I have been a little silent lately here on AIAC. I’m gonna start posting more, although perhaps in briefer form (do visit duttyartz.com to see some of what I’ve been up to recently). For now I leave you with the White Mandingos: About these ads
Vincent Moon’s Portraits of Ethiopian Music
February 21, 2013 By 4 Comments
Post by Addis Rumble * “Ethiopia is an island,” Vincent Moon explains. The French filmmaker has been on the road for four years now travelling and filming music and spiritual rituals across the globe and releasing them through his Petites Planètes label. 2012 saw him spending three months in Ethiopia exploring and recording Easter in Gonder […]
Review of new film on heavy metal in Angola
January 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
In case you thought kuduro—most recently discussed on this blog here, here, and here—is all that Angola’s music scene has to offer, you were wrong. Although Angolan death metal is nowhere near as popular as the dance and music style kuduro, it has a place in the nation’s fabric. Death metal is no less Angolan (and African) than […]
‘Not Everything Was Cool Back Then’
February 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
T.I.A., Sudanese TV (in Dubai)
January 8, 2011 By 11 Comments
I came across a concert on Sudanese television station Blue Nile TV while flipping through channels in Dubai (lot’s of great music on there).
Dirty Paraffin is “genre-defying”
June 24, 2010 By 2 Comments
We’ve been following The Fader’s Pitch Perfect documentary series since the start of the World Cup two weeks ago. In episode 2, The Fader documentary team receives a “short history of SA dance pop” from Johannesburg’s “genre-defying” duo, Dirty Paraffin. I’ve never heard of these guys before but after watching this video, I’m hooked. That […]
Dazed & Confused on ‘new South African culture’
May 13, 2010 By 2 Comments
The June issue of culture magazine, Dazed & Confused, will a 32-page section on “new South African youth culture” (I want to see what’s in it, although as a I note below, I may be disappointed). The artist Zwelethu Mthethwa (he has a new monograph published by Aperture) contributes the issue’s “Last Shot.” Dazed Digital […]
People’s Culture
April 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
‘The Kaffirs’ of Sri Lanka
January 18, 2010 By 6 Comments
This fascinating short documentary, by filmmaker Kannan Arunasalam, tells the story of a small group of Sri Lankans of African descent and their attempts to “keep their culture alive in the face of falling numbers.” According to Arunasalam, “… “historians say that the Kaffirs of Sri Lanka started arriving from the eastern shores of Africa […]
