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/ 10 September 2010
The message is the medium in two new exhibitions at Michael Stevenson.
"This is music from home. Why wouldn’t it be? Why shouldn’t it be?" declares Kyle Shepherd on his Sama-nominated debut quartet album, <i>fineART. </i>
“Who’s got the power?” asks Ravi Coltrane. “You’ve got the power!” echoes a voice
from the darkness.
Anyone who has ever accused the Cape Town art scene of narcissism, self-absorption and cliqueness will feel vindicated.
"Our music is not just carnival – it is the music we play every day, man!”
Simphiwe Dana’s latest album is a meditative cry for freedom haunted by some of the most psychologically bruised African soul-jazz ballads.
Kendell Geers explores the distance between language and the self in his exhibition <i>Third World Disorder</i>.
‘If there is ever an African form of metropolitan modernity, then Johannesburg will have been its classical location."
Adriaan Basson posed a few quick questions to Gazelle, the next best thing in Afrikaans dance music.
The Easter weekend promises to be a busy one for lovers of live music, with festivals offering diverse line-ups around the country.