Thanks to a reference to this remix competition on the MIO website , I went and did a bit more reading about this pretty exciting remix competition that opened up at the beginning of the month. Creative Cape Town have partnered with BPM magazine, Mutha FM and Paul Bothner Music to bring this fantastic competition to the public. For those that don't know, Creative Cape Town is an initiative designed to promote and manage Cape Towns city centre, by combining both the public and private sectors. For more about what they do, have a [...]
The album is the aural equivalent of a nature walk, and the South African scenery offers constant surprise and stimulation. The legendary South African jazz pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim began playing with the combo Ekaya back in 1983. The politics of his home country got in the way of their continuance as a band. This new release features a different group of musicians under that same name. "Ekaya" means home, which was a radical statement for a black man to make during the Apartheid years. Now, judging by the music on the new release, Ekaya is...
We previously highlighted the work of Nicolas Jaar when fellow Potholesian Brian Hodge hipped us to the Love You Gotta Lose Again stream, which apparently is no longer available. What is available, though, is his gorgeous cover of jazz classic "Ishmael". The track is originally by South African pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim, who probably didn't have snappy electronics and pulsing bass in mind when he recorded the track in the '70s. Even so, I think Ibrahim would be proud of this take, should he ever get around to sampling Jaar's catalog. [ via [...]
Blues for a Hip King is a Jazz album by South African artist Abdullah Ibrahim. 1. "Ornette's Cornet" - 5:23 2. "All Day & All Night Long" - 5:28 3. "Sweet Basil Blues" - 6:21 4. "Blue Monk" (Monk) - 6:06 5. "Tsakwe Here Comes the Postman" - 11:45 6. "Blues for a Hip King" - 9:47 7. "Blues for B" - 3:27 8. "Mysterioso" (Monk) - 4:41 9. "Just You, [...]
The past few years have been good for Sathima Bea Benjamin (1936- ), an artist who seems to be "rediscovered" at least once every decade. 2008 saw the reissue of her 1963 date with Duke Ellington, A Morning in Paris , previously released only once by Enja in 1996. This year, a new film by York University Professor of Anthropology Daniel Yon about Benjamin's life, titled Sathima's Windsong , is being released (though I can't find much information about release dates or festival showings). Benjamin is famous for being the wife of Abdullah Ibrahim/Dollar Brand as [...]
Brazilian Girls : Two Nation Army . Now that the U.S. has been knocked out of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, who should Americans root for? (Those of us who follow football, anyway.) Well, if we're as multi-culti as we like to think, we probably all have roots in other countries-or a couple if you're Brazilian Girls' Sabina Sciubba. The best part about the World Cup is the exposure it brings to international music. Two-hundred and four countries attempted to qualify for this installment of the World Cup, and here we present a selection of [...]
rural south african soccer The World Cup starts today and I'm in the thick of it. A game will be played 500m from my doorstep in a few scant hours. The anticipation is madness; I think the country will explode before the first game. My South African parents didn't listen to pop music but we did have Graceland . My brother and I would blast the opening accordion riff of "I Know What I Want" and dance around the living room while my parents were out. After that I started collecting music on [...]
Filed under: Around the World It's like something from Sergio Leone . Or Quentin Tarantino . Najma Akhtar answered a knock on the door of her London flat one day in 2006 to find a mysterious man standing there, cowboy hat on his head, guitar case in his hand. "He walked in with his cowboy hat, whipped his guitar out and said, 'OK, let's do something.' " she recalls by phone from that same locale. The result was less [...]
TINTIYANA, FIRST PART TINTIYANA, SECOND PART Dollar Brand African Space Program Enja : 1974 DB, piano; Sonny Fortune, Carlos Ward, alto sax, flute; Roland Alexander, tenor saxophone, harmonica; John Stubblefield, tenor sax; Hamiet Bluiett, baritone sax; Cecil Bridgewater, Enrico Rava, Charles Sullivan, trumpet; Kiane Zawadi, trombone; Cecil McBee, bass; Roy Brooks, drums, percussion. It's easy to imagine the title of this album being taken in the spirit of any number of [...]
GOOD NEWS / SWAZI / WAYA-WA-EGOLI MONIEBAH / THE PILGRIM Good News from Africa Abdullah Ibrahim Enja : 1973 AI, piano, bells; Johnny Dyani, bass, bells, vocals. One of the loveliest strains in jazz flows straight out of South Africa. The almost unbearable beauty of this music stands in stark contrast to - and defiance of - the brutal conditions that fostered it. Abdullah Ibrahim, as defiant a musician as any, is himself responsible [...]
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