#keleketla!

[millerscoffee]

ten songs + ten people

rules: put your music on shuffle and list the first ten songs that come up, then tag ten other people.

thanks for tagging me @cool-iguana! ♡

"black mountain side" led zeppelin

"you first" paramore

"missing u" robyn (BANGER)

"our house" joni mitchell, graham nash

"fuerza" kibi james

"super rat" honeyblood

"shepherd song" keleketla!

"i know you know i love you" sunset rollercoaster

"only in my dreams" the marías

"why" fleetwood mac

what a mix lmao

tagging: @darkroastjoel @citrusrei @eddiemunsonsbedroom @daddy-din @pedritoferg @pattwtf @javiscigarette @bearsbeetsbeskar @rav3n-pascal22 @mycandyduck

sorry for the influx of tag games, i was catching up! lol LOVE U

[midsjar]

Do not forget about West Papua.

Do not forget about the colonial genocide being committed against the indigenous West Papuans.

[votava-records]

Eparapo - Black Lives Matter (feat. Dele Sosimi)

Album: From London To Lagos (Remixes) [EP]

Wah Wah 45s are proud to present a new set of remixes, as well as originals released on vinyl for the very first time, from Afrobeat supergroupEparapo. Having come togetherduring the unprecedented events of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, and despite being a project born from the privations of lockdown, their music is ultimately an expression of hope, resilience & resurgence.

The word "eparapo" means "join forces" in Yoruba, the language of Afrobeat. It's also the title of a track by the late, greatTony Allen- drummer for Afrobeat legendFela Kutiand lifelong friend and mentor of our very own "Afrobeat Ambassador",Dele Sosimi. Not only did Tony help to invent Afrobeat, he always looked for ways to push the boundaries, never content with recreating what had gone before but constantly expanding and developing the genre. This project hopes to pay homage to his legacy, and that of Fela Kuti himself. Its aim is to innovate, fuse and diversify while still retaining the essence of the music.

The force behind Eparapo is bassist, composer & producerSuman Joshi.He has been a member of Dele Sosimi's Afrobeat Orchestra for nearly a decade and has performed on stage with the likes of Tony Allen, Seun Kuti, Ginger Baker & Laura Mvula. He is also bassist with UK jazz ensemble Collocutor and fusion project Cubafrobeat.

Featured vocalist on both original tracks, and remixes, is the aforementioned Dele Sosimi - keyboard player and musical director for Fela's Egypt 80 as well as Wah Wah 45s recording artist on both his solo material and the recent collaboration with house music producer, Medlar.

The rest of the group comprises of bandleader ofAfrik Bawantuand percussionist for Ibibio Sound Machine and Keleketla,Afla Sackey; highly rated UK jazz vocalistSahra Gure; saxophonist, composer, producer and bandleader of the renowned forward thinking jazz outfit Collocutor,Tamar Obsorn; keyboard player, producer and front man for Lokkhi Terra and Cubafrobeat,Kishon Khan; one of the UK's finest and most in demand trumpeters,Graeme Flowers, who has played with Quincy Jones, Gregory Porter and many more; trombonist for Bellowhead and mainstay of Dele's Afrobeat Orchestra,Justin Thurgur; and finally drummer for Steamdown and Sons of Kemet, as well as the man behind the Nache project,Eddie Wakili Hick.

From London To Lagoswas inspired by a talk given by writerRoberto Savianoat the Hay Book Festival in 2016, just before the Brexit referendum. In it he described the UK as the "most corrupt country in the world". This was a reminder of how the leaders of so-called developed countries, conveniently suffering from colonial amnesia, still point disparagingly at the rest of the world and talk of "endemic corruption" and "Banana Republics". All the while the ill-gotten gains of organised crime syndicates, corrupt multinationals and military juntas across the globe are funnelled through financial centres such as London. Same trouble, different methods, greater scale. Of course the best way to divert the population from all this is to find distractions such as populist leaders who declare their countries "world beating" and scapegoats such as refugees, immigrants and other members of the underclasses. It has always been thus but it doesn't always have to be so.

This track was once more recorded remotely during lockdown and features an all star lineup of world class musicians from the UK Afrobeat and jazz scenes. Members of the Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra, Keleketla, Sons of Kemet and beyond have come together to create this powerhouse of a band. They encapsulate the meaning of "eparapo" and "join forces'' to fight a common enemy in the shape of corrupt and divisive ideologies.

Black Lives Matterwas obviously inspired by the movement of the same name and was the first track to be released by Eparapo in late 2020. Dele's voice tell the story slave ships leaving West Africa in the fifteenth century, the brutal conditions that were experienced on board, and the continued suffering of the African diaspora today. As always, half of the artist's income for this song will be donated to the NAACP - a civil rights organisation in the United States, created for the advancement of black people by means of following judicial policies.

[icthyarch]

@infragalaxia left an open inv tag game and frankly I love 'em so - five songs I actually listen to (I will interpret 'actually' here to mean 'have actively sought out to listen to recently')

Let's Talk About Feelings - Joywave

Crystallize - Keleketla ft. Yugen Blakrok

Damn - The Great Machine

I Kill Everything - DeathByRomy

Glory - NYX

(honorable mention to gutter cruiser by Irving Force and the pump by muscle)

Tagging @kinghellcat , @jaegershund, @a-dream-seeking-light, @charnel-doll, @katwithakeyboard, @briny, (all to ur comfort ofc) (or if u just see this and would like to do it, open inv to just share stuff, it's the internet, it's a lawless wasteland do w/e)

[positivevibesuniverse]

Manifesting With Love

[lyssahumana]

[drdeejofficial]

https://youtu.be/CMpHlxEuO3U

Digging this right now.

[musikigai]

LP: Keleketla! - Keleketla!

African music meets Garage, Funk and Soul on the amazing international colaboration project from Ninja Tune: #Keleketla!

What happens when you combine Coldcut, the founders of the Ninja Tune record label (famous for Bonobo, Maribou State, Mr Scruff, Kamasi Washington, Floating Points and The Cinematic Orchestra among others) with a veritable cavalcade of South African musicians? Keleketla!

This remarkable collaboration involving countless artists (among whom I’ve only heard of Tony Allen and Coldcut themselves –…

[asphaltapostle]

This track has been in my head for far too long.

[thewickedsound]

The Wicked Sound Playlist July 2020/07/2 New Music Jazz Funk Soul Reggae Beats

The Wicked Sound July 2020/07/2 new playlist with new music across Jazz, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Electronic music and Hip Hop Beats. New music from Roos Jonker, Dean Tippet, Peacemaker Global Quartet, Fabiano Do Nascimento, Jerk, Mike Casey, Han Litz Group, Gerald Clayton, Jeremy Cunningham, Dustin Laurenzi, Bobby Watson, DJ Vadim, Maddy, add2, qwazaar, Wes Restless, Pugs Atomz, Kind & Kinky Zoo, Cliff Beach, Mestizo Beat, Redtenbacher's Funkestra, Tucker Antell, Keleketla!, Coldcut, Nono Nkoane, Thabang Tabane, Gally Ngoveni, Sibusile Xaba, Tamar Osborn, Tenderlonious, Dele Sosimi, Afla Sackey, Antibalas, Prince Fatty, Shniece McMenamin, Horseman, The Wailers, U-Roy, Doctor Dread You can listen to this playlist also on Spotify, Deezer, Soundcloud or YouTube. Read the full article

[daisukekaniebroadcast]

Papua Merdeka - Keleketla! & Coldcut

[punk-chicken-radio]

Smelly’s Song Of The Week.....

Keleketla! - International Love Affair

TOS 

[burlveneer-music]

Keleketla! - s/t LP - South African musicians collaborate with Coldcut, Tony Allen, and a slew of guest artists

Keleketla! is an expansive collaborative project, reaching outward from Johannesburg to London, Lagos, L.A. and West Papua, “Keleketla!” started as a musical meeting ground between Ninja Tune cofounders Coldcut and a cadre of South African musicians (introduced by the charity In Place Of War), including the raw, South African-accented jazz styles of Sibusile Xaba, and rapper Yugen Blakrok (Black Panther OST). From those initial sessions, the record grew to encompass a wider web of musical luminaries, including Afrobeat architects, the late pioneer Tony Allen and Dele Sosimi, legendary L.A. spoken word pioneers The Watts Prophets, and West Papuan activist Benny Wenda. The album collaborators are as follows: South Africa sessions: Yugen Blakrok, Nono Nkoane, Thabang Tabane, Tubatsi Moloi, Gally Ngoveni, Sibusile Xaba, Soundz of the South Collective, DJ Mabheko London sessions: Tony Allen, Shabaka Hutchings, Dele Sosimi, Ed ‘Tenderlonious’ Cawthorne, Tamar Osborn, Miles James, Joe Armon-Jones, Afla Sackey, Benny Wenda, The Lani Singers, Eska Mtungwazi, Jungle Drummer, DeeJay Random Additionally, The Watts Prophets (Los Angeles) and Antibalas (New York) have contributed to the album. The final product is a future-facing assemblage of influences, drawing connections between different points in a jazz-tipped, soulfully-minded spectrum; it builds outwards, from the solid musical foundations of those first sessions, featuring the likes of Thabang Tabane, esteemed percussionist and son of the legendary Phillip Tabane. On the one hand, there are gqom beats, interlaced with activist chants and and Tony Allen’s live Afrobeat drums; on the other, there are warm, lyrical meditations, aided by horns and keys. The name “Keleketla” means “response”, as in “call-and-response”, a title which speaks to the project’s aim: to build out a shared musical ground, traced across different recording sessions, continents apart.

[positivevibesuniverse]

Strange Love

[thousandisthemaximum]

Un po' di album da bere nel weekend

https://www.dlso.it/site/2020/07/03/album-3-luglio-2020/

[kadromatt]

A memorial within a memorial, “Public Hearing”

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established to, amongst other goals, facilitate the ‘rehabilitation and the restoration of the human and civil dignity of victims of violations of human rights’. At the time, the TRC was the first restorative justice process of its kind to conduct public hearings and provide space for survivors to tell their stories in their own words. The formal hearings began on 15 April 1996 and the hearings made international news and many sessions were broadcast on national television.

The public face of the TRC – were the stories told of the everyday violence of the apartheid system; the experiences of forced removals, systematic discrimination, forced labour, targeted impoverishment and the institutional and psychological violence that was integral to the apartheid system were not given attention but physical violence was regarded as the most important type of violation. This in turn has obscured the full impact of the injuries experienced in a broader context of lifelong oppression in which these individual violations occurred.  

The work of the TRC was accomplished through three committees: Human Rights Violations Committee that investigated human rights abuses that took place between 1960 and 1994. Amnesty Committee was empowered to grant amnesty to those charged with atrocities during Apartheid and the Reparations and Rehabilitation Committee was charged with restoring victims' dignity and formulating proposals to assist with rehabilitation. The Amnesty Committee, however, had legal powers of enforcement, the Reparations and Rehabilitation Committee (RCC) could only recommend a reparations program to government with no authority to ensure its implementation.

“Public Hearing” at the Drill Hall departs from this narrative of history while in another stream of thought be in conversation with the Reparations and Rehabilitation Committee and the larger aspect of the TRC. Recognising that the hearing is the first of any kind at the Drill Hall related to the context of the site. “Public Hearing” takes place on the 14th April the day before the formal TRC hearings that began 15 April 1996 so as to nod to the binary that connects the two.

Joubert Park Project/Keleketla! Library’s work at the Drill Hall from 2004 to 2014 can be viewed as merely a recommendation of processes to the City of Johannesburg on how we see the methodology of engagement with the mandate of the site (in art, culture, heritage and education) in conversation with the ‘complex’ neighborhood. But like the RRC without the authority to implement its reparation programme, JPP/Keleketla! had no authority to legitimize its programming and its direct development at the site because of the infamously unattainable lease amongst other structural issues. “Public Hearing” is also an attempt to highlight the much needed restorative process to the Drill Hall to help animate the site from its current sad state. The hearing will be broadcasted online across social platforms to reach our local, regional, continental and global constituency beyond the physical hearing at the Drill Hall.  

A memorial within a memorial, “Public Hearing” is a performance of memory against erasure, but a performance of accountability, in which people (rather than property itself) are implicated in issues having to do with land, rent and the asymmetry in how culture is produced, consumed and memorialised in a country such as South Africa.

“Public Hearing” formed part of Malose Malahlela’s contribution to The Centre for the Less Good Idea Season 3, itself part of Keleketla!’s 10 year reflection, embedded within that process is the need to create transparency and highlight the narrative around the Drill Hall issue in relation to Keleketla!’s exile from the site.

The Drill Hall is a large historical infrastructure that occupies an entire city block in Joubert Park, Johannesburg. It is located in the dynamic transport hub, lending itself to a wide range of activity and accessibility. The site was built in 1904 as a military base for the conscription of World War One and Two soldiers. It is widely known for the 1956 Treason Trial of South Africa, in which 156 leaders under the auspices of the Congress of the People were arrested for trial.