The Shebeen as College of Music
On 6 June 2010, PASS hosted The Shebeen as College of Music, a Chimurenga session for the launch of Chimurenga 15: The Curriculum is Everything, live from Duma’s Falling Leaves Jazz Rendezvous in Gugulethu.
Live performances by Bokani Dyer’s Trio, featuring Sisonke Xonti, and the ‘undaground jazz kollectiv’, The Loud Minority (Ntone, Mighty and Mogale).
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Nothembi Mkhwebane – LIVE from Centre for the Book, Cape Town
On 2 October 2009, Pan African Space Station presented Nothembi Mkhwebane, LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town. 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 …
Franck Biyong – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town
On 1 October 2009, Pan African Space Station presented Franck Biyong and Massak Afroclectic Orchestra, LIVE at Centre for the Book Cape Town. Cameroonian composer and producer Franck Biyong operates outside the boundaries which map the trajectories of African musicians in and out of the continent. After migrating to France in the late 80s, he consciously bypassed Paris and Brussels’ factories of Afro-pop slickness to establish himself as an electro producer in the London Underground. And although he formed Massak …
Udaba ft. Kgafela oa Mogogodi – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town
On 1 October 2009, Pan African Space Station hosted Udaba, in collaboration with spoken-word author and filmmaker Kgafela oa Magogodi, at The Centre for the Book, Cape Town. 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 African indigenous music on jam-like sets with a rotating crew of regular collaborators. Udaba draw their inspiration from Xhosa literature and …
Cultural Musical Club – LIVE at St Georges Cathedral
On 2 October 2009, Pan African Space Station hosted Culture Musical Club LIVE at St Georges Cathedral, Cape Town. Culture Musical Club (CMC) 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. The first and foremost aim of …
Felasophy
On 2 December 2005, Chimurenga hosted Felasophy for the launch of Chimurenga 08: We’re All Nigerian, at Shivava Cafe in Newtown, Johannesburg. This Chimurenga Session included performances by Mxo, Tumi, Kwani Experience, Marcus Wyatt, DJ Kenzhero and more. Listen to Part 1 and Part 2 of Felasophy here.