Mukhtara Yusuf is a Yoruba Muslim visual artist, designer, storyteller and cultural activist from Nigeria. Sometime last year she hit me up about collaborating on an audio meditation.
This is a draft.
In 2017, Lindokuhle Nkosi was the victim of a series of violent crimes and found herself fighting physically to save her life. Those incidents, resulted in her suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and a year later, she decided to see a therapist full time. In this wide ranging conversation, she talks about dealing with the trauma; how her relationships have changed since she started therapy and why she won’t be silent about her mental illness.
Read MoreI madeth a mix. Love. Celebration. The Bounce of Spring.
Come To My Garden - Minnie Riperton
Equipoise - Max Roach
Springtime Again - Sun Ra
Come Back As A Flower - Syreeta & Stevie Wonder
It Never Entered My Mind - Miles Davis
Celestial Blues - Dwight Trible
I Want You - Erykah Badu
Bird of Beauty - Stevie Wonder
Sunshower - Dr Buzzard's Original Sunshine Band
Love Having You Around - Stevie Wonder
Don't Stop The Music - Yardbrough and Peoples
Love Come Down - Evelyn Champagne King
I Want To Thank You - Alicia Meyers
Just Us - Khanyo
Ding Dong - Joe Nina
Tsodiyo - Lebo Mathosa
Labantwana amaUber - Semi- Tee, Miano, Kammu Dee
Sukendleni - Jobe, London, Mphow69
Tsiki Tsiki - Mdu
So sometime in 2015 (I think), I met one Lebogang Rasethaba at a bar on Long Street on a cold winter’s night. I remember the cold. I’d walked from the Chimurenga offices to this partially-lit bar. I had a cold. I ordered whiskey. Lebo did too. We spoke and drank and talked black love, Kahlil Joseph, Cornell West and Sans Soleil.
It was decided. We were going to make a film on black love.
Four years later, we did something close to the heart of that original idea. Not that exact film, but the jugular of it.
It’ll be on MTV, on the third of August.
Until then, rhali rhali..
A mix by Spinnie Ripperton exploring the modality of medicine…
Roberta Flack - Angelitos Negros
Nina Simone - My Sweet Lord + Today is a Killer
Amina Claudine Myers - African Blue
Esther Philips - And I Love Him )Live)
Bobbi Humphrey - New York Times
Jaco Pistorius - Portrait of Tracy
Pierre Dutour - Deer Forest
Rare Silk - Storm
Abiah - My Man’s Gone Now
Roy Budd - Afro Blue
Shuggie Otis - Sweet Thing
Axiom Funk - Pray My Soul with Eddie Hazel
Produced for the monograph of Athi Patra Ruga
Sometime in 2017, in the same month the first draft of my MA thesis was due, I participated with some amazing artists from the continent and the diaspora for the British Council ColabNowNow residency, curated by Jepchumba.
Some of the ColabNowNow artists hosted a panel as part of the Fakugesi Digital Innovation Festival.
A short discussion on Kaya FM about jazz, displacement and Miriam Makeba
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Recoded with Kagiso Mnisi for I Know What You’re Thinking, Kaya FM.
Read MoreA talk with Rangoato Hlasane, Nkuli Mlangeni and Laduma. Presented by The Ninevites.
The debut album Matjale sees Thabang Tabane take his rightful place in an illustrious lineage. Releasing a long-overdue debut album, he’s a percussionist and deep musical obsessive who shows the indelible influence of his father’s music. The son of the now late Philip Tabane, his father is a legendary guitarist regarded as the architect of South Africa’s malombo style. Thabang is guided by a fiercely independent ethos, informed by the African spiritual perspective which became malombo music. Releasing it on newly-founded, independent South African label Mushroom Hour Half Hour, he works with labelmate Sibusile Xaba (who released 2017’s Unlearning / Open Letter to Adoniah) to pick up that musical baton: charting new, divergent directions for independent music made in a South African image.
Image by Lidudumalingani Mqombothi
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