Ithuba Loku Hlola

Birth of the Universe: New Folder Pt. 2 (feat. Tshepang Ramoba, Ngoma Makhosi, Mpumelelo Mcata, Molefi Makananise & João Orecchia)

Mme Wa Tseba (feat. Tshepang Ramoba, Nosisi Ngakane, Mpumelelo Mcata, Molefi Makananise & João Orecchia)

Consciousness (feat. Tshepang Ramoba, Mpumelelo Mcata, Molefi Makananise & João Orecchia)

Anger (feat. Tshepang Ramoba, Mpumelelo Mcata, Molefi Makananise & João Orecchia)

Cursed Are the Curious Children Hidden Beneath Capitalism's Collapsing Scaffolding (feat. Tshepang Ramoba, Nosisi Ngakane, Mpumelelo Mcata, Molefi Makananise & João Orecchia)

The Universe Folds in on Itself (feat. Tshepang Ramoba, Mpumelelo Mcata, Molefi Makananise & João Orecchia)

Chaos Unfolding: The Natives Are Restless (feat. Tshepang Ramoba, Mpumelelo Mcata, Molefi Makananise & João Orecchia)

Love Peace Rhythm Infinity Freedom or Nothing (feat. Tshepang Ramoba, Ngoma Makhosi, Mpumelelo Mcata, Molefi Makananise & João Orecchia)

Hyper Reality Mushrooms (feat. Tshepang Ramoba, Mpumelelo Mcata, Molefi Makananise & João Orecchia)

Birth of the Universe: New Folder Pt. 1 (feat. Tshepang Ramoba, Ngoma Makhosi, Mpumelelo Mcata, Molefi Makananise & João Orecchia)

ITHUBA LOKU HLOLA ...... meaning a moment of searching and reflection ........ journeying through the birth of a universe, a chaos unfolding with the infinity of love, peace & rhythm towards freedom or nothing .... an improvised set recorded live in the inner city of Johannesburg featuring some of the city's foremost experimental musicians ........

credits:

released June 16, 2016

Featuring: 
João Orecchia – electronics 
Molefi Makananise – bass guitar 
Mpumelelo Mcata – electric guitar & hyper reality channeler 
Ngoma Makhosi – host, raps & vocals 
Nosisi Ngakane – vocals 
Tshepang Ramoba – drums & vocals

Broadcast live on a pop-up radio station at the Ithuba Arts Gallery, Braamfontein, Johannesburg on 30 August 2014.

Recorded & Edited by Bobby Quick 
Mixed by Dion Monti 
Mastered by Tshepang Ramoba at Post Post 
Published by Post Post Publishing 
Executive Produced by Andrew Curnow & Nhlanhla Mngadi

ITHUBA LOKU HLOLA

Mme Wa Tsiba (A Mother Knows)

Mentored by Nduduzo Makhathini 

Music received by Sibusile Xaba 
Music created and performed by Sibusile Xaba (guitar & vocals), Ariel Zamonsky (upright bass) & Bonolo Nkoane (drums) 

Recorded live next to Wilge River in Bronkhorstspruit on 22 August 2015 

Recorded by Nduduzo Makhathini & Nelius Zeak 
Mixed by Peter Auret 
Mastered by Frank Merritt at the Carvery 

Artwork & Cover Design by Graeme Arendse 
Published by Hour Half Hour Publishing 

Lovingly presented to you by Mushroom Hour Half Hour

Unlearning

Sibongile : Tribute to the Mother

Sibusile Xaba - Sibongile : Tribute To The Mother

I wrote if for Ziare

Sibusile Xaba - I Wrote It For Ziare

Credits:

Mentored by Thabang Tabane 
Music received by Sibusile Xaba 
Music created and performed by Sibusile Xaba (guitar, vocals & nomaphupho), Thabang Tabane (percussion & vocals) & Moahanganai Magagula (percussion) 

Recorded live by Andrew Curnow & Nhlanhla Mngadi at Sima Kade, Magaliesberg on 26 June 2016

Mixed by João Orecchia 
Mastered by Frank Merritt at the Carvery 

Artwork & Cover Design by Graeme Arendse 
Published by Hour Half Hour Publishing 

Lovingly presented to you by Mushroom Hour Half Hour

Open Letter to Adoniah

Liyabukwa

Sibusile Xaba - Liyabukwa

Credits:

Mentored by Thabang Tabane 
Music received by Sibusile Xaba 
Music created and performed by Sibusile Xaba (guitar, vocals & nomaphupho), Thabang Tabane (percussion & vocals) & Moahanganai Magagula (percussion) 

Recorded live by Andrew Curnow & Nhlanhla Mngadi at the Tabane household, Mamelodi on 10 April 2016

Mixed by João Orecchia 
Mastered by Frank Merritt at the Carvery 

Artwork & Cover Design by Graeme Arendse 
Published by Hour Half Hour Publishing 

Lovingly presented to you by Mushroom Hour Half Hour

Sibusile Xaba - Inkululeko (Reprise)

Credits :

Mentored by Thabang Tabane 
Music received by Sibusile Xaba 
Music created and performed by Sibusile Xaba (guitar, vocals & nomaphupho), Thabang Tabane (percussion & vocals) & Moahanganai Magagula (percussion) 

Recorded live by Andrew Curnow & Nhlanhla Mngadi at Sima Kade, Magaliesberg on 27 June 2016 

Mixed by João Orecchia 
Mastered by Frank Merritt at the Carvery 

Artwork & Cover Design by Graeme Arendse 
Published by Hour Half Hour Publishing 

Lovingly presented to you by Mushroom Hour Half Hour

Sibusile Xaba - Open Letter To Adoniah

The release of Thabang Tabane’s single, Nyanda Yeni, acts as a precursor to the release of his debut solo album, Matjale, which drops on the 14th of September, 2018. 

Son of the late, legendary Dr Philip Nchipi Tabane and heir to the malombo sound originated and pioneered in the early 1960s, Thabang has been touring the world, playing with his father’s band and other South African luminaries (such as Thandiswa Mazwai, Madala Kunene and Mabi Thobejane) since he was 8 years old. 

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 music an undeniable, cathartic exuberance. 

Nyanda Yeni finds Sibusile Xaba’s angular, tweaked guitar and Thabang’s percussive effervescence circling each other; miniature whirling dervishes. In an almost dizzying, looping game of never-ending hide-and-seek, the traditional plea for rain is silk-spun into malombo modernity with Dennis Moanganei Magagula on percussion and Thulani Ntuli on bass guitar.

credits:

Music composed and arranged by Thabang Tabane 
Lyrics from Traditional Song 

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 
Mixed by Dion Monti & João Orecchia 
Mastered by Norman Nitzsche at Calyx Mastering 

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

Executive Producers and A&R - Lindokuhle Nkosi, Chumisa Ndakisa & Andrew Curnow 
Artwork & Cover Design by Mzwandile Buthelezi 

Lovingly presented to you by Mushroom Hour Half Hour

Nyanda Yeni

For malombo drummer Thabang Tabane, rhythms bear no nationality and heed no gatekeepers. His career up to this point has cast him as a sought after hand drummer in South Africa, collaborating with masters of the country's contemporary and indigenous musical idioms.

While the contemporary and indigenous might be thought of as mutually exclusive, the very core of Tabane's musical precepts serve to counter that antiquated notion. 

His second single, Richard, titled after Cameroonian bass player Richard Bona, is a driving slice of updated malombo. A truncated, dubby bassline provides the footing for a nimble, reprised riff that meets its comeuppance in the song's climactic breakdown. Vocally, Tabane inserts himself in the song's meter, teasing out its melodic contours and later decoding its guitar phrases into lyrics about the state of black life in his country. 

As for the title, Richard Bona is a philosophical kindred spirit, that space where the elements and the environment are both the music and the inspiration.

The single, Richard, drops digitally on Friday, the 31st of August 2018.

The album, Matjale, drops digitally and on CD on the 14th of September 2018, with the vinyl coming out during the course of October 2018. Preorder available at https://thabangtabane.bandcamp.com/album/matjale 

Credits for Richard:
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
Mixed by Dion Monti & João Orecchia
Mastered by Norman Nitzsche at Calyx Mastering

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

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

Artwork & Cover Design by Mzwandile Buthelezi

Lovingly presented to you by Mushroom Hour Half Hour

www.mushroomhour.com

Richard

Thabang Tabane - Richard

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

With a propulsive but understated bass and percussion groove underneath her, vocalist and trombonist Siya Makuzeni whips out her FX pedal, transmuting a mystical lyric about finding self, a higher force or perhaps a loved one into a textured, magical seance.

This is the first single from the upcoming, self titled, debut album from SPAZA, which will be out on 21 June 2019, both digitally and on vinyl. For more info, head over to https://spaza.bandcamp.com/album/spaza

About SPAZA:
Conceived in the Mushroom Hour lab, SPAZA is a band with no permanent personnel, with each line-up assembled for the express purpose of recording completely improvised or workshopped material. For this, the initial salvo, SPAZA was put together from a group of musicians with individual and collective links to Johannesburg’s jazz, afro funk and experimental electro scenes, namely Siya Makuzeni (vocals, trombone & FX), Nosisi Nokukhanya Ngakane (vocals & FX), Waldo Luc Alexander (electric violin & FX pedals), Gontse Jnsq Makhene (percussion & vocals), Ariel Zamonsky (upright bass) and João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga (synthesizers & electronics).

Credits:
Performance recorded live at the Spaza Art Gallery, Troyeville, Johannesburg on 17 May 2015 
Performance curated by Andrew Curnow & Nosisi Ngakane 
Performance recorded by Andrew Curnow and Nhlanhla Mngadi 
Sound Engineering for performance by Tebogo Laaka 
Recording mixed by Dion Monti 
Recording mastered by Norman Nitzsche at Calyx Mastering 
Recording edited and produced by Dion Monti and Andrew Curnow 
Cover Art and Design by Graeme Arendse 
Executive Production by Andrew Curnow 
Published by Mushroom Hour Half Hour

SPAZA

SPAZA - Ice Squinchies (Waiting For You)

This is the second single from the upcoming, self titled, debut album from SPAZA, which will be out on 21 June 2019, both digitally and on vinyl. For more info, head over to spaza.bandcamp.com/album/spaza

About SPAZA:
Conceived in the Mushroom Hour lab, SPAZA is a band with no permanent personnel, with each line-up assembled for the express purpose of recording completely improvised or workshopped material. For this, the initial salvo, SPAZA was put together from a group of musicians with individual and collective links to Johannesburg’s jazz, afro funk and experimental electro scenes, namely Siya Makuzeni (vocals, trombone & FX), Nosisi Nokukhanya Ngakane (vocals & FX), Waldo Luc Alexander (electric violin & FX pedals), Gontse Jnsq Makhene (percussion & vocals), Ariel Zamonsky (upright bass) and João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga (synthesizers & electronics).

Credits:
Performance recorded live at the Spaza Art Gallery, Troyeville, Johannesburg on 17 May 2015 
Performance curated by Andrew Curnow & Nosisi Ngakane 
Performance recorded by Andrew Curnow and Nhlanhla Mngadi 
Sound Engineering for performance by Tebogo Laaka 
Recording mixed by Dion Monti 
Recording mastered by Norman Nitzsche at Calyx Mastering 
Recording edited and produced by Dion Monti and Andrew Curnow 
Cover Art and Design by Graeme Arendse 
Executive Production by Andrew Curnow 
Published by Mushroom Hour Half Hour

SPAZA - Five Rand Airtime nama-eveready : 4000 Degrees

dumama – vocals, uhadi and baby synthesiser 
kechou – calabash, guembri (abdelkader), cascas, chitende, guitar, bass guitar, synthesisers, drum/percussion pad, dundun (talking drum), darbuka and shakers 
dion monti – synthesisers 

music by dumama + kechou and lyrics by dumama + a traditional south african song

recorded, mixed and produced by dion monti 
co-produced by dumama, kechou + andrew curnow 
mastered by norman nitzsche at calyx mastering 
additional recording by andrew curnow 

cover art by duduetsang lamola 

executive produced by andrew curnow + gugulethu duma 
manufactured + distributed by !K7 label group 

published by mushroom hour half hour 

lovingly presented to you by dumama, kechou + mushroom hour half hour

mother time

dumama + kechou | mother time

dumama – vocals, uhadi and baby synthesiser 
kechou – calabash, guembri (abdelkader), cascas, chitende, guitar, bass guitar, synthesisers, drum/percussion pad, dundun (talking drum), darbuka and shakers 

music by dumama + kechou and lyrics by dumama

recorded, mixed and produced by dion monti 
co-produced by dumama, kechou + andrew curnow 
mastered by norman nitzsche at calyx mastering 

cover art by duduetsang lamola

executive produced by andrew curnow + gugulethu duma 
manufactured + distributed by !K7 label group

published by mushroom hour half hour

lovingly presented to you by dumama, kechou + mushroom hour half hour

buffering juju

dumama + kechou | intaka

The first single of the new SPAZA album - UPRIZE! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Full Album drops on 16 October 2020. Pre-order the LP on our bandcamp and pre-add the album on all digital stores.

Ariel Zamonsky – upright bass 
Gontse Makhene – percussion and vocals 
Malcolm Jiyane – vocals, piano & trombone 
Nonku Phiri – vocals & FX 

Recorded on 15, 16 & 17 July 2016 in the living room of a flat at Albyn Court, Yeoville, Johannesburg 
Musical direction at recording sessions by Nhlanhla Mngadi & Andrew Curnow 
Recordings engineered & mixed by Dion Monti 
Recordings mastered by Norman Nitzsche at Calyx Mastering 
Films excerpts featured on recordings selected by Sifiso Khanyile 
Recordings edited and produced by Monti & Curnow 
Executive Produced by Andrew Curnow 

Cover Design by Graeme Arendse 
Photo on front cover courtesy of African News Agency | Photographer unknown 

Manufactured & Distributed by !K7 Label Group 
All songs published by Mushroom Hour Half Hour

UPRIZE! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Sizwile

SPAZA - Sizwile (feat. Ariel Zamonsky, Gontse Makhene, Malcolm Jiyane & Nonku Phiri)

M3H007 | SPAZA | UPRIZE! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Feat.
Ariel Zamonsky – upright bass
Gontse Makhene – percussion and vocals
Malcolm Jiyane – vocals, piano & trombone
Nonku Phiri – vocals & FX

Recorded on 15, 16 & 17 July 2016 in the living room of a flat at Albyn Court, Yeoville, Johannesburg
Musical direction at recording sessions by Nhlanhla Mngadi & Andrew Curnow
Recordings engineered & mixed by Dion Monti
Recordings mastered by Norman Nitzsche at Calyx Mastering
Films excerpts featured on recordings selected by Sifiso Khanyile
Recordings edited and produced by Monti & Curnow
Executive Production by Andrew Curnow

Cover Design by Graeme Arendse
Photo on outer cover courtesy of African News Agency | Photographer unknown

Manufactured and distributed by !K7 Label Group
All songs published by Mushroom Hour Half Hour

Special thanks to Sifiso Khanyile, Tshego Molete-Khanyile & Zinc Pictures for inviting us to score the music for this special film.

This album is dedicated to the memory of Senzo Nxumalo.

SPAZA - Xolile Mosi (feat. Nonku Phiri & Malcolm Jiyane)

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