In its new production of La Bohème, South African company Isango Ensemble re-imagines Puccini’s Paris in Cape Town, and brings it to Hackney. Does it work? Continue reading Love, death and money. La Bohème / Abanxaxhi
Posts tagged South Africa
We love both previous editions of Next Stop…Soweto as both are totally brilliant and so different whilst the third in the series is just as good, if not the best of the lot!
It’s here at long last! The World Cup coincides with the return of the much missed Mr Bongo label with a fantastic Brazilian football themed compilation – let the drums ring out.
Continue reading V/A – Ginga: The Sound Of Brazilian Football
Far Out release the Original Sound Track to the brilliant film Garrincha ‘Estrela Solitaria’ on CD and they couldn’t have timed it better.
Continue reading V/A – Garrincha!! Estrela Solitaria (The Lonely Star)
This album of spiritually-uplifting African reggae is a fitting way to mark Bob Marley’s 64th birthday.
Miriam was one of the 20th Century’s most extraordinary women. A musical giant, a campaigner and someone whose life was inextricably linked to the fight against Apartheid and for the civil rights movement and African liberation
Embracing the sound of New York’s blooming jazz barbershop quartet scene during the 1940s and 1950s, this album by the South African foursome takes the jazz sound to the home land
Continue reading The Manhattan Brothers – The Very Best of the Manhattan Brothers
Israel’s premiere soul collective are representing soulful music, regardless of genre
Continue reading United People of Zion – The Middle East Beats Process
