Shabaka Hutchings and The Brother Moves On Bios
Shabaka Hutchings is a breathtaking saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. His early musical schooling moves from calypso bands, classical ensembles and various jazz groups in Barbados to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (UK). Since then he has been invited to play with musical greats including Mulatu Astatke, Charlie Haden, Orlando Julius, Louis Moholo-Moholo, and the Sun Ra Arkestra. Shabaka’s own group Sons of Kemet, which includes Seb Rochford and Tom Skinner on drums, and Oren Marshall on tuba, released their debut …
Shabaka Hutchings and The Brother Moves On: A Comet is Coming
Stories about Music in Africa: Throughout 2014 Chimurenga has been connecting with cutting-edge artists and music collectives from around the continent to prepare unique recordings for Pan African Space Station (PASS). On Thursday December 11, the first of these monthly broadcasts goes live featuring Shabaka Hutchings and The Brother Moves On. Tune in at panafricanspacestation.org.za. The series presents concert-lectures, audio/visual stories, recorded at the Chimurenga headquarters in Cape Town as well as satellite locations across the African world. Produced with the kind support of Goethe-Institut …
Category: News, Pass Blog, Video
Tags: Shabaka Hutchings, Stories About Music in Africa, The Brother Moves On
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Wanlov the Kubolor live at Slave Church, PASS 2009
From the PASS archives, Wanlov, one half of FOKN Bois, with band back in ’09. Makganwana Mokgalong recalls the experience(s). My first Wanlov the Kubolor experience was not quite an out of body experience, possibly not a once in a lifetime one either but a firmly unique experience it definitely was. From the back of the room all I could see was the back of people’s heads, and I numbed my irritation by convincing myself that I did not hear music with …
Your Own Hand Sold You
Ba Re E Ne Re Literature Festival, Maseru. September 5-7 2014
We’ll be in Maseru to celebrate new and old writing from Lesotho and the region at the annual Ba re e ne re Literature Festival – an important platform initiated by our dear departed comrade and sister Liepollo Rantekoa. Via PASS, we’ll livestream selected sessions from the festival, plus interviews with participating authors, live music and DJ mixes and more. Please join us. A press release for Ba re e ne re can be read here and for more information check facebook.com/barelitfest.
The New Thing
Boeta Gee‘s audio accompaniment to Lindokuhle Nkosi‘s story on the rebirth of the new thing in Cape Town’s jazz scene, published in the Chronic. Roll Call: Bokani Dyer Kyle Shepherd Sibusiso ‘PhD’ Dlamini Spha Mdlalose Linda Tshabalala Jonno Sweetman Lwanda Gogwana Mandla Mlangeni Darren English Sisonke Xonti Ethan Smith Siya Charles Claude Cozens Texito Langa Andre Swartz Benjamin Jephta Shane Cooper Reza Khota Keenan Chas Ahrends Sakhile Moleshe Bronwen Clacherty Nicholas Williams Thandi Ntuli Lana Crowster Wandile Molefe Vuyo Sotashe Marlon Clive …
Gospel Christian Porn Rap
Fucking with the puritanical social mores that pervade the world’s most religious country is the clear and conscious intent of Ghana’s popular and controversial hip-hop duo, the clever FOKN Bois, writes Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah. M3nsa and Wanlov the Kubolor are the FOKN Bois: controversial, unapologetic and boldly venturing into territories that other Ghanaian musicians stay well clear of. The duo met as college students in 1997, and Wanlov would “lie to M3nsa’s teachers that M3nsa was needed at the school administration block by staff, and we would run off to …
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Tags: FOKN Bois, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Pan-African Space Station, PASS
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Netsayi & Black Pressure live at Slave Church
The PASS arkives (re)awaken with a performance from Netsayi and her Black Pressure band. Doreen Gaura takes us back: Just a little over 10 minutes into the show, she removed her high heeled shoes and jokingly feigned regret for the action as she apologised to the audience, suggesting that she’d only worn them for our sake. It was at that moment that I realised that I was in the presence of spirit and realness and I was in for a …
Category: Pass Blog, Passcasts 2012
Tags: Black Pressure, Doreen Gaura, netsayi, Siya Makuzeni
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Soul Housing Project at PASS 2010
In PASS’s third year of transmission, Soul Housing Project joined us. Listen back to a track on the video below. Before we broadcast their 2014 live styles just now, we asked SHP’s frontman, Sakhile Moleshe, to recall then: “It was almost the beginning of winter and we were just starting to feel that anxiety that winter brings for musicians in this city. Cold, wet and windy emotions bouncing back and forth like torrents of liquefied furnace fires fueled the blaze …