mukwae wabei siyolwe

 

  One of my favorite things to do is discover and interview talented noteworthy personalities around the Black Planet over the years. On the cusp of a world tour, genre-bending South African artist Bongeziwe Mabandla sits down with Planet Afropop's Mukwae Wabei Siyolwe . Mabandla, a true maverick , draws on his country's rich musical history but forges his own path with his new album amaXesha (The Times) . Alongside his Mozambican producer, the innovative Tiago Correia-Paulo , Bongeziwe has crafted a unique sonic signature. Imagine deep, meditative textures woven with pulsating keyboards – a sound, as Siyolwe puts it, "you can dance to, pray to, cry to, and celebrate to." This episode doesn't just focus on Bongeziwe. We also get a glimpse into the legendary Graceland bassman, Bakithi Kumalo. Filmed at his home studio, Kumalo offers insights and a taste of his music.

   

Knowledge even under the banner of history does not depend on rediscovery and it emphatically excludes the rediscovery of us.  History becomes effective to the degree that it introduces discontinuity into our very being – as it divides our emotions, dramatizes our instincts, multiplies our body and sets it against itself…. this is because knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting [Foucault: 1984:88] 

mukwae wabei siyolwe, liberetto, director daniel bernard roumain, composer