WAX JUNKIE / JAN WELTER
I listen to a lot of music so it’s probably quite wise to pin me down to six records. Enjoy, maybe it will open some…
MUSIC
VUMA LEVIN / IMAGINATION, POLITICS AND OTHER SPECTACLES
Vuma Levin is an artist who finds himself simultaneously at the end of history, and in the middle of it. Amsterdam and Joburg serve as…
PSYCHOTHERAPY / PSYCH NIGHT
Psych Night, a collective of mavericks that host regular events celebrating psychedelia in South Africa, is made up of Andre Leo (one half of dreamy…
ABSTRACTION / CARLO MOMBELLI
“I didn’t face many obstacles – my black musician friend faced the obstacles. I remember when I was working in Johnny Fourie’s band, Duke Makazi…
WAX JUNKIE / JESSICA CROSS
“My memories of seeing an LP and my realization of the uniqueness of its sound are two different memories. The first time I can remember…
BLUE NOTE / LOUIS MOHOLO
Louis Tebogo Moholo (1940) is the only surviving member of South Africa’s legendary jazz sextet The Blue Notes, which consisted of Moholo on drums, Chris…
GHOST FOLK / JULIAN REDPATH
“Genre always just feels like a nonsense thing. I don’t think anyone really wants to be labelled so it’s just best to make up your…
BLACK MATH / CHAOS THEORY
“We like to sound different in every song, we don’t want to pigeonhole ourselves to only having one sound, that would be pretty boring. Even…
BEN SHERMAN AUTUMN / WINTER 2015 FILM FEATURING THE BOYS OF SOWETO
Ben Sherman South Africa and the BoysOfSoweto this Autumn/Winter 2015 season showcase ‘THE ORIGINAL BUTTON UP SINCE 1963’ heritage brand, Ben Sherman and the Button…
ALLAH LAS / ECHO BEACH
A short, bearded American chap donning brown leather boots, tight jeans and a sweater pops up next to me and orders a tequila. His holiday…
SISTER OF MERCY / SYLVIE SIMMONS
London-born but San Francisco-based Sylvia Simmons is first and foremost a rock writer, who started in 1977 and has since interviewed virtually everybody, from Rod…
COKE ZERO / FRANCOIS VAN COKE
I wake up in Boston, Bellville, over a cup of instant coffee and a Stuyvesant. We’re sitting in his garden making small talk. I’ve only…
WILDERNESSKING / HEAVY ELEVATOR JAZZ
“People have this perception that if you play metal then you’re angry and hate the world. That’s the general consensus, but what they seem to…
WARRICK SONY / KALAHARI SURFERS
“I was the first dude to cut up tapes and use avant-garde shit with contemporary Lee Scratch Perry studio techniques on Afrikaans radio-political-speech-crazy-ass-punk ‘do it…
NIKHIL SINGH / WITCHBOY
“I generally avoid definitions, preferring to grow like a stain behind things, in dark corners, under beds…etc. One day a person might look up and…
BYE BENECO / CHEMIROCHA
Chemirocha is not only a song that comes from the Kipsigi tribe in Kenya but it also tells the story of how the American yodler,…
BLACK MATH – CAPE TOWN TOUR
Black Math is a Durban based three piece Garage Rock band. This video documents their tour that occurred early January proudly organized by Psych Night…
CYMATICS / NIGEL JOHN STANFORD
The most unusual part of making Cymatics was the fact that the music was written after the video was filmed. In 1999 I watched a…
HEINO RETIEF / GUMBO YA-YA’S / JAMBALAYA
“There’s only one way to record rock n roll, and that is ‘live and raw’. This way, you capture more of the feeling, even if…
PURITY ZINHLE MKHIZE / FIRE IN BABYLON
“Growing up I’d always get Laughed at because people in my community don’t understand and aren’t really exposed To alternative individualism at all. I was…
IAN BRUCE HUNTLEY / KEEPING TIME
It’s 1964 South Africa, the height of what was considered grand apartheid. A large part of the white South African male population sits in their…
ANGEL DUST / THE GOLDEN ANIMALS
“The Golden Animals are like Native Americans in an episode of Star Trek. Jangly guitar accompanied by drums fit for a symphonic orchestra is all…
SANNIE FOX / “RING THEM BELLS
“ My mother is Portuguese and my father is South African, I grew up in London and Cape Town. I love culture and stories, this…