“Be Free” is artist and sangoma, Desire Marea’s latest offering ahead of his sophomore album release—On the Romance of Being—recorded live with thirteen musicians, including Andrei Van Wyk, Sanele Ngubane, Portia Sibiya and more, due to come out on April 7th. Reviewing the single and its video for Brooklyn Vegan, Amy Geiger writes that “Be…
What is true? Boiler Room x Ballantine’s True Music Studios answered that question with a well-curated program of true music. Soweto was buzzing with the sound of South Africa’s truest music; starting the weekend just right, on a Thursday, in the heart of Orlando with a stellar starting lineup. With a series of events that unite…
2022 was a great year for music. There was a consistent flow of good music across multiple genres and 2023 promises the same. The New Year offers a clean slate which gives artists more freedom, more inspiration, and to experience more growth. It also gives an opportunity for artists that have been in hibernation for…
“I think of music — South African music in this case — as having a heartbeat. A heartbeat that tells us something of the places we have been, of our desires and our strifes, that tells us something of those we have met along the way and of the Edens we hope to one day…
It’s one thing to release a critically acclaimed and commercially successful debut album but to do it twice is a rare feat that not few alternative Kenyan musicians can boast about. Kenyan musician, DJ and producer Blinky Bill’s debut album “Everyone’s Just Winging It and Other Fly Tales” which featured classics such as “Atenshan” and…
“It’s a song about the chemistry you have with a hot stranger at the club. The harmonies are everything.” — Maya Amolo The first single from Full Full Condition Vol. 3, the next compilation album from TANGAZA Magazine, is ‘Bend It’. The song features emerging Ugandan pop star Joshua Baraka and Kenyan Alt-R&B singer Maya…
Oluwatosin Ajibade or Mr Eazi has been one of the most prominent artists to come out from Ghana. His Banku style which fuses Ghanaian highlife music with Nigerian chord progressions has propelled him to the top of Africa’s streaming charts. From chart-topping singles to collaborations with some of the biggest artists in the world, Mr…
Afro-futurism is characterized by Ingrid LaFleur, as the, “imagining of possible futures through a black cultural lens.” It often features booming bass drums, rattling percussions and the presence of an electronic bass or keyboards. It often seeps into different genres from R&B to jazz to reggae, and alternative pop as seen through the works of…
Songwriter and singer Preyé has been a musician bubbling under in Nigeria’s R&B space. She has released a few singles over the past year and is ready to make her statement to the world with her debut project, “Don’t Look Down!” The seven-track EP follows the success of her lead single, “Crayons” which landed her…
“Not everybody outside is happy, our people are authentic to themselves. Even in turmoil, there is beauty” Chukwuka Nwobi 24 year old visual artist Chukwuka Nwobi, said that their motivation to tell a story that is true to life, was inspired by real events that were transpiring around them. They said that the story is…
DARKOWA’s richly textured sound traverses the often weird and sometimes wonderful world of love and connection. Drawing from her own experiences DARKOWA explores grief, loss and the difficulty and power of letting go. Her latest offering, ‘Searching the World‘— released on September 9th — brings us into her enthralling world dramatised by balmy vocals that…
Toronto has become the epicentre of a new class of R&B, spawning the likes of The Weeknd, PartyNextDoor, dvsn, and Majid Jordan. GiftedbyGifted has added his name to that list with his experimental mix of R&B and Afro-Caribbean fusion. Gifted or Nathan Kyle Frederick has been obsessed with music since he was five-years-old when he…
