Composed, arranged and performed by Neo Muyanga, this audio cd supplement was part of the Chimurenga Chronicle (October 2011) , a speculative newspaper which is issue 16 of Chimurenga.
Tracklist:
a) 1+1= (a re-composition of a 5000-year-old offering to Lord Ganesha, the Hindu deity, an opener of sorts)
b) 4:7 (heaven’s on the ocean is a proportional refrain on reaching nirvana, the 7th grade, via the mundane material world)
c) 3sin= rθ (sino projection technology theme)
d) 3(x)n (illegal border crossing and migration theme. composed for dancers)
e) e=mcx \rightarrow \infty (a true story about an explosive riot day with SADF soldiers who attacked Soweto on June 16th, 1985. Composed for those who got hurt)
f) ƒ:X→Y (horizon heart aflame. Composed for a lover)
g) (a summing of random themes theme)
h) 4x+2 (the 2 or 4 step theme)
i) y~ 6/8 (a travelling theme in 6 parts over eight. Composed for puppets)
j) y\ge \!\, 6/8 (a running theme in 6 parts over 8 )
k) 1/4° (a kota bread theme. Composed for skolies and thieves)
l) (a perpetual circle. Composed for an apartheid-era multi-racial soccer club)
Heart's Hunger by Karen Press (Deep South, 2024)
Heart’s Hunger spans thirty years of Karen Press’s writing, including love poems, historical, political poems, lyrics, satires and poems of place.
Karen Press was born in Cape Town in 1956, where she lives and works as a freelance editor and writer. She has published ten collections of poems, including The Little Museum of Working Life (2004), The Canary’s Songbook (2005), Slowly, As If (2012) and The Loving and Loveable City (May Not Yet Be Here): An Atlas of the Cape Peninsula (2023). In 1987 she co-founded the publishing collective Buchu Books. In 2015 she received the Literary Translators Award for the translation into English of Mede-wete and Synapse by Antjie Krog.