This week live on PASS radio
This week, live on PASS radio [ broadcasting from Tagore’s Jazz Bar, 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town ]:
Thursday: Nga Funk
Friday: Hilton Schilder Trio
Saturday: TheBrother Moves On (Jhb)
Outdoor Sunday: Thath’i Cover Okestra with Bokani Dyer live from Guga Sthebe
All performances from 9.30pm (excerpt Sunday – info here)
Livestream by hitting the ‘Listen to the live stream’ link on the left.
PASS Presents Thath’i Cover Okestra
The Pan African Space Station presents Thath’i Cover Okestra – a collaborative re-exploration of kwaito arranged, directed and conducted by Bokani Dyer 4 November 2012 at 2pm Guga S’thebe Arts & Culture Centre, Washington St., Langa R50 presold from Chimurenga- Pan African Market, 76 Long Street and Tagores- 42 Trill Road, Observatory. Or call: 021 422 4168 “Waar was Jy?” asked kwaito crew Skeem in their 1996 pumping house, ragga and rap hit with the same title. “Where were you?” …
PASS presents Netsayi & Black Pressure with Siya Makuzeni
Friday, October 5, 2012 at 8pm Slave Church, 40 Long Street, Cape Town Entry R50 presold, R80 at the door For further info: 021 422 4168 This summer the Pan African Space Station continues its cross-cultural and cyber-spatial exploration with a series of genre-busting live music sessions in Cape Town. The first installment features Zimbabwean singer and songwriter Netsayi and her band Black Pressure exploring new musical territory in collaboration with South African jazz trombonist and songstress Siya Makuzeni. Working …
Spha Mdlalose
Jazz vocalist Spha Mdlalose moves from rough-hewn shebeen-styled jazz through souful gospel grooves to Sarah Vaughan-like sophistication and Ella-edged beboppers. Since graduating Mdlalose has performed alongside Jimmy Dludlu, Zamajobe and Sbongile Khumalo. PASS people will know her from Bheki Khoza’s War Chorale, her sets with Lwanda Gogwana and the Plantation Miners at Tagore’s and her recent performance in Neo Muyanga’s Flower of Shembe. Watch one of her performances here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXqt9xE1ENA
Reza Khota
This week live on PASS radio
This week, live on PASS radio [ broadcasting from Tagore’s Jazz Bar, 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town ]: Reza Khota completes his short residency on Wednesday 12 Sept. Graeme Arendse aka DJ Boeta G takes the pulpit on Thursday 13 Sept On Friday 14 Sept, a once-off: Chief Dr. Prof. Neo Muyanga drops his shembe baton and pulls out the toys – and this man takes his games seriously. Don’t miss this. The amazingly talented Spha Mdlalose is back …
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Stalking Thandiswa
by Clarissa Cummings I’m a sucker for intense relationships with people who have no fucking idea I even exist. Since the advent of online social holes like Twitter and Facebook, my phantom connections and passive-emotional steez have skyrocketed. And I’m not complaining. I’ve been enthralled in some of the most fulfilling 15 minutes of non-committal, pseudo relationships. All types of relationships. I’ve become a serial cyber best friend, lover, intellectual companion and enemy; all with strangers I meet scrolling through …
JitsVinger: practicing, not preaching
By Lindokuhle Nkosi Jitsvinger is concerned with matters of identity. Language. Land. Becoming. Being. He delves deep into the “who are you” and “why”. Through his lyrical, rhythmic fast-paces rhymes, he aims to do more that entertain. He enlightens. In stark comparison to the flashy, bling-culture of the hip hop of late, he wears his humility like a cloak. “People always wonder about how I made it. How I’m making a living of my art but they don’t know what …
Live @ Tagore’s this week
This week at Tagore’s [ 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town ]: Wed 8: Mandla Mlangeni leads the TRC (tune recreation committee) Thurs: The gospel according to Butch Morris Fri: Hilton Schilder Trio Sat: Adamu da Silva quartet Music starts at 9.30pm – well, it never really stops. We ask for donation at the door – or livestream the ish from wherever by hitting the ‘Listen to the live stream’ link on the left.
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Kyle Shepherd: the beauty of it, the danger of it
by Clarissa Cummings The creative artist loathes hyper-intellectualism. Rationalization tends to eradicate emotion. Surrendering passion becomes another way to pay the devil. But what if intellectualism is not of the artist’s personal doing, but instead of his surroundings, not by choice and inescapable? If in a provincial Cape Town home where the household language is colonial British and an appreciation for art, from Bach to Monk, an artist is born? How, if in this home lived a grandfather who every …
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