3 new releases due 4 Nov, gigs imminent
Filed in Jaunted Haunts Pressings,Music,News, October 26, 2010, 4:27 pmLadies and gentlemen, we are about to virtually double our catalogue overnight with the release of 3 albums. Two of them are re-issues, to be sure, albeit of albums that wholly deserve inclusion on the catalogue. The new release, by Ampersand, is entitled Demonomania, and is an EP of material he recorded in London when [...]
AfrikAs0:u:+h rhiz0mA+iks
Filed in Music,Noise, October 19, 2010, 5:27 pmExperimental noise is not a form of music that one would readily associate with Africa. The most notorious illustration of this is the controversial compilation ‘Extreme Music from Africa’, released on Whitehouse nasty William Bennett’s Susan Lawly label in 1997. The compilation later turned out to be a fluke, consisting in truth of pieces Bennett [...]
Conservationism
Filed in Music, , 4:28 pmThe last while has had me make a disproportionate number of music-related trips to Stellenbosch University’s Conservatory (well, two in as many months,but that’s still two more than most months). I’ve always been a bit wary of the rarified and isolationist air the US music department maintains among all the indie hipsters and rugby jocks [...]
Pan African Space Station
Filed in Music, October 18, 2010, 12:05 pmOnce again, Pan African Space Station, now in its third year running, has proved to be one of, if not THE, most excting music events in Cape Town. I had a very busy week myself in the week of the live events, so i could unfortunately only catch Kyle Shepherd and septugenarian guitar prankster Philip [...]
