Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
R&B singer-songwriter Wynter Gordon is taking a considerable step outside her comfortable mid-commercial range with her new single ‘Stimela’ and its self-directed video, but it’s hard to argue that it isn’t reeking of the worst type of structural World Music arrogance. It practically has it all: the cleverly metaphorical words from Hugh Masekela’s lament of migrant workers reduced
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
British rapper Nate sampling Hugh Masekela’s Stimela in his ‘Africa’ (for which he gets some help from Cyclonious, Dark Matter and Jalex). The video seems to have been recorded in a Gambian coastal town but I’m not...
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Hugh Masekela, the giant trumpet player (he had a Billboard no.1 hit in 1968. People forget that), has a new show, “Songs of Migration,” that just played in Johannesburg (a decent review of the show over...
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