An army of artists and volunteers will alter Cape Town right into a wonderland of sound and song once the Pan African Space Station music celebration hits a range of the city’s stages from September to October. Sites include St. George’s Cathedral in Wale Street, Centre to make the Book in Queen Victoria Street, along with Guga S’Thebe, in the Langa township.
Introduced by Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga with the Africa Centre, the Pan African Space Station is really a cutting edge multi-genre music festival featuring an accumulation of music from Africa and also other African-inspired music from abroad. The Africa Centre’s objective will be to celebrate both the visual and gratifaction heritages of Africa through art and debate. Now in its third year, the PASS festival is going to be updated regularly online at http://www.panafricanspacestation.org.za. Here listeners can access interview clips, tune in to live jam sessions, guest DJ mixes, collaborations plus more. My Cape Town apartment is likely to be filled with people, even so the setting on the event necessitates it.
The event boasts completely new expertise with a blend of established performers while offering combining types, striking a balance somewhere between traditional and contemporary sounds, and blends of all things in-between. Among the known artists who will feature from the festival are Kabako’s More More Future Band, a grouping of artists inside the DRC and France whose music can be defined as “afro-futurist punk opera”.
South African guitarist Philip Tabane, who mixes southern Africa’s deepest and oldest polyrhythmic ways of life with free jazz-based improv, American hip-hop artist Georgia Anne Muldrow and Brice Wassy from West Africa will even be in performance. Electro soul musician Johnny Cradle, former Bongo Maffin lead vocalist Thandiswa Mazwai and popular kwaito DJ Mbuso complete the South African line-up.
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