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Two Great Guitar Albums pt.2: Andre v Rensburg,Nels Cline

It seems to be becoming a habit of mine to write about guitar albums – no surprise there – but also to tackle them in pairs. If you missed my previous lyrical waxing about Marc Ribot and Fred Frith, you can find it here.
Andre van Rensburg – Unfinished Cities
(South of the Border, 2008)

“When he was [...]

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Delay in distributing two new albums

Due to an error at the pressing plant there is going to be a slight delay in getting the two new albums distributed into shops, keep watching this space for news on that.
The launch gig was a wonderful experience, thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of that, particularly The Newspace Theatre and [...]

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Two brand new albums out June 21st 2009!

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It can finally be announced: on June the 21st, this press is issuing two new albums simultaneously. Ramon Galvan’s ‘Outer Tumbolia’ and Righard Kapp’s ‘Strung Like A Compound Eye’ are launched on this night at the Newspace Theatre in Long Street, Cape Town. You might want to check out these sample tracks before moving on [...]

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‘For Astraea’ in Richard Haslop’s Top 50 albums of 2008

The sage-like South African music writer and former host of the ‘Roots to Fruits’ radio show, Richard Haslop, has announced his top 50 albums for 2008, and Ella Joyce Buckley’s ‘For Astraea’ is on it. Also, along with Jim Neversink’s ‘Shakey is Good’, it’s the only South African album on the list.
The list will be [...]

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Limbs Gone Batty: The Buckfever Underground Live Album

My apologies for scant and slightly off-topic posting of late. No excuses, barring not having much to say.
It’s taken a bit longer than it should have, but i can finally announce that  the Buckfever Underground live album ‘Limbs Gone Batty’ is now available. Recorded one fine May night at the much missed Independent Armchair Theatre, [...]

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KOOS reissue launch

This coming Wednesday, the 18th of March, sees the sole album from legendary South African post-punk band KOOS reissued for the first time on CD, or any format since the album’s limited edition cassette release in 1989.
“Forget about Johannes Kerkorrel and his buddies, KOOS were the truly innovative band whose music defined and reflected South [...]

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February News

It is by now almost a tradition on my side that February is a month that brings many developments and plans to the fore. The most immediate one is the 4th Cape Town instalment of On The Edge of Wrong (the festival also had its first Oslo outing in 2008) , set to take [...]

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Noise into Punk Times Two

These are both fairly old albums, which may or may not have fully slipped under the radar by now as far as general interest is concerned, but both of them, I feel, have been great in terms of demonstrating that the reductionist ethos of punk rock does not necessarily have to result in impoverishment on [...]

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Two Great Guitar Albums: Marc Ribot, Fred Frith

Marc Ribot and Fred Frith are similar guitarists in that they  dabble in both austere minimalism (see Marc Ribot’s “Exercises in Futility” – Tzadik, 2008) and frenzied, choppy chaos (see Fred Frith’s work with Bill Laswell and This Heat drummer Charles Hayward in the group Massacre – esp. “Funny Valentine” – also on Tzadik, 1998) [...]