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Live Events: throughout the year, PASS plays host to genre-busting music outfits from global Africa dedicated to exploring new musical territory.
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PASSCASTS: LIVE RECORDINGS FROM PASS 2010
Studio Kabako More more more... future * Brice Wassy Trio * Imperial Tiger Orchestra * Mbuso T and Maf & So Soundsystem * Theo Parrish * Johnny Cradle * G&D (Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime) * Kyle Shepherd Trio * Dr. Philip Tabane & Malombo * Thandiswa Mazwai Trio
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Your week at Tagore’s Observatory: Frontline Music!
Tagore’s Jazz Bar [ 42 Trill Road, Observatory, Cape Town ] Wed 16 May: Simbarembira – mbira trio Thurs 17 May: Church Fri 18 May: Kanimambo Quartet (Christian Bakalanga, Joseph Avergel, Texito Langa & Ikotela Jose Lotombola) Sat 19 May: Ethan Smith Trio (with Claude Cozens and Brydon Bolton) All shows from 9.30pm and free For the live stream hit the ‘Listen to the live stream’ link on the left. Freedom.
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Church
Chief Priest, DJ Ntone on the decks bringing you your weekly dose of shuffering, shmiling, soulful, celebratory sounds.
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So it's a Quartet (that's four folks, right?) Texito Langa, Drums; Ludwe Danxa, Keyboard; Emile Duse, Bass; Ethan Smith, Horns & Flute... in Texito Langa [ Fri 11/05 21:54 ]
So, this set will be somewhere in the playlist on the 13th; i'm certain.... in Annual Stevie Wonderful birthday special [ Fri 11/05 00:50 ]
AS...and Golden Lady... in Annual Stevie Wonderful birthday special [ Fri 11/05 00:49 ]
Coincidentally enough you are listing to a set the Chief Priest did i few weeks back. If the timing is right we will go right ... in It's Church night [ Thu 10/05 21:32 ]
...so does his side-front men: Claude on Drums; Benjamin on Bass; Mandla on Trumpet and the Xonti man on Sax. Enjoy!... in Bokani Dyer returns [ Wed 09/05 22:11 ]
...and cookin', it is.... in Church [ Fri 04/05 01:18 ]
jeez, i feel from a distance that the dancefloor is cooking right now!... in Church [ Thu 03/05 23:21 ]
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The Ethan Smith Quartet
The Ethan Smith Quartet‘s end their residency at Tagore’s with another exuberant set of original compositions influenced by jazz and the traditional music of South Africa, the middle and far East. As always the band feature Ethan Smith on saxophones and flute, Kyle Shepherd on the piano, Claude Cozens on drums and Brydon Bolton on the bass. –
Culture Musical Club interview
Culture Musical Club began life as part of the youth organization of the Afro Shirazi Party during Zanzibar’s struggle for independence back in 1956. Today, CMC is Zanzibar’s most prolific and successful taarab orchestra. The club performs widely at concerts in Zanzibar’s Stone Town, but also frequently takes its music to the rural areas. Their international tours and CD-releases have made the name Culture Musical Club known to audiences throughout the world so that rehearsals in their clubhouse have become …
Toumani Diabate interview
Kora maestro Toumani Diabate in conversation at PASS 2009. Diabate mediates traditions inherited from Mali’s ancient Mande Empire through globetrotting jazz, blues and electro frequencies. A lifelong Bamako resident, Diabate rose to global acclaim almost 20 years ago when he recorded the world’s first solo kora album Kaira. Since then his career has been characterised by a fierce refusal to erect a line between an ancient locality and a modern cosmopolis.