URBAN VILLAGE - MY CALLING

An album i made through out 2024-2025. This album is has songs from 2019-2025 AM I STILL being my first song i ever made.

Positive

Taken off the True Call album. This is another great offering from Nono Nkoane. Album Available on iTunes

One Word

Nanz is the cousin to the Mthembu brothers in the Johannesburg art/music collective The Brother Moves On. After having a dream about the brother who passed she wrote this amazing song in remembrance. It's a new mourning for me and you.  On returning from holiday from School Nandi went to record with Siyabonga + Zwelizwe. This is the recording. 

Recorded by: Acidchipmonks
Mastered @ Jazzworx Studios. 

New Mourning by NANZ ft The Brother Moves On

Hello My Lovely Rainbow Child
Ive been waiting long to see you
The time we spent apart was bleak
And I was hoping we could speak

The wind may blow and shake the tree within its bark
I hope you know I'll always keep you in my heart

Rainbow Child

RAINBOW CHILD

Get It on iTunes + Listen on Apple Music.
https://itunes.apple.com/za/album/okabani-single/id1147870664

“Okabani” is collaboration between the top selling South African band, The Muffinz and popular diva de electronica, Moonchild Sanelly. The track came together as a result of the hit, four time SAFTA-winning SABC show, Jam Sandwich. “Okabani” has aired via the current season but has as yet been unavailable commercially.

Okabani

iTunes

The Muffinz and Moonchild Sanelly - Okabani [Preview]

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

NLL APPS

Experiment 3

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

In December we were visited by Slovenian keys man Bowrain. We recorded a version of his track Resistance which is on his album and due for release in 2020. This is the track without the vocals, for the vocals you'll have to wait until the Summer of 2020 for our new album "S/he Who Feeds You"

RESISTANCE ft Bowrain

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)