Tag Archives: PASS live event
Philip Tabane & Malombo Live
Listen to enigmatic, innovative seer and composer-band leader Doctor Philip Tabane’s Saturday afternoon set, recorded live at Guga S’Thebe Centre in Langa.
G & D Live
Brice Wassy Live
Listen to legendary Camerounian drummer/percussionist Brice Wassy’s Trio performance, recorded live at the Albert Hall on October 1. Known as the ‘King of 6/8 Rhythm,’ Camerounian drummer/percussionist Brice Wassy has been a centrifugal force in African music for the past four decades. The former bandleader for Manu Dibango and Salif Keita, he has worked with Miriam Makeba, Mabi Thobejane, Madala Kunene, Toure Kunda, Moses Molelekwa, and Busi Mhlongo, as well as the likes of French jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, Cuban …
G&D Live
Listen to Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley ‘Declaime’ Perkins, recorded live at the Albert Hall, Woodstock on September 30. American funk-fusion chanteuse Georgia Anne Muldrow is, to have Mos Def tell it, ‘like Flack, Nina Simone, Ella, she’s something else. She’s like religion.’ Muldrow is a seeker, a journeywoman unafraid to chart new musical territories. Travelling side by side with soulmate, influential, purposeful and prolific executive producer/emcee/visual artist Dudley Perkins (Declaime), they forge the missing links between beat konductas like …
Dr Philip Tabane and Malombo Live
Listen to enigmatic, innovative seer and composer-band leader Doctor Philip Tabane’s set, recorded live at St. George’s Cathedral on September 30. The Dr is a giant in South African music. Since the early 60s he has forged a musical path that defies boundaries, channelling the voices of his ancestors, the Malombo spirits of Venda, through rich polyrhythmic African beats and alchemic free jazz improvisation. While Tabane has toured internationally, playing with jazz greats like Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and …
Johnny Cradle live @ PASS
Mbuso T Live
Listen to Mbuso T’s evolutionary Maf & So set recorded live at Albert Hall, Woodstock on September 29. Mbuso T has blazed a beat trail that’s led him from splice and dicing mix tapes in Soweto, to pioneering all-night street bashes, sending dancefloors crazy, redefining the rhythm of the airwaves and establishing dance labels such as SoulCandi and Phezulu Records. His latest Maf & So evolution builds on his eclectic decade long legacy, mixing street-infected Soweto funk with spirited …
Studio Kabako Live
Listen to Kisangani (DRC) based dance collective Kabako Studio’s More more more… Future, recorded live at the City Hall on September 28. Infusing the hybrid rhythms of Ndombolo music with hefty doses of punk rage and cosmic energy, Studio Kabako deliver a pre-Sputnik space travelogue into the unknown. Flying in the face of fatalist perception of Africa, they merge explosive dance and experimental theatre, mysticism and militancy, riddle and confrontation, within a wholly new context, where weird worlds of sound …
More more more… Future last night at PASS
Delicate and brutal, feverish and fearless, beautiful and ugly, Kabako Studio’s More more more… Future literally exploded last night at launch of PASS live music festival. It’s the story of the Congo and its brutal history, but it’s also a story of here and now, one that transcends a nation and thereby redefines our sense of belonging to history and the world. Much of the story is told in between repetitive images of bodies, grotesque and unexpected, that pervade the …