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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Author Archives: Calum
Ernestine & The Vision
Ernestine Deane’s multi-faceted artistic trajectory has seen her fronting the electro combo MoodPhase5, a group that propelled Cape Town sound into the “naughties” with the millenium masterpiece Steady On (2000). A softer solo release, Dub for Mama, appeared in 2007 … Continue reading
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Tagged brian de goede, ernestine & the vision, ernestine deane, texito langa
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Mama Goema :: Cape Winelands Film Festival 2012
Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF) Cape Town & Stellenbosch | March 2012 MAMA GOEMA SCREENINGS: Oude Libertas Auditorium, Stellenbosch – Saturday 17 March 2012 @ 17.45 * Artscape, Cape Town – Monday 19 March 2012 @ 10.15 * * Mama … Continue reading
Mama Goema :: DocLove Screening at Greatmore Studios
Greatmore Studios and DocLove have joined forces to host monthly film screenings and discussions with filmmakers. Short films and full features, documentary and fiction, from and about Africa and beyond! Mama Goema helped launch the project on the evening of … Continue reading
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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Tagged boeta-g, denver turner, derek gripper, dubmasta china, ek het 'n bra, ernestine deane, happy boys, hilton schilder, iain harris, klopse, kyle shepherd, lee thomson, mac mckenzie, mama goema, mr. cat & the jackal, mr. mac & the genuines, mzoli's, neo muyanga, rudimentals, shane cooper, umthwakazi band
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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