My favorite things from the last six months

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Recently I was asked to pick my “Best Six,” i.e. pick my “favorite (six) things from the last six months” for a regular feature in “Art South Africa” magazine. Here they are. Filmmakers Dylan Valley (also an AIAC contributor) and Khalid Shamis, in the image above, were part of the list. I added the hyperlinks. […]

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Friday Bonus Music Break

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Tchobari duo shot the video for ‘Quem Mandou? (Me Nascer)’ in Catambor, Luanda “to show a different side of our city”.

Music Break. Trenton and Free Radical

Although this song about the esteemed Nelson Mandela by Trenton and Free Radical seems to hit all the right notes (shot around Cape Town it has guest spots by Ben Sharpa and local hip hop pioneer Emile XY) , it never quite took off when it was released last year. Why? Because it was drowned […]

Music Break

Ever since they started putting out records in 2007, Cape Town based label Pioneer Unit has been catching the local music scene off guard. (Remember them introducing Rattex, KONFAB, Ben Sharpa and Jaak.) But you’ll rarely see these artists on South African music channels. Whatever the reason for the industry’s reluctance in the past, it […]

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