BLK JKS sign to Secretly Canadian
Filed in Music, December 12, 2008, 11:29 amProbably the best news i’ve heard in a while! Well deserved! BLK JKS blog Secretly Canadian
Sticky Antlers
Filed in Music,Writing, December 10, 2008, 4:39 pmPretoria, to me at least, generally seems like something of a cultural wasteland, where derivative white man’s 12 bar blues seems to have a particular resonance. Yet, in these seemingly adverse conditions, a small, insular yet wonderfully self-sufficient and inexhaustibly creative group of individuals are creating music, mad collage art and video under the banner [...]
Ramon Galvan and Shower Songs live & DJ Spooky
Filed in Live,Music,Ramon Galvan, December 8, 2008, 6:24 pmFor anyone in Cape Town keen to catch something very rare and unique, sound artist, lecturer and mandolin player Brendon Bussy has started putting on a series of intimate house concerts, the next of which, on Monday 15 December, will feature his duo with Masha Du Toit, Shower Songs, who play covers ranging from “13th [...]
Ella Joyce Buckley- “For Astraea” 2nd Edition
Filed in Ella Joyce Buckley,Jaunted Haunts Pressings,Music, December 1, 2008, 7:43 pmThe second edition of ‘For Astraea’ is now available from CDBaby, as well as The Book Lounge and Mabu Vinyl in Cape Town. The new edition is pressed on honest-to-god proper cd, but is still packaged in a silkscreened sleeve, in a limited edition of 290. Tracklisting: The Majesty of Violet Sky Lotus Lake The [...]
We Don’t Have to Take Our Clothes Off To Have a Good Time
Filed in Illustration,Prints, , 6:39 pmI’m having a little print show at Hello Again, a friend’s second hand clothes shop (44 Bloem Street, next to Jardine) , over the December holidays, for anyone who’s interested/ in the area. “A miniature exhibition of silkscreened gig posters amassed over three years of wrestling with this fickle but fantastic medium – affable and [...]
