“Courage is very important!” This nugget of wisdom was buried at the end of Sam Turpin’s answer to a question about the incredible short film/music video that he and Katya Abedian created together for his song, “Sahara Flow”. It’s not easy to be courageous (as a certain cowardly dog knows all too well), however, the…
“Spinning Bottle“, the latest single from Ex Olympic and Roxy Caroline was released this past Wednesday on the 13th of May and the song sees the pair in their first musical creative collaboration. Multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Nicolaas Van Reenen’s artistic evolution can be sonically mapped from his time making music as a part of…
SURF : AM, is independent musician, performer, artists and graphic designer Xolani Mchunu’s aka Xenlaii’s debut sonic “story of extreme highs and lows, like the tide dancing to the gravitational pull of the moon.” Growing up in the small town of Pietermaritzburg, a mere 30 min drive from the warm coast of KwaZulu Natal, had…
Bamako, is Simphiwe Dana’s fifth album, having released Zandisile (2004), The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street (2006), Kulture Noir (2010) and Firebrand (2015) – prior to Bamako (2020). This recent release is an album of labour and tears after Simphiwe spent 20 hours per day for two years to gift it to us….
Red Bull and Dear Ribane — the family collective made up of siblings Manthe, Tebogo and Kokona Ribane — teamed up in collaboration to dive into their approach and guiding philosophies when putting together a live show, thus offering viewers insight into the strategies of creation that guide them when curating a performance. There is…
Exploring various mediums in both sonic and visual spheres, with overlap in the form of video, VR and performance has been the creative and thematic nexus of visual artist and music producer Fred Clarke, however, working under the pseudonym Mathroom. Clarke’s artistic outputs and interrogations under the alias of Mathroom are made manifest both through…
Cape Town based singer-songwriter, Red Robyn – who also makes up part of The World of Bird’s ensemble – released her single titled “Got me”, this past Friday. The catchy and deceptively lighthearted track will form part of what will be a trilogy EP, called Girls wear Pink. The EP title is — I am…
Its first sonic utterances settle into one’s auditory receptors slowly… Taking their time, they work their way into greeting and welcoming you into the world built by the sonic landscapes and textures that are too follow like a meticulously crafted establishing shot for a piece of beautiful Japanese film. Cinematic in it’s very essence the…
The children of “Mkokotelo” nation are back with a new two track single release set to bless our ears next week Monday with “Pikachu Freestyle” and “Bus Boy”. The beginnings and crystallisation of Stiff Pap’s performative and eternally playful — almost laastig — yet, still politically radical identity was formed before the utterance of their first…
Born into a family blues band, one could say that music forms a part of Roxy Caroline‘s DNA; brick and mortar of her very essence. Most of what she learnt with regards to it, the artist absorbed while in the womb and continues to sharpen and expand on her craft in various articulations. Roxy also…
Cape Town originating and based four piece band, The World of Birds, have released a music video for their pocket full of sunshine single titled “Open Up”. The band which was originally known as Nic Preen & the World of Birds, is fronted by Preen who also forms part of Al Bairre’s ensemble. The song…
While the exact moment when the two connected is difficult to pinpoint — with it having have occurred either at a recording session with a well known South African rapper or at a Mashayabuque show — this, depending on who you ask that is. What is clear is that producer/rapper Suup Zulu and rapper Kobayashi…
