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)
La sphère de Planck by Lionel Manga ( Ròt-Bò-Krik , 2022)
That evening in Kribi, a Cameroonian seaside resort, a high dignitary of the regime inaugurated his new villa.
The story of the event is written like a fractal: a multiplicity of characters meet there and tell each other. In the middle of them, A55, freshly returned to the country after thirty years spent in France. sent on an economic analysis mission, observes the political and social decline of contemporary Cameroon.
Through streams of thoughts from the various protagonists, it is the very history of the country since independence that emerges. An immense and complex world in reduction, which does not hold any more but by words, resulting from a library as scientific as poetic.