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The loud minority
Ntone, Mighty & Mogale digging the blues (in the Baraka sense) crates.
As Baraka writes it: “The past (black night’s your mother) is also the future (What is nigh is coming-Eve before Am). The Present was here before it was the past and after it was the future.
The world is a tragedy, i.e., it is a carrying, the weight, the changes not time, rhythm, not counting, feeling.
Any and Every-All are related as the one, part of a whole, whole of a part. The hole and what goes in and out, the creatinginginging (as it was in the beginning and ever shall be, world without end, etc.). What is funky is history, what comes goes.
The Blues is the first come from Black-Red, the last, going out to re-come. The cycle the circle. The Red what reading did re-adding reproducing revolution, red, old going out into black and coming black through blue Mood Indigo.”
–Amiri Baraka, The “Blues Aesthetic” and the “Black Aesthetic”: aesthetics as the continuing political history of a culture
Puff and PASS
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Need a Plan Be
Sakhile Moleshe and Bokani Dyer bring the Soul Housing Project. The essence is groove! Taking in everything from the bump of hip-hop cadence to the swing of soul, from the hypnotic refrain of deep-house to the wobble of drum & bass. Listen in by clicking the live stream (left) or check them out at Pan African Space Station back in September 2010.
There are other world out there they never told you about
The ghost gets his archival groove on, digging deep into the PASS crates to unearther unheard tunes, unsung heroes and unsound sounds.
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Makwerhu featuring Wakhile Xhalisa
Makwerhu fuse African styles with seminal boogie funk, rock, classic ska, rocksteady and reggae roots. Bass player Wakhile Xhalisa is also the man behind Ghetto Sound Studio. He’s played alongside Simphiwe Dana, MXO, Lungiswa, Stompie Mavi, Ernestine Deane, Black Dilinjah and shared the studio with the like Ezra Ngcukana, Ivan Mazuze and many more.
Warongx
Raw, loud and proud. Warongx are back at the House of TRUTH (aka Tagore’s aka Pan African Space Station aka Sans Souci) with more loxion blues: homegrown hollering, revolutionary lyrical dexterity and soul-drenched, jazzy playing. For the live stream hit the ‘Listen to the live stream’ link on the left. Or catch a previous set here:
Archival adventures
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