Manufacturing Kings - Elysium Garcia

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

South African Medley

URBAN VILLAGE - MY CALLING

Each chord hops along like frogs on lily pads.

Lily pads

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

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

- BksBlk Records 2017

Powers⚡️

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

NLL APPS

Experiment 3

Nomgqibelo

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

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)