Hearing the introductory lyrics to LUA‘s “Kiss Me” — “Never felt this emotion before / At this point I might lose it all / Your love feels like it’s always galore” — accompanied by a voice that sounds akin to velvet, it would be natural to assume that LUA is a veteran in the R&B game….
New Zealand singer/songwriter, Teeks, captured the imaginations and hearts of the world with his heartstring-pulling single, “First Time”. The song particularly resonated with South Africans as it topped the iTunes and Spotify charts in the country, had a fair share of radio play as well as making its mark on Tik Tok. It is the…
Tim Lyre is a musician with many talents. His music is a genre-bending afro-futurist study of the human experience which has been credited as influenced equally by juju master Ebenezer Obey and R&B genius John Legend. From being a dynamic vocalist to being a multi-instrumentalist and producer Lyre’s talent exudes in every beat, chorus and…
If I were blissfully unaware of its relationships of co-opted association to whiteness and “maleness”, genius is one of the words I would use to describe Georgia Anne Muldrow and her sonic oeuvre spanning nearly two decades. Imagining, creating and composing sonic topographies that traverse genre and containment, from soul to R&B, hip hop to…
Uniting hazy sonic tales with sweet melodies and powerful lyrics, Joya Mooi has carved out an idiosyncratic hybrid of soulful R&B and dream pop, embodying stories from her past and present. Born in exile to a South African father and a Dutch mother — the singer’s parents met in Angola while her father was in…
Titled Africans from Outta Space and produced by Barry Berk at The Bass Station in Johannesburg; the debut 6 track EP by Soweto three piece Afronaut is a full frontal dynamic sonic experience. Made up of Fumane “Fumez on the Mic” Mahane (vocals), Thulasizwe “Thulas” Nkosi (guitar) and Zakhele “Zakes” Mangwanyane (violin), Afronaut is one…
Nigerian-French singer-songwriter Aṣa has made her long-awaited return from hiatus with us last hearing her soulful and soothing voice on ‘Bed of Stone’ her third studio album release all the way back in 2014. This, however, doesn’t mean the multi-platinum selling star wasn’t busy as lived experience in of itself is an invaluable part of…
The writer Grafton Tanner argues that as the culture industry voraciously strip-mines ideas from the past, musicians respond by creating even weirder versions of earlier styles. Artists wildly mix genres and musical eras, expressing the social dislocation of living in a society where the line between the real and the online seems to grow hazier…
