Friday, July 9th
sounds of South Africa
Black Motion, live, South Africa, published 7/8/21
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random sights
other day, outside Chicago (Dean Nature Sanctuary, Oak Brook)
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Category: South Africa
2021
Friday, March 12th
sounds of South Africa
Black Coffee (DJ), live (“You Rock My World” [feat. Soulstar], “Flava” [feat. Una Rams and Tellaman], “Wish You Were Here” [feat. Msaki]), South Africa (Johannesburg), published 3/11/21
2016
Friday, September 30
sounds of Mali and South Africa
Twelve strings, two voices—that’s it.
Habib Koite (Mali; lead vocals, guitar), Vusi Mahlasela (South Africa; vocals, guitar), “Africa,” live (studio performance), Seattle, 2016
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reading table
Deep autumn—
my neighbor,
how does he live, I wonder?—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Robert Hass
2015
Wednesday, April 22nd
sounds of South Africa
Fantasma, “Basbizile,” live, London, 2015
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Another take (Free Love, 2015)
2013
Monday, March 11th
two takes: “Vana Vasesi”
Mancingelani (South Africa), 2010
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Theo Parrish Remix, 2011
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found words
I love America but America don’t love me.
—a guy sitting in front of me on the ‘L’, over and over
2012
Monday, 7/16/12
sounds of South Africa
Why not start the week with someone you may never have heard before (as I hadn’t until the other day, when I bumped into her on WFMU-FM’s Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture)?
Madosini (1922-), “Uthando Luphelile” (Power to the Women, 2005)
2011
Sunday, 2/6/11
In March of 1977, when he was 49 and I was 24 (and newly married),
my father died of a brain tumor; at his funeral, this filled the air.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, “Amazing Grace” (with “Nearer My God To Thee”)
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More?
Here (Grandpa Elliott).
And here (Aaron Neville).
2010
Sunday, 9/5/10
Need a lift?
Rebecca Malope, “Inkosi Inothando”
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Happy (1st) Birthday To Us!
If it wasn’t for the music, I don’t know what I’d do.
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art beat
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, Art Institute of Chicago, through 10/3/10
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2010
Sunday, 8/22/10
I have no idea what they’re saying.
It makes no difference.
I could listen to this all day.
(That’s why God made “replay.”)
The South African Gospel Singers, live, Wales (Brecon Jazz Festival), 2006
2010
Thursday, 7/15/10
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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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)
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