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Passcasts 2009
Culture Musical Club interview
Culture Musical Club began life as part of the youth organization of the Afro Shirazi Party during Zanzibar’s struggle for independence back in 1956. Today, CMC is Zanzibar’s most prolific and successful taarab orchestra. The club performs widely at concerts in Zanzibar’s Stone Town, but also frequently takes its music to the rural areas.
Their international tours and CD-releases have made the name Culture Musical Club known to audiences throughout the world so that rehearsals in their clubhouse have become somewhat of a tourist attraction. This, however, does not interfere with the first and foremost aim of their social gathering – to enjoy music and “to be moved” by it, as the original meaning of the word “taarab” implies.
Besides taarab, many club members are also active in kidumbak groups. Both types of music are now included in their shows, contrasting the serene sound of orchestral taarab to the festive and sexually charged dance that is kidumbak.
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Toumani Diabate interview
Kora maestro Toumani Diabate in conversation at PASS 2009. Diabate mediates traditions inherited from Mali’s ancient Mande Empire through globetrotting jazz, blues and electro frequencies. A lifelong Bamako resident, Diabate rose to global acclaim almost 20 years ago when he recorded the world’s first solo kora album Kaira. Since then his career has been characterised by a fierce refusal to erect a line between an ancient locality and a modern cosmopolis.
Bheki Khoza Interview
Real Rozzano
Digging in the Rozzano’s crates (6 Oct 2009) 1) god made me funky – headhunters 2) ashley’s roachclip – soul searchers 3) scorpio 4) funky drummer – james brown 5) hicky brrr – bill cosby 6) blues 4 me – mel brown 7) black cow – 8 ) love tko – teddy pendergrass 9) easin in – ojayz 10) what i feel – pacific express 11) madelaine – toni schilder 12) sakhile – sakhile 13) manasse – caiphus semenya …
Culture Musical Club live
Culture Musical Club live @ Slave Church WHERE/ WHEN: Slave Church (Sat Oct 3, from 7pm) Culture Musical Club began life as part of the youth organization of the Afro Shirazi Party during Zanzibar’s struggle for independence back in 1956. Today, CMC is Zanzibar’s most prolific and successful taarab orchestra. The club performs widely at concerts in Zanzibar’s Stone Town, but also frequently takes its music to the rural areas. Their international tours and CD-releases have made the name …
Udaba live
Udaba live @ Guga S’thebe With: SAKHILE MOLESHE (voice); DINEO PULE (voice); SIBUSISO MNYANDA (poetry); PUMELELE LAVISA (poetry, bow); LWANDA GOGWANA (trumpet); LUYOLO LENGA (guitar); VUYO KHATSHA (percussion, mbira); NOMA-INDIYA RASHU (dance); GRENVILLE WILLIAMS (bass); KGAFELA MAGOGODI (poetry) WHERE/ WHEN: Guga S’thebe (Sat Oct 3, from 12pm) Udaba is a musical flurry of passion, soul, soothsaying, truth-telling and jazz poetry that takes you on flights of improvisational abandon. Their politically engaged elegies fuse vernacular lyricism, Xhosa praise singing and …
Nothembi Mkhwebane live
Nothembi Mkhwebane live @ Guga S’thebe WHERE/ WHEN: Guga S’thebe (Sat Oct 2, from 12pm) African Queen of Ndebele music Nothembi Mkhwebane tunes her electric guitar to both urban and rural traditions, engaging the now through age old verbal idioms of experience, and a polyvocality of tone, tune, and texture; of hue and cry. Mkhwebane has her roots in rural Mpumalanga where she grew up steeped in Ndebele musical traditions. Since her move to Pretoria in 1977 she has …
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble live
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble live @ Guga S’thebe With: GABRIEL HUBERT/HUDAH (trumpet); SAIPH GRAVES/CID (trombone); TYCHO COHRAN/LT (sousaphone); AMAL HUBERT/BAJI (trumpet); JAFAR GRAVES/YOSH (trumpet); SEBA GRAVES/CLEF (trombone); TARIK GRAVES/SMOOV (trumpet); UTTAMA HUBERT/ROCCO (euphonium) WHERE/ WHEN: Guga S’thebe (Sat Oct 3, from 12pm) The nine members of HBE, eight brothers and a cousin, come from an extraordinary musical family. All sisters, brothers and mothers are professional musicians, and Philip Cohran, their father, has roots running back to Mississippi, his time in …
Toumani Diabate live
Toumani Diabate live @ St George’s Cathedral WHERE/ WHEN: St George’s Cathedral (Fri Oct 2, from 7pm) Kora maestro Toumani Diabate mediates traditions inherited from Mali’s ancient Mande Empire through globetrotting jazz, blues and electro frequencies. A lifelong Bamako resident, Diabat? rose to global acclaim almost 20 years ago when he recorded the world’s first solo kora album Kaira. Since then his career has been characterised by a fierce refusal to erect a line between an ancient locality and …
