Live Music Magazine
Great title. And blistering opening track. ‘The Gravedigger’s song,’ with its mangled, lurching drumrolls immediately sets the scene. Dims the lights (except for one, which is left ominously flickering), moers the walls of your house down to reveal a desert with a lone, winding road slewing through it. In the tradition of the Bad News… Read More
Filled with the Sparkledust of lore. ‘Morning Star’, Van Der Spuy’s tenth album, is a collection of tales that could – aside from the occasional geographic and temporal clues – come from any period in history. It fits neatly into ancient traditions of minstrels bearing legends and wonder from village to village. Known for both… Read More
This merry li’l Jazz-Funk album laid siege to my car’s music machine most all the way back North from CT’s Jazz and Electronica fests. The outfit’s name references one of legendary Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock’s biggest hits, ‘Rockitt’, but its music digs even deeper into Hancock land. Most specifically, said pianist’s foray into Funk via… Read More
Not to be confused with our own Real Estate Agents, that Bam-tastic duo of Markus Wormstorm and Sibot. The Real Estate navigate infinitely subtler and more placid waters. The Real Estate’s latest offering is so subtle, so unassuming it easily slips into pleasant background humming. But while its pastel hues operate prettily as a backdrop… Read More
“… Audio and Visual are the two turrets of my invisible tank.” Quasi Van Der Wat (Koos to his mum) is a trixy feller. You’re as likely to have bumped into him strutting a makeshift Hotbox or Tings ‘n Times stage in Snor City, as to recognize him as architect of the forthcoming Neon Maggots clothing… Read More
“I sold my soul, at that moment, to the God – Music.” Kalahari Surfers founder Warrick Sony is recounting the moment his fate slotted into place – his future of raising several inflamed and sonically subversive middle fingers to the establishment; of making albums that quoted the Apartheid government’s inane yet dangerous assertions back at them,… Read More
Its clear Anthony Gonzales enjoys what he’s doing. Whether his songs tug on melancholic teenage dreams, explore quaint sonic footpaths, or are full-to-the-brim Dance floor killers, there is a revealing energy present. A double-CD, consisting mostly of vignettes (the majority of tracks weigh in under 3 minutes), Hurry Up We’re Dreaming almost insists on the… Read More
Meneer Parow’s collaboration with grinning, grit-of-the-earth SA icon, David Kramer, sums up the beaut and aim of Parow’s second album. Their collaboration, atmospherically reminiscent of the Nationalist fodder bequeathed by Bok van Blerk’s De La Rey, subverts expectations by being nostalgic without any racial over-or-undertones. Hell, Parow and Kramer even refer to themselves as ‘flowers’… Read More
In anticipation of Albert Frost’s appearance at next week’s ‘Big Blues festival’, we asked the man with the killer guitar a question or two. The man who makes other local Blues-rockers sound about as inspired as Kenny G missing a harp, was nice enough to share some moments with us. Humble experiences like opening for… Read More
Joyous, naughty, beautiful, conniving, brave, restless. That’s just her eyes. Bjork is also immensely, ridiculously gifted – perhaps her only quality to outshine her brilliance is her appetite for Fun. Following the over-the-top abstractions of 2004′s voxperiment Medulla, and the mild slump of 2007′s pan-cultural Volta, Biophilia sees her back at the dazzling heights of… Read More
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