music clip of the day

Music can be made anywhere—a street corner, a subway station, even a bathroom.

Shiyani Ngcobo

“The Bathroom Recordings,” live, France (Nantes), 1997

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“Izinyembezi” (Introducing Shiyani Ngcobo [2004])

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lagniappe

I’d like to make a plea for a new concept—elastic precision.  It’s what [South African musician] Shiyani Ngcobo has, and what so many musicians have: an absolutely determined (in both senses of the word) and precise groove, with infinite, fractal variants that relate to what comes before and after. . . . Perfection may be infinitely seductive, but it’s the flaws and differences that make the beauty.

—Ben Mandelson, liner notes, Introducing Shiyani Ngcobo (2004)