Back in the homeland (South Africa specifically), watch out for the Pan African Space Station, “… a 30-day music intervention from September 12 – October 12, on radio and the internet, as well as venues across greater Cape Town.”
It’s curated by DJ Ntone publisher and editor of Chimurenga Magazine and Neo Muyanga (one of the people behind BLK Sonshine).
“Participating artists include: the Lagos-Accra based Afrobeat fanfare Ayetoro; famed drummer Cindy Blackman and her quartet (New York); Trinidadian jazz-poet Anthony Joseph and his Spasm band; Electronica-jazz group Bibi Tanga and Professeur Inlassable (Bangui/Paris); Kinshasa’s underground poet laureate Bebson de la rue and his band Tryonix; Carlo Mombelli and his freestyle chamber jazz ensemble Prisoners of Strange (Jhb), Joburg’s art-rockers Blk Jks, Afrofuturist bluesman Madala Kunene (Durban), two Cape Town based collaborative projects, namely Goematronics and the all-female electro project Science Feline and from Joburg, Deejay blaq T as well as R.U.I.’s Dub Vaults by Rui Sorero and Paulo Chibanga”
Full information here.
