The collaborative album Indaba Is, facilitated by Siyabonga Mthembu and Thandi Ntuli, is greater than the sum of its parts
Naftali has just released his debut single, ‘Kea Shwa’. He tells us a bit about his music-making journey.
Several jazz offerings at the virtual festival focus on journeys and identity
“To build my ability to convey, I kept on living this life [of being a vessel] and trying to submit to it so that the messages would become clearer and I could get a deeper understanding of what they were.”
Loping, infectious and cyclical, Matjale is Tabane’s stepping into the fray of a commodified and contested malombo sound.
Sibusile Xaba puts his individual stamp on the guitar and lets his ancestors do the talking.