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Category: Music

ETUK UBONG – LIVE at Jam House (Birmingham, UK)

Tuesday 7 Oct from 8pm(SAST) tune in live via the

LISTEN: ZAMROCK EXPRESS

A four-part documentary series on the liberatory sound of Zambia

REZA KHOTA QUARTET: RESILIENCE TOUR

Live at Chimurenga Factory, Friday 12 September from 7pm

NCESH NONXISHI LIVE – The Apho Kungenje Tour

Thursday, 28 Aug from 7pm at Chimurenga Factory, 157 Victoria

UMCIMBI_LATE

Friday 11 July at The Library of Things We Forgot

LOUIS TEBOGO MOHOLO (1940-2025)

FATIMA AND THE DUST – a listening session with Leila Bencharnia

Live via the Pan African Space Station, Friday 6 June,

LISTEN: MBIZO! – a gathering for Johnny Dyani

Performed LIVE at CONSTELLATION, Chicago

LISTEN: SOCIAL BREATH – Asher Gamedze and THE BLACK LUNGS

In commemoration of the fighting spirit of 16 June ’76,

Chimurenga & Septober Energy presents BACKBREAKANOMICS!

Friday, 21 February from 6pm

KEENAN AHRENDS LIVE WITH BENJAMIN JEPHTA & JONNO SWEETMAN

Saturday 15 Feb from 8pm at Chimurenga Factory, 157 Victoria

THIS WAY I SALUTE YOU – a gathering for Keorapetse Kgositsile

The launch of two long-awaited books on our dearly departed

Traditional Intellectuals

Izithunywa Zohlanga use indigenous repertoire and idioms to produce music

Sungura Stories

Ranga Mberi travels back in musical time to the 1980s

Live Broadcast – Water No Get Enemy

In honour of the almighty water we present a day-long

The Way I See It: We Need New Myths

Perhaps the use of alternative points of emphasis is an

THIS THING CALLED SOUL MUSIC

…There is nothing like art – in the oppressor’s sense

MSAFIRI KAFIRI – a conversation and listening Session on the roots and routes of Tanzanian hip hop with Seth Markle

Thursday, 01 August, broadcasting live from 6pm. Tune in at

SANKOFA – A Conversation and Listening Session with King Tha

Monday 22 July, from 6pm. Tune in at www.panafricanspacestation.org.za

The New Thing

The Chimurenganyana Boxset volume 1, a handmade collection of rhythmic

NEW RELEASE! Four Stories About Music in Africa, Volume 1

a limited edition handmade box set featuring four publications from

Unchain the art

Gwen Ansell maps the distance between words and music, fiction

LISTEN: ‘WAR CHORALE’ BY BHEKI KHOZA

‘War Chorale’, composed and directed by Bheki Khoza is a

BHEKI KHOZA TRIO

We are pleased to host veteran guitarist, composer and mbaqanga

Woza Moya

Maakomele R. Manaka revisits a soundtrack of his dreams, long

LISTEN: A TRIBUTE TO KELAN PHIL COHRAN

In honour of the late Kelan Phil Cohran we present,

Heliacal Rising of Sothis – a celebration of Kelan Phil Cohran

Chimurenga proudly presents "Heliacal Rising of Sothis", a celebration of

AFRICAN DAY – a listening session with Tete Mbambisa

Wednesday, 27 March 2024 from 7pm Chimurenga Factory

Calabash Afrobeat Poems

Dike Okoro interviews Ikwunga Wonodi

SESASEDI SA TSODIO / SA KOŠA KE LEROLE: a screening of two film-essays

a screening of two-film essays Friday, 15 March 2024 from

MoRa: Mogorosi meets Rampolokeng with ensemble live recording

22 March 2024 6pm Chiesa Dipazzo Lupi, Melville

EXHIBITORS AND PARTICIPANTS

Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival plays host to the following

Ubuhle Bendalo Community Arts Festival

16-18 February 2024 10am-10pm daily Chimurenga Factory

A Phyllis Hyman Selection, 1976-1982

by Pierre Crépon

The Forest and the Zoo

Johnny Dyani offers a method to the Skanga (black music

A LIVE BROADCAST WITH DAMOLA OLOWADE

Friday, 24 November 7pm Tune in at panafricanspacestation.org.za

HOPHUIS: A SITE OF DANCE AND SOLIDARITY

Thursday, 09 November 2023 from 6pm. Chimurenga Factory

LIBERATION RADIO: MEDU ARTS ENSEMBLE

The music unit of Medu Arts Ensemble consisted of two

LIBERATION RADIO: BOKANI DYER’S RADIO SECHABA

Chimurenga Factory 30 September 7pm

EPISTROPHIES

Saturday, 16 September 2023 from 6pm Chimurenga Factory (157 Victoria

CHIMURENGANYANA: MUSIC NOTEBOOK OUT NOW!

MUSIC NOTEBOOK by Ari Sitas

Chimurenganyana: Music Notebook by Ari Sitas (Aug 2023)

Music Notebook is at once a scrapbook, a bildungsroman, a

CLASS STRUGGLE IN MUSIC

Chimurenga Factory - 157 Victoria Rd, Woodstock Thursday, 17 August

You Ain’t Gonna Know Me ‘Cos You Think You Know Me

a gathering 'n broadcast for our dearly departed brother Malesela

AZANIA EP LISTENING SESSION

Chimurenga Factory - Fri, 07 July 2023 from 6pm

CHIMURENGA PRESENTS SOCIAL BREATH

a collective improvisation 16 June 2023

Chimurenganyana: La Discotheque De Sarah Maldoror (March 2023)

decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe

LATEST IN STORE: WHEN THREE SEVENS CLASH

A collection of writing and images on Zimbabwe, edited by

La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror (tracklisting)

decomposed, an-arranged, and reproduced by Ntone Edjabe

FIELD RECORDINGS WITH SHABAKA HUTCHINGS

FIELD RECORDINGS WED, 22 FEB 2023 from 6PM

A RADIO PROGRAMME ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI

Live on PASS - 14 February 2023, from 6pm

GROUNATION – a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

“Grounation Day” marks the landing of Emperor Selassie I in

Chimurenga presents GROUNATION

a tribute to the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

LIBERATION RADIO: TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC

The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa

MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI

We shall open this new cycle of programming with a

LIBERATION RADIO: MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM

The latest episode in the Stories About Music in Africa

MALCOLM JIYANE’S TREE-O

Live at Chimurenga Factory - Fri, 28 October 2022

TUMI MOGOROSI’S GROUP THEORY:BLACK MUSIC

Live at Chimurenga Factory - Sat, 22 Oct 2022

LIBERATION MUSIC AT THE CHIMURENGA FACTORY – OCTOBER 2022

Tumi Mogorosi's Group Theory:Black Music and Malcolm Jiyane's Tree-O

LIBERATION RADIO

We’re proud to present a new edition of “Liberation Radio”

MASELLO MOTANA’S VOCAL MUSEUM

Live at the Chimurenga Factory

LIBERATION RADIO: PUNGWE 1

Selected and mixed by Robert Machiri

DIALECTIC SOUL

Friday, 08 April 2022 - 7pm @ Chimurenga Factory

iPhupho L’ka Biko – live at the Chimurenga Factory

Thursday, 31 March 2022 7pm

CHIMURENGA@20: A Silent Way – Routes of South African Jazz, 1946-1978

Where to begin? Which silences? There are many.

CHIMURENGA@20: Talkin’ ‘bout Survival – The Repatriation of Reggae

Where Apartheid and broadcasters divided South Africans culturally, here comes

PASS LANDING AT KUNSTNERNES HUS, OSLO

From Wednesday, 17 - Saturday, 20 February, 2021, Pan African

THE BROTHER MOVES ON RETURNS

Chimurenga Factory Saturday, 06 November 2021

CHE IN THE CONGO, ELECTRIC GUITARS AND THE INVENTION OF AFRICA

Featuring solos by Franco Luambo Makiadi, Pepe Felly Manuaku, Bansimba

NEW STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA

PASS presents: Salim Washington, Dalisu Ndlazi, Asher Gamedze in conversation

READING FRED HO

Gwen Ansell and Salim Washington celebrate the revolutionary life, language

HOME IS WHERE THE MUSIC IS

The latest addition to the Chimurenganyana series

CHIMURENGA SESSION: THE AFRO EURASIAN ECLIPSE

Bebson de la Rue & Tryonix – LIVE at PASS

Bibi Tanga – LIVE at PASS

Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band – LIVE at Assembly, Cape Town

BLK JKS -LIVE at Assembly, Cape Town

Funsho Ogundipe & Ayetoro – LIVE at PASS

Cindy Blackman Quartet – LIVE at Slave Church, Cape Town

Madala ‘Bafo’ Kunene – LIVE at Slave Church, Cape Town

Toumani Diabate – LIVE at Slave Church, Cape Town (2009)

Studios Kabako presents ‘moremoremore…FUTURE’ – LIVE at City Hall, Cape Town

SONGS FOR BIKO and other stomps, screams and prayers

SALIM WASHINGTON, DALISU NDLAZI, ASHER GAMEDZE… IN CONVERSATION

PASS LANDING AT LAVOIR MODERNE PARISIEN, PARIS

SALIM WASHINGTON, DALISU NDLAZI, ASHER GAMEDZE… IN CONVERSATION

Thursday, 24 June 2021 - 6pm

THE SUMMER OF ’69

Writer Pierre Crépon selects recordings illustrating his essay on the

CHIMURENGA CHRONIC – IMAGI-NATION NWAR – OUT NOW!

PASS in Oslo (17 – 20 February 2021)

PANAFEST, hosted by Chimurenga

A web documentary, audio-video archive and online cartography, that chronicles

QAMATA PULA, an ancestral invocation

iPhupho L’ka Biko and Pan African Space Station present QAMATA

Creative Urban Momentum: Witnessing the Black Unity Trio

In anticipation of the release of Black Unity Trios' legendary

African Cities Reader I: Pan-African Practices

Featuring writing and musings by Rustum Kozain, Jean-Christophe Lanquetin, Gabeba

African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures

The second installment of the Reader features Sean O’Toole, David

African Cities Reader III: Land, Property & Value

The third installment of the Reader explores the unholy trinity

Abbey Lincoln’s Scream: Poetic Improvisation as a Way of Life

We are standing under a glaring spotlight screaming at the

FESTAC AT 45: FESTAC ’77, a mixtape by Chimurenga

In this mix, we decompose, an-arrange and reproduce the sound-world

RIP PAPA GEORGE

They Won’t Go When I Go

A Manifesto/ Meditation on State of Black Archives in America

How Third World Students Liberated the West

In a twist to mainstream tropes of radical student movements

IN THE BOOKSHOP: KINSHASA CHRONIQUES / KINSHASA CHRONICLES

Kinshasa Chronicles is a richly textured encounter featuring seventy artists,

Who Kill Kabila – Angola Mix

We tune into radio trottoir, radio one battery, radio 33,

Listen to “Sankomota: An Ode in One Album”

On 31 May, we hosted the launch of Phehello Mofokeng‘s

FESTAC ’77: PASS Playlist

A Festac 77 Mixtape featuring Randy Weston, Mandla Langa, Carlos

Dislocations in the Congolese World of Sound

A few years ago, while researching the political history of

HIKIMA – a letter from Zaria

She eyed me. A thing wet around her eyes, like

Denderah Rising with Georgia Anne Muldrow + Thandi Ntuli Quartet + The Monkey Nuts

The Invention of Africa by Franco & T.P.OK Jazz

The output of Luambo Makiadi aka Franco, from the legendary

N’Dombolo: the postulation of the post-Zaïko generation

First and foremost, an artistic secretion (the magical respiration of

P.A.S.S. HARARE

Whatever Zimbabwe is, and is becoming, already exists in the

Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime LIVE at Guga S’thebe, Langa

Brice Wassy LIVE at Albert Hall

PASS presents: FOKN Bois (LIVE at Greatmore Studios)

Floating Points LIVE at Gugu S’thebe Theatre

Neo Muyanga – The Sex For Money No Power Mixtape

Revisit moments from the PASS landing in Amsterdam

Udaba with Kgafela oa Mogogodi – LIVE at Centre for the Book, Cape Town (2009)

PASS LANDING AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF ZIMBABWE, HARARE

From 9 – 12 November, the Pan African Space Station

STORIES ABOUT MUSIC IN AFRICA – Ingoma Yomzabalazo with Iphupho Lka Biko

Recorded live at Chimurenga HQ, Cape Town, in February 2017

Creating Theatre: A George Hallett Photo Essay

Call for an Archive of AfroSonics

The collective improvisations of black America – and their profound

Salut Deleuze!

DIPALO a mixtape for those who practice counting

DIPALO: a mixtape for those who practice counting, composed, arranged

CHIMURENGA SESSION: KAAPSTAD! (AND JOZI, THE NIGHT MOSES DIED)

A Chimurenga Session to launch Chimurenga Magazine Issue 7 -
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