South African Music Magazine
The HorrorFest kicks off tomorrow, but on Halloween night (Wednesday 31 October 2012, 8:15pm) you have the chance to experience the most invigorating happening of the spooky season. The MAKABRA ENSEMBLE will perform their new soundtrack to the classic silent vampire film NOSFERATU, live to the screen for this landmark motion picture’s 90th anniversary. As Read More »
Less than a month and it’s Halloween season. The continent’s ultimate horror event,the annual South African HORRORFEST will hit its 8th anniversary (across 24 Oct – 2 Nov) in Cape Town. Great news, the HorrorFest will have its first Johannesburg chapter at The Bioscope (Fox Street) with a Best Of event screening a selection of movies Read More »
Meet The Makabra Ensemble With the recent accolades of THE ARTIST, the attention has been directed at the magic of the silent film again. Since 2005 THE MAKABRA ENSEMBLE has been resurrecting classic silent Horror films by creating brand new soundtracks for them and performing it live to the screen. THE MAKABRA ENSEMBLE is the brainchild Read More »
Trenton and Free Radical release their highly anticipated album, Giant Step, on March 29th in Cape Town. The band have been playing the Cape Town circuit to support the release of their new single Tomorrow’s Day feat Maxi Jazz (Faithless) which is currently play listed on 5FM and a number of other stations across the Read More »
The recent release of the TERMINATRYX “Remyx v1.0″ album has also re-directed the attention to the unique self-titled debut album, which forms the basis for these exciting re-interpretations by amazing remixers from 5 countries, incl. the UK, Austria, Greece, USA & South Africa (the 1st single announced soon). With the focus on both of these Read More »
Late-2008 / early-2009 South Africas female-fronted Industrial-Metal band TERMINATRYX embarked on finding the right people to remix the entire acclaimed self-titled debut album, a rarely tackled endeavor in South African music (except for mainstream artists doing a few songs per album, not each and every track in sequence). This led to an incredible range of Read More »
“At this rate, Ramfest is soon going to have to seek a new home…” I was at the inaugural Ramfest back in 2007. It was a tiny party, hardly able to qualify for the ‘Fest’ aspect of its moniker but one could feel that something was taking root. Fast-forward to its fifth incarnation and we Read More »
