Represent is Loving: Mark Ronson – Valerie
Rumour has it that Amy Winehouse didn’t show up for the video shoot, so they got inventive and pulled in a whole bunch of lookalikes to mime along to Mark Ronson’s remake of Valerie featuring the MC “Wale” from DC. Labelled the “Winettes”, the ladies sang along to the original Zuton song and gave the video an authentic 60’s rock n roll feel. Or the rumours could be a whole load of tabloid junk – as professed by the RodRyan show blog and Mark knew Amy (the star of the song) would be away on holiday (we think she needs one). Who knows, but we’re loving the song and the video from visionary producer – or should that be retro-visionary – and man of the moment Mark Ronson. Enjoy....
NewMusic Indaba 2007 @ UNISA 10-13 Oct
Composers, music fundi’s and junkies, get to the NewMusic Indaba 2007 at Unisa’s musicology department from the 10th – 13th October 2007 in Tshwane: NewMusicSA (South African Section of the ISCM) proudly announces its forthcoming New Music Indaba festival. The New Music Indaba has relocated from Grahamstown (in the winter) to Tshwane (in the spring) and the 8th edition of this experimental and innovative festival will take place from 10-13 October 2007 at the University of South Africa (Sunnyside Campus) and the University of Pretoria’s Musaion. The New Music Indaba will consist of four days of masterclasses and workshops for composers, with international artists in residence The Schubert Ensemble of London and South African pianist Jill Richards, and guest composer Stefans Grové. Plus concerts of new works and improvisation, installations and videos, and a mini-conference on composition. Day 1 Wednesday 10 October FORUM: SOUTH AFRICA’S INSTRUMENTAL VOICES 10h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 2 hrs 30 mins Chair: Chris Walton (University of Pretoria) OPENING OF AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION 14h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 45 mins Aryan Kaganof & Michael Blake Reverie (2003) World Première Gerhard Marx & Clare Loveday The Collision Project (2006) COMPOSERS WORKSHOP 1 15h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 2 hrs OPENING CONCERT: SONGS OF AFRICA 18h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 1 hr Max de Vries marimba Peter Klatzow Song for Stephanie Martin Scherzinger Chorale: Afrika South African Première Day 2 Thursday 11 October COMPOSERS MASTERCLASS 1 10h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 2 hrs 30 mins Schubert Ensemble COMPOSERS WORKSHOP 2 15h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 2 hrs Day 3 Friday 12 October COMPOSERS MASTERCLASS 2 10h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 2 hrs 30 mins Schubert Ensemble PIANO RECITAL: STEFANS GROVÉ 85TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 13h00 | Musaion, University of Pretoria | 1 hr Jill Richards piano Stefans Grové Five Glimpses Robert Fokkens New Work South African Première COMPOSERS MASTERCLASS 3 14h30 | Musaion, University of Pretoria | 2 hrs 30 mins Jill Richards and Stefans Grové SOUNDPAINTING 18h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 1 hr Ensemble directed by Marc Duby Day 4 Saturday 13 October OPEN REHEARSALS 10h00 | Sunnyside Concert Hall, Unisa | 2 hrs Schubert Ensemble and Selected Composers CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL 13h00 | Sunnyside Concert Hall, Unisa | 1 hr Schubert Ensemble Programme includes works by participants in the Composers Masterclasses World Première COMPOSERS WORKSHOP 3 15h00 | AHVAM (Seminar Room) | 2 hrs PLEASE NOTE: EVENT: OPENING OF NEWMUSIC INDABA AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION VENUE: ART HISTORY, VISUAL ARTS AND MUSICOLOGY DEPT, UNISA DATES: 10 OCTOBER 2007, 14h00 ENQUIRIES: CAMERON HARRIS 076 529 4601 This year’s NewMusic Indaba includes an audiovisual installation...
Mkonto sessions presents the Bantu Biko show
We’re a little busy at the mo so please excuse our lack of constant flowing content like you love it but we promise to be back and at it in Oct. So for now, we’re just gonna tell it like it is – click on flyers for more info: Mkonto Sessions presents the Bantu Biko show at Horror Cafe (Newton) 28th September 2007 Admission: R50 DJ C- LIVE FIFI DJ BIONIC Herby Dangerous LEVI PON THE MIC RANTOBOKO CUBA DJ Funtime and...
A night out in Jozi– Dinner, Show & a Shooting
“It’s not even Christmas yet” my friend said to me, as we listen to more bad news… Now you know Editorista resists all negative submissions, especially whingers who send in complaints about crime etc. This story was written by Heather as a dedication to a mutual friend Justin Brown, who was horrifically murdered a few weeks ago defending his family – I publish this story because it’s a documentation of the crazy goldrush wild west we find ourselves living in in Jozi, these are the days of our lives: O.K. so first I have to admit I went to see Air Supply. I didn’t tell a soul about it, I mean how naff right? But my man and I are soppy romantics at heart and remember listing to “All out of Love” and “Making Love out of Nothing at All” in our pre-teens (yes that long ago – it is their 30th anniversary of being Air Supply, afterall). This being a child-free weekend for me (the little man safely off with his dad), we decided to make an evening of it. My auditor love has not gambled before (using real money as opposed to a roulette boardgame!) so I was determined to introduce him to the thrill of the game. It has been awhile since I’ve been to see an international act since I always get a bit freaked out by large crowds, but braved it anyway. The opening act was Alter and Irving – Cindy Alter from Clout and Stewart Irving from Ballyhoo. They were great, playing classics from their respective band’s hey days including “Substitute” and “Superstar”. I knew we were old when we remembered the words and could sing along! Cindy and Stewart also did a fab version of Patti Smythe’s “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough”. When Air Supply arrived on stage, after a sparkling intro by MC, the Springs Boy – Tom London, I gasped as I saw how they had aged. I had seen the posters and seen some pics from the interviews, but somehow on stage, it seemed a little strange. I wondered how time had affected their voices….. And then they started to sing…. time has not affected their voices. All the memories came flooding back and I got all soft and marshmallowy inside as they took us back to classics like Lost in Love, Here I am and Two Less Lonely People. Their connection with the audience was fantastic– especially those of the middle-aged, female variety! But what I thought was amazing was the fact that they actually came down and walked through the audience- shaking hands, kissing and hugging audience members. It built up a most...
SA doccie on show in the Big Apple
Editorista remembers seeing Zim Ngqawana playing jazz in the Netherlands at a festival, it was a moment of such pride tempered with intense home sickness for home sweet Africa as Zim’s music washed over the room, captivating the audience. Any African’s or anyone interested in African Jazz and our stories in general in and around New York City, catch Zim live as he sets the tone for the SA jazz doccie entitled “Unyazi of the Bushveld” that’s showing at the “Columbia Harlem Festival of Global Jazz Documentary Film” festival: African Noise Foundation is proud to announce the selection of a South African documentary production for screening in the prestigious Columbia University Columbia Harlem Festival of Global Jazz Documentary Film. The 29 september screening will be preceded by a concert of the Zim Ngqawana Quartet on 28 september. “Unyazi of the Bushveld” (2007). Aryan Kaganof, director (South Africa). 45 min. The Zulu word “unyazi” can be translated into English as “lightning,” an apposite double image of rupture and new beginnings for UNYAZI 2005, Africa’s first festival of electronic music, the brainchild of new music composer Dimitri Voudouris. Aryan Kaganof’s documentary on this singular historical event is suitably non-linear in structure, as it explores the complex relationship, both assumed and actual, among technology, the African and Afrodiasporic worlds, and the multiculturalism that mediates them. We are presented with a vision freed from the romantically anti-technological stances of the early Nègritude movement (and that of 1960s American black cultural nationalisms), and the concomitant assumptions that nothing of a technological nature can emerge from a black-ruled world. But we are never far from South Africa’s recent history. Until this festival, jazz drummer Louis Moholo, exiled since the early 1960s, had never been on the campus of Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand–or rather, as he commented drily, “We came, but they chased us off with dogs. That was...
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