Cherry Bomb
Cherry Bomb digs some rather rare African rock ‘n’ roll and psychedelia from her virtual crates Mon, 20 Sep 2010
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A message from Radio Continental Drift
greetings, hope the little message below might be well placed in to the audio dramatist’s hands & ears… please PASS it round: Greetings comrade listeners in CT, i’m delighted seeing & hearing your activities & productions over there. Beautiful work! I’d like to send you some links to playlists of clips from East Africa. They are featuring the voices, concerns, activities & productions of audio, radio & oral producers of many kinds in Nairobi, Kampala & Gulu; excerpts from a …
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Pass One Pass All
Nonkululeko Godana beams her Writer’s Stokvel poetic swaps, presenting poetry, commentary and live Music. Simphiwe Dana is studio guest and DJ Mogale is on the decks.
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Songs for Biko
Join us for Songs for Biko, and other stomps, screams and prayers: a 24-hr marathon praise party to launch PASS 2010. PASS Studios (Africa Centre, 44 Long Street, Cape Town) Sat 11 Sept to Sun 12 Sept, (Biko Day) Welcome drinks on Saturday 11 Sept from 10pm, and at midnight PASS radio launches with DJs, musicians, soundists, poets, generally noise people presenting music and sound inspired by Steve Biko’s work; or reading from his words in I Write What I …
Some othaship
No Space Station is complete without the advanced technology to transport audiences to the furthest realms. With that in mind PASS is launching its own sonic rocket outta here – some othaship, to quote Declaime. Situated on St George Mall in Cape Town, it’s an audio-visual public art installation by artist Douglas Gimberg and architect Greer Valley which we hope will travel farther/further than Mobutu Sese Seko’s notorious ‘Nzwamba fusée’.
PASS 2010 Live Events
From September 28 – October 2, 2010, PASS III plays host to genre-busting music outfits from global Africa dedicated to exploring new musical territory. This year’s line up features musical giants such as South Africa’s enigmatic, innovative seer and composer-band leader Doctor Philip Tabane & Malombo, who channel the spirits of Venda through rich polyrhythmic African beats and alchemic free jazz improvisation. They play alongside the young jazz guns of the Kyle Sheperd Trio who fearlessly blaze a new musical …