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01. SIBUSILE XABA - Bearer Of Seed
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02. SIBUSILE XABA - I Wrote It For Ziare
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03. SIBUSILE XABA - Empress Lea
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04. SIBUSILE XABA - Internet Dance
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05. SIBUSILE XABA - Inkululeko
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06. SIBUSILE XABA - Sibongile : Tribute To The Mother
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01. SIBUSILE XABA - Open Letter To Adoniah
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02. SIBUSILE XABA - Wampona
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03. SIBUSILE XABA - Emazulwini
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04. SIBUSILE XABA - Sibongile : Tribute To The Mother (Reprise)
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05. SIBUSILE XABA - Nomaphupho
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06. SIBUSILE XABA - Angisenalutho
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07. SIBUSILE XABA - Nyanda Yeni (Interlude)
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08. SIBUSILE XABA - Swaziland
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09. SIBUSILE XABA - Liyabukwa
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10. SIBUSILE XABA - Inkululeko (Reprise)
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ARTIST
XABA, SIBUSILE
TITLE
Unlearning / Open Letter To Adoniah
FORMAT
2CD
LABEL
MUSHROOM HOUR HALF HOUR
CATALOG #
M3HART 001-2CD
M3HART 001-2CD
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
8/25/2017
The independent, South African record label Mushroom Hour Half Hour present
Open Letter To Adoniah
, a moving album by talented guitarist and songwriter
Sibusile Xaba
, who improvises the musical legacy of KwaZulu-Natal into an exciting, genreless future. A lynchpin in South Africa's new generation of jazz musicians, KwaZulu-Natal born guitarist and vocalist Sibusile Xaba has all the makings of an acoustic guitar master. With a vocal style that is part dreamscaping and part ancestral invocation, Xaba divines as opposed to plainly singing. Combined with a guitar style that is rooted in expressive picking, Xaba's music shatters the confines of genre, taking only the fundamentals from mentors such as
Madala Kunene
and
Dr. Philip Tabane
and imbuing these with a mythology and improvisational intensity all of his own.
Open Letter to Adoniah
is an album reverent of life and its connectedness to a higher source. The music emanates from dreams revealed to guitarist Sibusile Xaba over consecutive days. With percussionists
Thabang Tabane
and
Moahanganai Magagula
, the trio coalesces both geographic and spiritual influences, hinting at Maskandi (a music style dominant in Xaba's native KwaZulu-Natal) and the improvisational culture of South Africa's jazz avant-garde. Collectively, the musicians remold these influences, situating them within rhythms that span the continent. Thabang Tabane's influence over the project gives it a spiritual sensibility allusive to
Malombo
which his father Dr. Philip Tabane originated in the late 1960s. Mushroom Hour Half Hour is a Johannesburg based, independent record label and a mobile recording studio that unearths and records unique music from the African continent. Xaba's debut project is Mushroom Hour's first international release. Produced by Thabang Tabane. Double CD version includes the album
Unlearning
as disc one.
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