{"product_id":"indaba-is","title":"Indaba Is","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrownswood Recordings are proud to present\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIndaba Is\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e– a compilation of current South African improvised music and jazz. The project is a collaboration with two luminaries of the South African Music scene, pianist \/ songwriter\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThandi Nthuli\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eand The Brother Moves On's\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSiyabonga Mthembu\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewho act as curators \/ musical directors on the project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBokani Dyer's\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\"Ke Nako\" (now's the time) opens with an irony, because that was a slogan used to get voters to the polls in the first post-apartheid election. Now, Dyer's using it to remind us to think again about who we are and where we're going. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThat's always been the question for \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Brother Moves On\u003c\/strong\u003e (TBMO: a genre-refusing, personnel-revolving performance collective named, with a twist, for The Wire's assassin: Brother Mouzone). Here, it's embodied in a meditation on relationships refracted through the distorting-glass of their context. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt's the singing voices on both those tracks that reference roots even as they engage with contemporary spoken flows and instrumental improvisations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExplicitly, trumpeter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLwanda Gogwana\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e bookends his track with the idioms of the Eastern Cape – galloping rhythms, harmonies from bow music and split-tone singing, a spluttering trumpet reminiscent of Mongezi Feza – and grows from them a chill contemporary meditation: no spatial or temporal barriers here. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChill, though, is the last term you'd use for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWretched\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, vocalist Gabisile Motuba's Fanon-inspired project with drummer Tumi Mogorosi and sound artist Andrei van Wyk and the voices of Black Panther Kwame Toure and liberation leader Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: \"What is History?..\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThat, like \"Ke Nako\" and\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Brother Moves On's\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebitter allusion to \"black yellow and green\" (the colours of the ruling ANC) is the thread of another kind of tradition – the reminders and remainders of South Africa's struggle not yet won – weaving through the album. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBalm is offered by what guitarist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSibusile Xaba\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e has described as his \"modal, groove-oriented roots music\". It is, he says, inspired by dreams; he sees himself as a diviner not a performer and his music as functional for healing. That echoes one of his musical masters, the late Dr Philip Nchipi Tabane. \"Umdali\" is a reference to the Creator, inspirer of such service.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ancestors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eweave Siyabonga Mthembu's voice into a web of musical references forward-looking and historical, including bluesy instrumentals that hark back to what South Africa's jazz bandleaders of the ‘70s and ‘80s conjured up – another aspect of South Africa's musical tradition. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThen pianist\/composer\/vocalist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThandi Ntuli\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ereturns to the theme of identity in \"Dikeledi\" (‘Tears'). \"Who are you?' she asks. \"What do you call yourself?.. the illusion [of who you are] emerges from you.\" Ultimately, the song concludes, rootedness in community trumps image.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut community isn't unproblematic. The persistent fractures in South African society were deliberately engineered by apartheid, results of an attempt to impose unitary, racially-constructed identities on all. All the tracks in this collection challenge that: they demonstrate the unifying power of collective hard music work. \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn that context,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eiPhupho L'ka Biko's\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \"Abaphezulu\" (\"They are coming, those who are above\" – an invocation to ancestors, including the spirit of Steve Bantu Biko) is a fitting conclusion. Opening with the notes of Kinsmen's Druv Sodha's sitar, it smashes another of the walls apartheid tried to build against Black unity: between South Africans of African and South Asian heritage. The classically-inflected gospel voices of Mthembu's dialogue with Indian and modern jazz rhythms and free horn improvisations in joyous heterophony.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLP1\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBokani Dyer - Ke Nako\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Brother Moves On - Umthandazo Wamagenge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLwanda Gogwana - All Ok\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Wretched - What is History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLP2\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSibusile Xaba with Naftali, Fakazile Nkosi, \u0026amp; AshK - Umdali\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Ancestors - Prelude to Writing Together\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThandi Ntuli - Dikeledi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eiPhupho L'ka Biko ft Siyabonga Mthembu \u0026amp; Kinsmen - Abaphezulu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Various Artists","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67802108920122,"sku":"flt1793032478104","price":18.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/1233\/4138\/files\/indaba-is_1.jpg?v=1793032509","url":"https:\/\/zerowasteoutfit.shop\/products\/indaba-is","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}