Moses’ outro
Does life begin at 40? That’s the time signature Moses Taiwa Molelekwa would have reached on Wednesday, 17th April 2013. In recognition of his greatness we’re presenting some notes in his honour/memory. Moses outro deal an arm lose a shack scrutinise a scar encounter makwerekwere death in du noon or dobsonville outrage a constituency considercracksackanofficialrecitearebuttalaaceptarisk […]
Ten paragraphs of Music Criticism
More Brilliant Than the Sun? Kodwo Eshun discusses ten paragraphs of music criticism. (Off The Page, Whitstable, Kent, 2011) With thanks to PMS.
Bajove Dokotela
Let the good Dr [Philip Tabane] inject you in three ways; music, words, video. Records for Bajove Dokotela mix selected and blended by Ntone Edjabe, quotes from Sello Edwin Galane‘s thesis, The music of Philip Tabane – An historical analytical study of Malombo music of South Africa, and documentary by Dumisani Phakathi and Khalo Matabane. Introducing Tabane’s Malombo Malombo is […]
The night Moses died (Parts one and two)
The night Moses died (Part one) by Nicole Turner The night Moses died I was high on the smell of Jo’burg and the way the air, even when it was blasting through the flared nostrils of the Audi, was warm and sticky. Cruising through streets that might be at home in Falluja, skirting potholes under menacing […]
Unchain the art
Gwen Ansell maps the distance between words and music, fiction and autobiography, subversion and submersion through an epistolary review or two books that operate at the limits of language and song. “According to my records there was something/More…mind bringing African control on the corny times/of the tunes he would play. There was Space/And the […]