A medley of famous SA tunes made famous by Simphiwe Dana and Thandiswa Mazwai. Arranged for vocal

South African Medley

URBAN VILLAGE - MY CALLING

Those who have passed on and who now act as your guardians ask that you look for them. They are there to assist you. Ntodeni is Venda for look for me.  

Ntodeni

The people most affected by violent upheavals and the mothers and their children, this song is dedicated to them. A hidden track off A New Myth this song was recorded late at night in reverence of the goddess and eternal mother.

Mama nomtwana

Experiment 1

Welele is Hakeem Andrsn's Summer Swang on tilt... featuring Big Star Johnson & Melo B Johnson. 

- BksBlk Records 2017

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10 March 2017

Hakeem Andrsn - Pina (Welele) Ft Melo B Jones & Big Star Johnson - Produced By VtheVowel (DEMO)

Igagu: Tribute song to the great Vusi Ximba and his contributions to the world of keyboard playing that influenced my early stages of keyboard playing, his music allowed me to situate a foreign instrument in a local dialect. 

Credits:

Nduduzo Makhathini - Piano

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Eato at The Fismer Hall, Stellenbosch University 9 October 2016

Artwork: Front - Lerato Kuzwayo

Sleeve design: Donne Dowlman

Igagu

never before in my childhood or adult life have I seen a sight more touching than a mother who is a trained paramedic trying to resuscitate her own child. If that child or if that mother were complete strangers the sight would leave me bruised for a really long time but because of the bias we are prone to feel in relation to family this sight will not lave my mind for a really long time because this woman I am describing is my sister. The truth is angels are beautiful creatures and when they arrive we celebrate, but when they fly away our spirits are left with an empty void to fill. My sister says "Lwandile Dlamini was never easy to put to sleep" so with this lulluby i declare "death be not proud for you are but the cousin of sleep"!!! LALA NGO XOLO NGILOSI YA KWA DLAMINI, LALA NGO XOLO MALANDELA.

Robala

Thabang Tabane's long awaited debut album is now available. You can buy the full digital album and order the vinyl or cd using the "Buy" Link above .....

Son of the late, legendary Dr Philip Nchipi Tabane and heir to the malombo sound that he originated and pioneered in the early 1960s, Thabang has been touring the world, playing with his father’s band and other South African luminaries since he was 8 years old. 

Emerging into his own with his debut solo album, Matjale, this energetic percussionist carves a driving, joyous and worldly version of the malombo genre that takes in his continental travels. The album brims with ambition and an appetite for life. Employing brisk tempos, nimble basslines and intersecting polyrhythms, Thabang crafts songs cognisant of the hardships of life, but chooses to deliver them with an irrepressible optimism. 

Expanding the parameters of what is essentially an artform patented by his father, Thabang and his cohorts seem unburdened by pedigree, infusing the sound with a modern sensibility. His reverence for the vibrational resonance and drive of the bass guitar, not to mention his explosive bursts of hand drumming, gives the album an undeniable, cathartic exuberance. 

The album dropped digitally and on CD on the 14 September 2018, with the vinyl coming out on 26 October 2018.

credits
released September 14, 2018 

Composed and arranged by Thabang Tabane 

Performed by Thabang Tabane (malombo drums, hlwahlwadi, toys & vocals), Dennis Moanganei Magagula (djembe, hlwahlwadi & toys), Sibusile Xaba (guitar & sounds) and Thulani Ntuli (electric bass guitar) 

Produced by Thabang Tabane, Andrew Curnow & Dion Monti 

Recorded by Andrew Curnow & Nhlanhla Mngadi 

All songs mixed by Dion Monti & João Orecchia 

Mastered by Norman Nitzsche at Calyx Mastering 

Recorded live at the Tabane household, Mamelodi on 28 August 2016. 

Artwork & Cover Design by Mzwandile Buthelezi 

A&R and Executive Producers - Lindokuhle Nkosi, Chumisa Ndakisa & Andrew Curnow 

Published by Hour Half Hour Publishing.

Lovingly presented to you by Mushroom Hour Half Hour

Matjale

Freedom Station

Thabang Tabane - Freedom Station

Ifele by Sky Dladla Prod. by Tamara Ringas

Ifele by Sky Dladla

wo i i wa wa ho i ho ho mh mh

There’s a place where I must be
Over the rainbow there’s a place for me
Wallowed in self-pity too long
Woke up and the morning train was gone

Felt the chains pulling me down
All the way down deep underground
Saw my heros dropping yeah yeah
Lethargy set in like disease


Troubled soldier in the know
Burdened by the future passed
Fighting fighting we’re all fighting 
For a chance under the sun


There’s a chance we aught to be
Deadened by the future passed 
It’s all in the choices we make
Will we swim or will we drown

It’s the crunch that makes us see
What we are and what we’re not
It’s the crunch that makes us see
What we are and what we’re not


Troubled Soldier

Itai Hakim's Debut EP - The Domino Effect of Conductive Feathers

Release Date 28 April - 1 May
Independent Release

Track List

1. Xivutiso (28/04/2017) 
2. Kokwani (29/04/2017)
3. Dream Swings (1/05/2017)