonies to summon family ancestors and powerful tribal guardian spirits to earth who help the living.