Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Albums category.
Early Albums for Download
Filed in Albums,Music,Righard Kapp, September 9, 2010, 11:14 amI’ve been meaning for months, nay, years, to put some of my earlier, more experimental music online, and finally i’ve gotten around to it. Just right-click on the images and ‘save link as’ to download the rar archives, should you wish to do so. Traces: 2003-2004 (2005) ” ‘Traces’ is guitar music, but not as [...]
New Benguela album ‘Black Southeaster’ out July 23rd.
Filed in Albums,Benguela,Jaunted Haunts Pressings, July 14, 2010, 1:47 pmAs a longtime fan of the band, i am proud to announce the release of Benguela’s 4th album, ‘Black Southeaster’, via Jaunted Haunts Press. This is also the band’s first new album since 2004′s SUI, coming after an extended hiatus and the improvisational trio’s return to Cape town’s live circuit in 2009. ‘Black Southeaster’ was [...]
Two Great Guitar Albums pt.2: Andre v Rensburg,Nels Cline
Filed in Albums,Guitar,Music,Writing, July 20, 2009, 9:10 pmIt 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) [...]
Delay in distributing two new albums
Filed in Albums, June 22, 2009, 11:08 amDue 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 [...]
Two brand new albums out June 21st 2009!
Filed in Albums,Jaunted Haunts Pressings,Live,Music,Ramon Galvan,Righard Kapp, June 5, 2009, 1:31 pm_______________________________ 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 [...]
‘For Astraea’ in Richard Haslop’s Top 50 albums of 2008
Filed in Albums,Ella Joyce Buckley,Jaunted Haunts Pressings,Music, May 25, 2009, 12:41 pmThe 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 [...]
Limbs Gone Batty: The Buckfever Underground Live Album
Filed in Albums,Jaunted Haunts Pressings,Music, May 20, 2009, 4:40 pmMy 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 [...]
KOOS reissue launch
Filed in Albums,Jaunted Haunts Pressings,KOOS,Music, March 15, 2009, 11:20 pmThis 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 [...]
February News
Filed in Albums,Ella Joyce Buckley,Illustration,Jaunted Haunts Pressings,KOOS,Music,On The Edge of Wrong,Prints,Ramon Galvan,Righard Kapp, February 13, 2009, 7:29 pmIt 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 place [...]
Noise into Punk Times Two
Filed in Albums,Music,Writing, February 5, 2009, 5:18 pmThese 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 [...]
