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Joburg / Jozi / Egoli Poetry Anthology

Some months ago Mike Alfred and I decided to compile an anthology of new poems about Joburg. There have been many written in the past but we felt we needed to give a contemporary view (as expressed by poets) given the vast changes in the city over the past twenty-five years – some positive but many negative, reflecting the general impact of ANC rule on a post-apartheid South Africa.

Audio – no money for jam

No Money for Jam

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Botsotso Ensemble – No Money For Jam (Episode 1)

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Audio – taking everything into account

Taking Everything Into Account

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Botsotso Ensemble – Taking Everything into Account (Episode 1)

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Blakcmoon – Mick Raubenheimer

“It is said that writing about music is the equivalent of dancing about architecture. Mick Raubenheimer, however, grasps in Bukowskian prose the embodied, emotional and cerebral qualities of improvisation, as well as the torsions of South African music subcultures. Writing about improvised music requires the disruption of form. Using irruptive anecdotes and in capturing interruptive moments of listening, Raubenheimer comes as close as is possible to the qualities of the music itself. Staid histories of South African jazz inevitably regulate the music. Mick Raubenheimer captures musical events in all their disruptive singularity.”