Category: Jazz
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Workshop: Preserving Arts, Heritage and the Culture of Music with Billy Monama
The workshop streamed focuses on South African heritage music styles such as Marabi, African Jazz, Kwela, Mbaqanga, Maskanda, as well as the basics of the music business.
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Diteboho – Still Waters (ft. Rorisang Sechele, Phonikz & Ofentse Moses Sebula) | #SongOfTheMonth : November
you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” This quote from Amy Poehler is the driving…
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[Listen] | Emamkay – DELTA [Album]
EMAMKAY is a South African record producer, emcee and keyboardist raised between Johannesburg Soweto and Pretoria. His dense sound is often likened to Lo-Fi with jazz overtones and a touch of hip hop. His recent soul and electronic inspired project ‘Delta‘ dropped in 2020 was showcased on 5FM’s (South Africa’s national radio station) award-winning show, Selective…
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EMAMKAY – When The Sun Rises (ft. Bokang Ramatlapeng) | #SongOfTheMonth : August
When rainy days come flooding in your life, it’s hard to see through the dark clouds of chaos. One healing component that has been the source of hope & inspiration for humankind through these tough times, is music. This became more evident when Emamkay & Bokang Ramatlapeng came together to bring us a beacon of…
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Listen | Ofentse Moses Sebula – H.O.P.E (Holding on to Positive Expectations) [Album]
Ofentse Moses Sebula, South African jazz saxophone protégé and Performing Arts (Music) student at the Tshwane University of Technology’s Faculty of Arts and Design releases his album. The project was engineered, recorded, mixed, and mastered by award-winning producer and Music lecturer, Lanie van der Walt, at Wolmer Records.
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GALLY NGOVENI – Live at SAST Fringe
Musician born in Giyani town (Republic of South Africa). Song writer, Singer, Multi-instrumentalist and Performer with interest in music that started at a very young age and continued ever since. Participated in many bands as a Bassist, including The Exclusive, Jazz Revolution, Soca Band, Quest etc.
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The Art of Gratitude with Diteboho
It took us a couple of years to finally hear the recorded version of the long awaited composition of Diteboho, named after the artist’s stage name ‘Diteboho’. Over time we’ve had the honour of witnessing the live rendition of this original masterpiece in different creative spaces, alongside his musical peers and in some instances as…
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Bongani Givethanks – Indoda
This is a project i have been busy with for the past months and i am happy to be sharing it with you. Indoda is based on a true story about a young woman who was constantly physically and emotionally abused by her lover and despite all the efforts her family did to help her…
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Bongani Givethanks – Indoda [EP]
This is a project i have been busy with for the past months and i am happy to be sharing it with you. Indoda is based on a true story about a young woman who was constantly physically and emotionally abused by her lover and despite all the efforts her family did to help her…
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[Listen]: Virtual Scrapbook Issue 1 Page 5: Cncptualst – Poco A Poco
Virtual Scrapbook Issue 1 by The Abstract with Hebz presents Page 5 mixed by the founder of Fragments of Art (FOA), Cncptualst. This one is for the jazz music fans.