Lopsided music contracts are a discordant note
/ 29 January 2025

Lopsided music contracts are a discordant note

What if the music you love was built on exploitation resembling slave labour?  The poignant tale of Solomon Linda, author of the iconic song Mbube, is a reminder of the music industry’s exploitative underbelly.  The song was sold to Gallo Records for a paltry 10 shillings in the 1950s — less than R1 today. It […]

The distant descendant of Banksy’s Flower Thrower
/ 24 December 2024

The distant descendant of Banksy’s Flower Thrower

An intensely focused figure, fashioned from darkest shadow, shifts his weight to his back foot as he prepares to leverage the full elastic force of his body’s frame to unleash what is clenched in his cocked fist. His taut posture and tense concentration are as compelling as they are at odds with the imagined fragrance […]