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Special cravings all in the stream
We will feature large sections of themed music up until we open the live stream from Tagore’s, Wednesday night.
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The Funda Projekt
Pura aka Umyalezo presents the Funda Projekt featuring Texito on drums, Emile on bass, Wakile on guitar, Kuda on mbira, Mava on percussion. They produce evolutionary voyage-prone soundscapes that bring together jazz, ancient-future beat-trickery, and both the playful and conscious approaches to the spoken word.
Mother and other tongues
Genre busting sounds from the PASS universe featuring women all Saturday afternoon into the evening. Listen out for Lady May, Busi Mhlongo, Fatima Bramme Sey, Ms Meshell Ndegeocello, Tracy Chapman, Donna Sommer, Nina Simone and much more…
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Ragas & Rhythms
Unbound sounds
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It’s church!
Ethan Smith Trio
Khayelitsha Blues Live @ Tagore’s
Warongx features Wara on guitar, mouth organ, and voice and Ongx guitar and voice. This is Khayelitsha Blues – a raw, loud and proud mix of wide warm blues yodelling, homegrown field hollering, revolutionary lyrical dexterity and soul-drenched, jazzy playing. Check out their previous PASS Studio Sesssion here, watch them in The Creators doccie or visit their myspace page.
A tribute to the life & work of Franco
François Luambo Makiadi—best known simply as Franco—needs no introduction. Guitarist, singer, bandleader, composer, Congo colossus, sorcerer of the guitar, the Grand Maitre. Together with his band, Tout Puissant Orchestre Kinois Jazz, or TPOK Jazz, he transformed music – combining African sounds, Caribbean rumba and American jazz and R&B into the sweet exuberance, and palpable, contagious optimism, dense polyrhythmic textures and sharp social and political critique of Congolese rumba and soukous. Twenty three years after his death in Belgium in 1989, …