Projects
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The Cape Town Goema Orchestra and the birth of a new vision for South African music.
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Mama Goema, a documentary exploring Cape Town's most representative musical genre.
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Mama Goema :: Sound on Screen Music Film Festival 2011
Sound on Screen Music Film Festival (SOS) Cape Town | Labia on Orange | December 2011 MAMA GOEMA SCREENINGS: Labia Theatre, 68 Orange Street, Gardens – Sunday 4 December 2011 @ 16.00 * – Thursday 8 December 2011 @ 16.00 … Continue reading
Cape Town Goema Orchestra :: Table Bay Concerto Première
“This showcase of Cape music will do Capetonians proud,” says composer Mac McKenzie. “The Table Bay Concerto in G-Major is a chronological account of Table Bay as I imagine it, my impression of its evolution from the time just before … Continue reading
Mama Goema :: Tri Continental Film Festival 2011
“A journey to the heart of the Mother City and a beat called goema. With indigenous roots, colonial influences and shaped by Cape Town’s slave history, goema’s blueprint lies in the city’s carnival culture. It is from these traditional festivities … Continue reading
Mama Goema :: SA Première | Encounters Film Festival 2011
“If you take a pinch of Khoi-San lament, a dash of Malay spice, a measure of European orchestral, a splash of Xhosa spiritual, the clash of marching bands, the pizzazz of the Klopse, a driving primal beat and a lot … Continue reading
Jou Ma Se Goema | Mama Goema :: Film Teaser
A MUSICAL JOURNEY THROUGH THE CAPE Cape Town came about as a result of its location and the subsequent historic forces that were visited upon it. What emerged is a city with cultural and linguistic characteristics drawn from the disparate … Continue reading
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Cape Town Goema Orchestra :: Saturday 28 August 2010
FROM PUNK THROUGH PENTHOUSE TO THE UNIVERSITY Mac McKenzie has always pushed the boundaries of Goema, the rhythmic groove at the heart of Cape Town’s carnival culture. During the 80s, he injected defiance into the idiom with The Geniunes, creating … Continue reading
Taxijam :: Jack Parow
Some refer to him as the Bob Dylan of the northern suburbs but to those who share a taxi with him on the way to work, he’s just the sweaty guy in the brown vest. Jack Parow is a resident … Continue reading
All In One :: Self-Titled LP Launch
It’s a balmy evening in Cape Town and a crowd is dribbling into formation on Loop Street; early arrivers staking claims to the scattered tables of Alliance Française (while its humble kitchen dispatches slivers of quiche to those in the … Continue reading
Taxijam :: Simon van Gend
If you think patting your head and rubbing your belly at the same time is a piece of cake, there’s a hip Cape Town folkster serving a slice of humble pie called “Blinking and Breathing and Crying.” Simon van Gend … Continue reading
Future Shorts :: South African Launch
Cape Town’s Alliance Française hosted the inaugural gathering of Future Shorts South Africa last month. The UK-based short film label was established in 2003 in the interests of celebrating the form and raising its status. Future Shorts operates in over … Continue reading