Tag: South Africa
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Ubuntu (Water into Wine) and Sick to D(eat)h
UBUNTU (Water Into Wine) by Sage Francis I was late getting round to listening to Sage Francis’s last mixtape Sick to D(eat)h released the end of last year, but given the new album is around the corner I thought I should. And I was struck by the song Ubuntu (Water into Wine) because not only…
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RIP Madiba
Sad but inevitable news that Nelson Mandela has died, a great man who I think we won’t see the like for a long while. Even the Onion has a nice (and all too true in the age of Obama and Cameron) tribute. Interesting that the usual criticisms of ‘revolutionary/terrorist/Leninist/Marxist’ are in play – the Tory…
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The gradual acid drip of fascism
Something I’ve always struggled with it certain labels, certain accusations towards the UK government and security services. ‘Police state’ ‘Nazi’ ‘Fascism’ ‘Stasi’ – all very easy to blurt out and demean the original usage, and when using them you think about some cold grey depressing country (oh it is the same!) in Eastern Europe with…
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RC 239: Afro-Arab Part One – Cellphones & Icecream
Recently I’ve been checking out what has been called Electro Chaabi (or Cha’abi/Shaaby/Cha3by/mahragan aka ‘festival music’), the new-ish underground hiphop/pop music in Egypt, which led me back to the show I planned after going to Egypt and South Africa in 2011. In fact this music wasn’t new to me, it was all over Egypt blasting…
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The Frown
If you cross Peter Greenaway with a pop video, you get this spooky gem ‘The National’ from The Frown. They’re from South Africa, and Spoek Mathambo shouted them out on BBC Radio 6 yesterday.
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He’s lost control again
Heard South Africa’s Spoek Mathambo do an amazing version of Joy Division’s Control on 6Music this morning, here’s the original cover which is quite different, initially seems quite strange but very crazy by the end. An amazing video, also.