Autobiography of an Evening is the third single off the upcoming Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys album, ‘Teen Tapes (for performing your own stunts)’. 

Written shortly after Lucy had finished reading ‘Autobiography of Red’, a novel in verse by Anne Carson. Carson has the ability to merge the mythological and the profound with the more pedestrian and mundane in a deeply humanising way. The song title is a nod of gratitude towards the book and the author.

The song is about trying to hold onto moments of intense connection as a way out of the terror of the every day. About the courage in continuing the attempt to transcend, while half aware of the inevitable descent. 

‘Teen Tapes (for performing your own stunts)’ is the third album in the band’s trilogy of tapes and is the much needed release. An almost juvenile expression of emotion. The full album will be out through Unique Records on the 8th of April. The band will go on tour this Spring in support of the record.

Teen Tapes (for performing your own stunts)

06 - Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys - Autobiography Of An Evening

Teen Tapes (for performing your own stunts) will be out through Unique Records in April 2022. It follows 2021’s Transit Tapes (for women who move furniture around) and completes the trilogy which began with the introverted collection of lullabies, Sleeping Tapes for Some Girls.
 
The upcoming album was workshopped and recorded in Berlin with Liú Mottes, Andreas Miranda and Martin Perret, the same players who created and recorded Transit Tapes with Kruger.

Amsterdam

05 - Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys - Amsterdam

Cocoon is a love song about being so comfortable in the presence of another person that you’re able to spend weeks or months alone with them in a confined space and never feel like anything is missing. Conceived during winter lockdown, it’s intended to evoke feelings of calm, warm safety.

Cocoon

Dangerfields - Cocoon

Goodbye

A print for Palestine. x

The song is a poem by Refaat Alareer, a renowned Palestinian poet, academic, and activist, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza, alongside six members of his family.

Listening to the poets to try and make space for the individual stories told in unthinkable statistics. 

All money from the purchase of the print will go to Gift of The Givers, a South African foundation doing important work in Gaza. 
https://giftofthegivers.org/disaster-response/gaza-airstrikes/60106/

Ceasefire. x

“IF I MUST DIE” 

BY REFAAT ALAREER

If I must die, 
you must live 
to tell my story 
to sell my things 
to buy a piece of cloth 
and some strings, 
(make it white with a long tail) 
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza 
while looking heaven in the eye 
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze— 
and bid no one farewell 
not even to his flesh 
not even to himself— 
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above 
and thinks for a moment an angel is there 
bringing back love
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale.
––––––––

Musical interpretation by Lucy Kruger and design by Julia Schimautz.

Download song and animation here -
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/lq1acps4cq8uwxuep0x19/h?rlkey=5b4hq0qy0g7u3q3m12kqaj9v3&dl=0

If I Must Die

Titled “Out of the Dark”, it is a relentless, compulsively listenable track that dials up the group’s signature mix of post-punk, indie, shoegaze and pop to 2024. It’s also the title of a new Sakawa Boys album, due out on The Good Times Co on (28 June) - and only the second full-length from this Cape Town-based quartet comprising John Seth (vocals and guitar), Peter Scott (drums), Skye MacInnes (guitar) and Keenan Oakes (bass).

Out Of The Dark

Sakawa Boys - Out Of The Dark

In this transformative rendition of Leraba's track "Morea-rea," Nane Kahle's boundless creativity intertwines seamlessly with Leraba's evocative original, breathing new life into its essence and inviting listeners on an unforgettable auditory journey. As the remix unfolds, it becomes clear that Nane Kahle's artistic vision extends beyond mere sound—each note serves as a testament to the enduring power of music to unite, inspire, and transform.

Morena Leraba - Morea-rea (Nane Kahle Remix)

Passé

Photo of SPIKE MILLIGAN 1975 by Gus Silber. SPIKE MILLIGAN SA TOUR 1975 - a few minutes of the 2nd Half last show 5 Dec 1975 recorded by David Marks; a rough mix featuring DES LINDBERG (brought onto the tour at the last minute in place of Jeremy Taylor... who was prohibited from entering the RSA); NINA VAN PALLANT-KIRBY and LIONELL MARTIN (PILLAY) - Piano. The band: Ash Kelly - Bass; Brian Hanger - Drums; Jimmy Gilmore - Guitar; Spike Milligan - Trumpet on encore with 2 poems and 2 songs. Master tapes stored in 3rd Ear Music's Hidden Years Music Archive at the University of Stellenbosch.

SPIKE 05 Dec 1975 - HYMAP Demo Mix 02 - 04

In memory of Doctor Malombo Philip Tabane RIP 18.05.18
PAMPA MADIBA - THE MALOMBO JAZZ MEN 1976: PHILIP TABANE - Guitar, Vox and Penny Whistles. GABRIEL 'MABI' TOBEJANE - Venda Drums, Shaker, Jews Harp (Konkoro) & Good Humour. Introduction by Phoenix Players Director GIDEON KAMEWE.

Recorded off the PA Mix by David Marks onto a 2 Track ReVox. (HDD & CDR 528) 20th July 1976. Malombo manager and promoter, PETER DAVIDSON.

These recorded tracks were meant to be used as a soundtrack of a 3rd Ear Music Malombo concert filmed by George Lindsay & Roger Harris for Alex Learmont & George Lindsay Films (16mm Film - Audio direct from my PA mix). The concert was part of a series of 3rd Ear Music / NUSAS Wits Great Hall events... previous productions included Tribal Blues (1971), Music for Africa, and many others. It turned out to be a great show - but we've never heard of or seen the film. I believe the sponsors (SAB? I think?) decided to can it. But where would it be? Can we maybe find it?

The concert was a last minute compromise. I had booked Philip and Mabi thru manager Peter Davidson for our Market Theatre Café, some months earlier but in the month that we opened the Market Theatre Café the tragedy of June the 16th struck. George Lindsay wanted to film Malombo but thought that our 3rd Ear Music Market Theatre Café was too small. (The big theatre hadn't opened.)

As would often happen with the Wits Great Hall, through NUSAS or the SRC, we (3rd Ear Music & Friends) would often pencil in whatever open dates they had and promise to fill them...  with 'something'... Wits being the only venue - other than the Market - that 'allowed' mixed music and audiences. 3rd Ear Music had booked the 19 and 20th July 1976 almost a year earlier. I suggested to George & Roger that if they wanted to film we present Malombo in the Great Hall. 

Everybody thought we were crazy. Hardly any city folk had heard of Malombo. So with whom were we going to fill the 2,000 seats?

In around late 1974 I had introduced Peter Davidson (and my various desk mixed Malombo tapes) to WEA A&R, our dear late friend, Richard Sassoon. Richard had cautiously agreed to accompany our 3rd Ear Music / Hanley Sound system to experience Malombo live; in Soweto and Mamelodi. He was mightily impressed.

WEA eventually recorded the album PELE PELE for Atlantic Records. With an album and a commercial record label behind it, and banking on our previous 5 years of Free Peoples Concerts at Wits, we knew the Great Hall would be packed out. And it was for two shows.

See also: The Township Blues Crews & a Farm Boys Rock - A Theory! 
http://www.3rdearmusic.com/hyarchive/hyarchive/malombo.html

Hidden Years Music Archive Project Page from the University of Stellenbosch  >> www.facebook.com/hiddenyearsmusicarchiveproject << or on twitter @HYMAProject. Dr. Lizabé Lambrechts Volkswagen Stiftung Research Fellow, Stellenbosch University. Project Manager: Hidden Year Music Archive Project (HYMAP) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - 3rd Ear / David Marks Archive Project

Pamba Madiba - Malombo Jazz Men 1976 - Intro Gideon Kamewe

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