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/ 24 November 2006
Julian Jonker explores the reasons why Cape Town loves a good summer street bash.
Saxophonist Robbie Jansen is as close as one gets to being a specialist and he has been nicknamed the Cape Doctor because he blows like Cape Town’s wretched southeaster, writes Julian Jonker.
Healing Destination, a limited-edition release by the afribeat production team — and finally available commercially on Mountain Records — is the debut by the Goema Captains of Cape Town, Mac Mackenzie’s crew of talented jazz and carnival musicians. Julian Jonker contemplates whether the rebirth of goema will sell itself and Cape Town to the world.
Out of the crop of sophisticated, accomplished albums with which independent label Open Records recently started business, Alex van Heerden and Derek Gripper’s <i>Sagtevlei</i> is the most consistently fine and immediate, writes Julian Jonker.