The URBAN VILLAGE - UBABA

"Its not about whether or not the shooter is racist. Its about how poor, black boys are treated as problems before we are treated as humans"

The Predetermined Destiny - Kagiso Tshepe

Especially if they don't believe you, tell them you have been there. 

I've Been There

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

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

From the bordem, of not being where I belong in the studio, I decide to turn the guitar amp, mobile phone and laptop into the makeshift setup. #sidewalkcyborg #thisisasign #27April

Experiment 2

Corners of Forgotten Theories is a soundscape of musical freedom that aims to channel Africans as spiritual and emotional beings first.

Corners of Forgotten Theories

Taken from the live EP 'The Golden Wake' the track was recorded as part of our debut EP recorded live at SABC studios as the funeral of Mr Gold our ominous character.

Wenu Wetla

DUMAZILE 

" in the post - post Apocalypse.  In the times where the rumour of war is an short-term-memory anecdote for those who have lived through and still live in the war itself. this unceasing light from the barrel of the firing stick/ the TV screen/ the camera flash/ the light bulb/ the pylon/ the stars/ have you seen a star disappear?

                         it's because they become sick and die. "

Dumazile (Zimbabwe, 1990) is a song written by Nongoma's parents Themba and Bajabulile Ndlovu founders of the band Children of Nandi. Dumazile speaks about the stigma surrounding HIV and how it affects the sufferer and those around them. It also serves as a metaphor for  the 'chosen' child that goes through a traumatic series of events before submitting to the calling and how that process affects both them and those around them.

This version of Dumazile is a Live Recording of the performance of the song at ALT BLK CONTINUA series (curated by Msaki) held at The Velvet Lounge in East London in late 2018.

DUMAZILE [Live - East London]

Change - LoveGlori

Your love is like a flower that keeps growing. Like a seed embedded deep in my heart's soil.

Ntyatyambo

"As soon as you touch me I change" – Mr Gold, 

Self proclaimed art movement The Brother Moves On is an ever-evolving performance art collective founded by Nkululeko Mthembu and his brother Siyabonga Mthembu. Determined to belie any one definition, the collective’s work is often deliberately improvised and unpredictable. Collaboration drives the collective, which strives to undermine the traditional authority of individual artist practice and ownership.
Long term members of the collective include Siyabonga Mthembu, Zelizwe Mthembu, Ayanda Zalekile, Simphiwe Tshabalala, Oscar Kgware, Itani Thalefi, Hlubi Vhakalise, Malcolm Jiyane ,Raytheon Orion,  Nolan Oswald Dennis and Stuart Cairns but membership is constantly fluctuating and transient.
Various performers, writers, artists, musicians and activists may collaborate at any given time on different projects before moving on.
The collective create live performances and installations so that meaning is generated through an experience rather than contained within one object. Fiction, re-enactment and the fantastical are utilized in performances like The Afterlife of Mr Gold, which chronicles both the life and afterlife of a supernatural fat cat – and The Brother Breaks the Bullion and The Brother Burns the Bullion – where real word economics and queer identity are amalgamated into a fable of greed and power.
In combining elements of fiction, the supernatural and the fantastical with factual history or recorded ‘truths’ in their installations and performances, The Brother Moves On defamiliarises our experience of both our present and our past. Performative fiction, which drives so much of The Brother Moves On instigates the altered realities through which the collective critique and comment on the socio-political issues of our own reality.

RAINBOW CHILD

The Brother Moves On

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