The Sabbath: Glorious avant-garde vigil in sound
Gabi Motuba’s The Sabbath makes ears feel like they see, fingers seem to taste, and eyes listen to the world. Featuring compositions from the album released last year as well … Read More
Category: Music
Goodluck: Catapulting ball of electro-wildness showers the Covid wasteland with happiness
Goodluck rocked the Guy Butler last night. Teens took to the aisles screaming and grooving as lead singer Juliet Harding, radiant in high-wasted, big buckle white pants and thick-soled black-striped … Read More
The Fishwives: Music for submersion
Good lyrics count. Yet the pundits are all surprised Kate Bush’s Running up that Hill has hit the top of the UK singles chart 38 years later. The kids recognise … Read More
Sibongile Mngoma: Here with us
Out there are the shots, the broken glass, acrid palls, zombies, Zuma, bodies. But we are here in the warm feathery bosom of Sibongile Mngoma. Her husky tones, her low … Read More
Oratorio of a Forgotten Youth: Our future made present
If you maintain a deeply pessimistic forecast, you will at some stage be proved prophetic. Our national poet, Lesego Rampolokeng, is an oracle in Oratorio of a Forgotten Youth. “The … Read More