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School of hard knocks: Jazz drummer Gontse Makhene has a debut album in the pipeline. Photo: Solomon Moremong
DRUMMER

A phoenix from the ashes

Jazz percussionist Gontse Makhene is rebuilding his life after a devastating blaze at his home

  • Fezokuhle Mthonti
6 min read
A sprawling album: Herbie Tsoaeli’s At This Point In Time: Voices in Volumes has enough to keep a listener engaged for ages. (Photo: Lindokuhle Mbhele)
AFRICAN TIME

Bra Herbie’s instinctive time travels

Jazz is the winner as Herbie Tsoaeli updates his explorations of time in his new album

  • Kwanele Sosibo
4 min read
Taking its cues from the fireside storytelling mode of retaining ancient histories, the record is a sonic film addressed to our post-colonisation but currently white supremist, capitalist, self-serving, corrupt, apathetic, detached and amnesic world. (Mzwandile Buthelezi & Tjaša Gnezda)
ARIEL ZAMONSKY
Video

Shabaka and The Ancestors heed history’s call

“We need to start articulating our utopias, articulating what needs to be burned and what needs to be saved.” — Shabaka Hutchings

  • Zaza Hlalethwa
7 min read