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MBIZO DAY on Pan African Space Station – Wednesday Nov 30th
On Wednesday 30 November, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) will host a 24hr live broadcast of music written and/or performed by healer, musician, composer and painter Johnny Mbizo Dyani (30 November 1945 – 24 October 1986), as well as rare interviews with the artist and comments by people who knew and worked with him.
During his short life, Mbizo helped to establish the Blue Notes, a group he co-founded with Chris McGregor, Louis Moholo, Mongezi Feza, Dudu Pukwana and Nic Moyake, as the one of the most innovative and powerful forces in jazz. Or more precisely, what he called the SKANGA (a family of black creative musics). Mbizo was a highly sought-after bass player and vocalist who performed with some of the music’s most important figures, including Don Cherry, Abdullah Ibrahim, David Murray, Mal Waldron, Famoudou Don Moye, Khan Jamal and many more. He recorded over 70 albums. This listening session is in celebration of Mbizo’s lifework and in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of his passing.
In addition to Chimurenga people, selectors and speakers include Keorapetse Kgositsile, Lefifi Tladi, Marcus Wyatt/Blue Notes Tribute Orkestra, Louis Moholo, Lesego Rampolokeng, Ikapa Jazz Movement, Tete Mbambisa, Maakomele Manaka, DJ Mighty, Tumi Mogorosi, Dala Flat, and many more.
The LIVE transmission starts at 12pm on Wed 30 till 12pm on Thursday Dec 1. Please join us.
(Photographer: Rita Knox)
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PASS landing at OBA Central Library, Amsterdam
From 11 -15 December 2016, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) landed in Amsterdam, transmitting live from the OBA Central Library. The PASS live studio featured a 5-day programme as an experiment in speaking, listening, playing, partying and community; as a performance and exhibition space; a research platform and living archive. Programmed and performed by Chimurenga, PASS in Amsterdam featured collaborations with artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians and rebels whose practices draw from and respond to a variety of contexts; to prompt …
Circadian Clocks: Cara Stacey, Reza Khota & Brydon Bolton
This installment of Stories About Music in Africa features South African instrumentalist Cara Stacey, accompanied by guitarist Reza Khota and double bassist Brydon Bolton. Recorded at Chimurenga HQ, Stacey explores the circadian orbit of time. Stories about Music in Africa is an ongoing project of the Pan African Space Station
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“It’s a shame, they’ll never change”: Lefifi Tladi, Sibusile Xaba & Tumi Mogorosi
Recorded on windy night in April 2016, this Stories About Music in Africa featured the poet Lefifi Tladi (Garunkuwa) with Sibusile Xaba (Newcastle, KZN) on the guitar and Tumi Mogorosi (Johannesburg) on the drums. Stories about Music in Africa is an ongoing project of the Pan African Space Station.
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Born To Be Black: Tune Recreation Committee with Louis Moholo-Moholo & Andile Yenana
This Stories About Music In Africa featured Tune Recreation Committee (TRC), a rotating assembly of Cape Town-based musicians, arranged by Mandla Mlangeni and joined by Louis Moholo-Moholo, Andile Yenana and Abraham Mennen for a free jazz performance at MoholoLiveHouse in Harare, Khayelitsha in 2015. Stories about Music in Africa is an ongoing project of the Pan African Space Station
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Tags: Born To Be Black, Louis Moholo, Mandla Mlangeni, Tune Recreation Committee
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Yoruba Names with Kola Tuboson
PASS landing at Freedom Park, Lagos
From 23 – 26 June 2016, PASS descended on Freedom Park in Lagos, as part of Goethe Institute’s Lagos_Live 2016 festival. The PASS Lagos sessions brought together a broad spectrum of artists, performers, writers and musicians, whose practices draw from a variety of contexts, to participate through conversations, performances and happenings that provoke us to rethink about our histories and to speculate on our futures through artistic and cultural practice.
Pan African Space Station Lands in Lagos
Pan African Space Station at Freedom Park in Lagos, 23rd -26th of June 2016 Launched in 2008 by Chimurenga, the Pan African Space Station (PASS) is a periodic, pop-up live studio; a performance and exhibition space; a research platform and living archive, an internet based radio station. Taking advantage of both the intimacy and unpredictability of the live radio studio, PASS seeks to forge new collaborations across time and space; while also engaging how relationships change and practices evolve. The …
Third Space
Third Space is a collective seeking to unsettle preconceived notions of the other. As cross border transcultural operatives we seek to erase the invisible lines that separate us. Armed with the intangible weapon of sound and the understanding of the power of visual culture,we form cracks in knowledges situated around us. Third Space will be playing truant at the Pan African Space Station agitating new forms of civil (dis)obedience with the echoes of struggles past and present, noise forgotten, remebered …
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Chimurenga Library at the Kallio Library in Helsinki
Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative? In April and May 2016, Chimurenga’s installation Chimurenga Library and pop-up radio station Pan African Space Station will infiltrate the Kallio Library in Helsinki. Chimurenga, a South African editorial collective and an innovative platform for free ideas and political reflection about Africa, will map primarily Kallio Library’s music and multimedia’s collection to create an alternative route to the library’s collection, a setting for …
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