Tag: Cape Town
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South Africa’s Asher Gamedze leads new ten-piece for single on International Anthem – ‘Find Each Other’ trails album together with The Black Lungs
Cape Town based Asher Gamedze has shared new lead single Find Each Other – a polyrhythmic jazz reflection recorded with new 10-piece ensemble The Black Lungs – and is the first track from forthcoming album Constitution out 30th August on International Anthem. The drummer and composer is a cultural worker in South Africa and devotes…
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Pacific Express ‘Black Fire’ LP is one of the standout jazz releases of this year
Matsuli Music has added the debut album of this Cape Town ‘supergroup’ to their growing catalogue of South African Afro-jazz reissues. New liner notes from acclaimed jazz historian Gwen Ansel explains how this album successfully fused multiple styles in 1976 forging a new sound from what was ‘Cape Town Jazz’, Latin, R&B, soul, pop and…
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INTERVIEW: DJ Okapi, a world renouned taste-maker and head of the Afrosynth label of Johannesburg
DJ Okapi has been at the fore of rediscovering dance music from South Africa since his Afrosynth blog started seven years ago. He has just compiled Boogie Breakdown: South African Synth-Disco 1980-1984 for Cultures of Soul and is about to commence a DJ tour of Europe. As well as blogging about under-publicised artists from his…
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