UNTITLED, Zula Bar, every Monday 8pm - "...rhythms down my spine...".
Sitting next to a man named Africa, in Zula Bar, Monday the eve of Heritage Day, I sat amongst fellow Africans who too were in stunned into silence as the ancestors were palpably invoked in a spine tingling performance by the collective that is Apollo Ntshoko, Lungiswa Plaatjies, Simphiwe Matole, Sisonke Godlo.
The performance is like being transported back to the stoep of my grandfather's homestead in Eastern Cape, called eMpuma Koloni (The Eastern Cape Colony) as musicians join together to improvise the ritual of Orishas spitting lyric, to the accompaniment of coolest accordion played grooves since Sly & Robbie Libertango’d with Grace Jones at the Compass Point sessions in the Bahamas.
This was the communing of spirits as traditional ceremonial drums are infused with electric keyboards and and soaring trumpet solos, all kept in check by the Lungiswa’s steady percussion in that signature Xhosa style of ukuxentsa, staccato rolling into syncopation girding those loins.
Its called UNTITLED, Zula Bar, Long Street every Monday at 8pm. Go quick before it becomes Mzoli’s. This is the quintessential African experience especially for locals searching for a truelly Capetonian experience in plurality, diversity and originality.
I am bringing my fellow musicians Third World Bunfighters of House of the Holy Afro heading to Paris (isn't every one this year?)http://www.festival-automne.com/brett-bailey-show1585.html. I feel jam sessions will become traditional sign-off after Pan-African Market Matriarch and Matron of UNTITLED Dr Vuyo Mahlati lead us in a volley of improvised traditional songs.
Get UNTITLED while its still underground and authentically cool and be part of the real Design for Living in AFRICA
The performance is like being transported back to the stoep of my grandfather's homestead in Eastern Cape, called eMpuma Koloni (The Eastern Cape Colony) as musicians join together to improvise the ritual of Orishas spitting lyric, to the accompaniment of coolest accordion played grooves since Sly & Robbie Libertango’d with Grace Jones at the Compass Point sessions in the Bahamas.
This was the communing of spirits as traditional ceremonial drums are infused with electric keyboards and and soaring trumpet solos, all kept in check by the Lungiswa’s steady percussion in that signature Xhosa style of ukuxentsa, staccato rolling into syncopation girding those loins.
Its called UNTITLED, Zula Bar, Long Street every Monday at 8pm. Go quick before it becomes Mzoli’s. This is the quintessential African experience especially for locals searching for a truelly Capetonian experience in plurality, diversity and originality.
I am bringing my fellow musicians Third World Bunfighters of House of the Holy Afro heading to Paris (isn't every one this year?)http://www.festival-automne.com/brett-bailey-show1585.html. I feel jam sessions will become traditional sign-off after Pan-African Market Matriarch and Matron of UNTITLED Dr Vuyo Mahlati lead us in a volley of improvised traditional songs.
Get UNTITLED while its still underground and authentically cool and be part of the real Design for Living in AFRICA
" The Afro is not a symbol it does not gesticulate, or perpetrate or instigate, its the Big Black Truth as opposed to the Little White Lie, THE AFRO IS AFRICAN"
- Odidi Mfenyana
(from his poem THE AFRO IS AFRICAN first performed in 2002 Cape Town Festival, Joburg Bar's L/B's installation art bar, in his sophomore solo One man show "rhythms down my spine"
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