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
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
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
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
There’s an energy that animates the music of song stylist Mandisi Dyantyis, who is among the headline acts on the online Standard Bank Jazz Festival. Dyantyis has long discovered the … Read More
Conch shells, Tibetan prayer bowls, and a black and white cat all make an appearance in this year’s Standard Bank Jazz Festival performance by trumpeter Marcus Wyatt and bassist Romy … Read More