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Contents
editorial
NEVILLE DUBE
“What shall we do with the tools?”
PALESA MOTSUMI & TARIRO MUDZAMIRI
The Impact of Covid-19 on the Arts in South Africa
Theme Africa Synthesized
CARINA VENTER & STEPHANIE VOS
Africa Synthesized: Editorial Note
GEORGE E. LEWIS
Recharging Unyazi 2005
MICHAEL KHOURY
A Look at Lightning – The Life and Compositions of Halim el-Dabh
KAMILA METWALY
A Sonic letter to Halim El-Dabh
SHANE COOPER
Tape Collage
ADAM HARPER
Shane Cooper’s Tape Collage – a living archive
HANS ROOSENSCHOON
Tape loops: Cataclysm (1980)
STEPHANUS MULLER
Hans Roosenschoon's Cataclysm: message in a bubble or mere spectacular flotsam?
SAZI DLAMINI
Composing with Jurgen Brauninger: 1989-2019
LIZABÉ LAMBRECHTS
The Woodstock Sound System and South African sound reinforcement
CATHY LANE
Synthesizer and portastudio: their roles in the Tigrayan People’s Liberation struggle - an audio essay.
MICHAEL BHATCH
Africa Synthesized: A Sonic Essay
NEO MUYANGA
Afrotechnolomagic before the internet came to town – How electrons made Africans in music zing
NIKLAS ZIMMER
Interspeller (some B-sides)
WARRICK SWINNEY
House on Fire: Sankomota and the art of abstraction
MAËL PÉNEAU
Beatmaking in Dakar: The Shaping of a West-African Hip-hop Sound
ARAGORN ELOFF
Materials of Relation: A Sonic Pedagogy of Non-Mastery
BRIAN BAMANYA
Afrorack
ZARA JULIUS
(Whose) Vinyl in (Which) Africa? A Zoom Fiasco
galleri
SLOVO MAMPHAGA
Mandela is Dead
&and
Undercommons
HUGH MDLALOSE
Jazz Speaking
IBUKUN SUNDAY
A Peaceful City
NIKKI SHETH
Mmabolela
PIERRE-HENRI WICOMB
A Composition Machine
SONO-CHOREOGRAPHIC COLLECTIVE
Playing Grounds: a polymodal essay
STELARC & MAURIZIO LAZZARATO
Parasite: A Government of Signs
JURGEN MEEKEL
The Bauhaus Loops
borborygmus
KING SV & MARCO LONGARI
The Black Condition
SIPHELELE MAMBA
Enough is enough
SEGOMOTSO PALESA MOTSUMI
Explaining racism
KHANYISILE MBONGWA
Mombathiseni UnoDolly Wam
PHIWOKAZI QOZA
Choreographies of Protest Performance: 1. The Transgression of Space
TSEPO WA MAMATU
The Colonising Laughter in Leon Schuster’s Mr. Bones and Sweet ’n Short
ANA DEUMERT
On racism and how to read Hannah Arendt
TALLA NIANG
Sembène Ousmane
MAVAMBO CHAZUNGUZA
Sacred Sonic Cosmos
GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN
The Saharan WhatsApp Series - an Experiment in Immediacy
BEN EYES
Cross-cultural collaboration in African Electronica
STEVEN CRAIG HICKMAN
The Listening of Horror
MICHAEL C COLDWELL
The Noise made by Ghosts
GABRIEL GERMAINE DE LARCH
I will not be erased
frictions
JESÚS SEPÚLVEDA
Viaje a Tánatos
KATYA GANESHI
From Beyond the World of Dead Sirens
RIAAN OPPELT
(Ultra) Lockdown
SINDISWA BUSUKU
Let’s Talk Kaffir
JOHAN VAN WYK
Man Bitch
MAAKOMELE R. MANAKA
Four Indigenous Poems
claque
KOLEKA PUTUMA
Language & Storytelling: On Zöe Modiga’s Inganekwane
LINDELWA DALAMBA
After the Aftermath: Recovery?
ATHI MONGEZELELI JOJA
Uninterrogated Phallophilia
HILDE ROOS
Sicula iOpera – a raised fist?
PAUL ZISIWE
19 Feedbacks
TSELISO MONAHENG
How to build a Scene
WAMUWI MBAO
Struggle Sounds
MKHULU MAPHIKISA
Short but not sweet: Skeptical Erections and the Black Condition
MBALI KGAME
Tales from The UnderWorld
ekaya
STEPHANIE VOS
The Exhibition of Vandalizim – Improvising Healing, Politics and Film in South Africa
MARIETJIE PAUW, GARTH ERASMUS & FRANCOIS BLOM
Improvising Khoi’npsalms
off the record
KHADIJA TRACEY HEEGER
Lewis Nkosi – treasured memory
LEWIS NKOSI
Jazz in Exile
EUGENE SKEEF
Chant of Divination for Steve Biko
BRENDA SISANE
How I fell in love with music
SAM MATHE
Skylarks
THOKOZANI MHLAMBI
Early Sound Recordings in Africa: Challenges for Future Scholarship
MARIO PISSARRA
Everywhere but nowhere: reflections on DV8 magazine
DEREK DAVEY
Live Jimi Presley 1990-1995
HERMAN LATEGAN
Pentimento
ARGITEKBEKKE
AFRIKAAPS compIete script deel 3
feedback
PHILLIPPA YAA DE VILLIERS
An urgency to action
PABLO VAN WETTEN
Sort of a ramble
the selektah
PONE MASHIANGWAKO
Artists' Prayer - A Tribute to Motlhabane Mashiangwako
hotlynx
shopping
SHOPPING
Purchase or listen
contributors
the back page
MICHAEL TAUSSIG
Unpacking My Library: An Experiment in the Technique of Awakening
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MAVAMBO CHAZUNGUZA

Sacred Sonic Cosmos

VAKURU VACHIREVA

As said by the elders

CHORUS

KANA VAKURU VACHIREVA IMI VECHIDIKI MOTERA KANA PASIRIKAREVAA

When the elders and ancestors speak, the youth must pay attention

HAVAREVE HONDO YEMAPFUMO, HAVAREVE HONDO YEMAGIDI, KANA HONDO YEMAKANO

They do not speak of gun wars nor bow and spear wars

(HONDO HIYA HONDO)

(Fatal problems are imminent)

VERSE 1

KURASA HUNHU HONDOO

The loss of cultural values and sensibilities causes fatal problems

TSIKA NEMAGARIRO HONDO

The loss of traditions and customs causes fatal problems

KURASA WEROPA HONDOO

Abandoning one of your own results in fatal problems

(HONDO HIYA HONDO)

Fatal problems are imminent

HONA KURASA HUNHU HONDO

Look at the problems caused by the loss of cultural values and sensibilities

TSIKA NEMAGARIRO HONDO

The loss of traditions and customs causes fatal problems

KUSAZIVA KWAWAKABVA HONDOO

Not knowing your origins and identity causes serious problems

 (HONDO HIYA HONDO)

Fatal problems are imminent

CHORUS

VERSE 2

HONA UNGAZVITI WAFUNDA

You may think that you are learned

HONA UNGAZVITI UNOZIVA                     *2

You may think that you are educated

HONA OTOZVIITA MAKOYA

You may think that you are unconquerable (Real McCoy, the genuine one)

APA HAUZIVE KWAWABVA                         (MUCHADENGA)

Yet you don’t know your identity       (from above)

SAKA (CHORUS)

“so”

VERSE 3

NZOMBE HURU YAKABVAA MUKURERWA MWANANGU

Great people are raised by other people my child

KUZIVA MBUYAA HUDZWAA                                                        *4

All the knowledge that you have is from other people

MUZIVI WENZIRA YEPARUWARE NDIYE MUFAMBI WAYO    *4

In-depth knowledge is an indication of long term involvement or experience

CHORUS

MALIK NTONE EDJABE 1

ZVICHAPERA

All this shall come to an end

CHORUS

ZVICHAPERA HONA ZVICHAPERA ENDE ZVICHAPERA

All this shall come to an end

ZVINOPERA HONA ZVINOPERA ENDE ZVINOPERA

All this shall come to an end

VERSE 1

NEIKO ZVAKATANGA SEIKO

How did this come about?

SEIKO ZVAKATANGA NANIKO
HOIYE HIYA HOIYE HIYA

why why why
Who started this?

NEIKO VAKATANGA VASIPO

Why are the elders not here?

SEIKO VAIZVIGONA VAPERA

How come all those who could solve this have died?

VERSE 2

TARIRAI ZVIRWERE ZVABATA VANA AVAA

Now children have been infected by diseases

RUVENGO RWEMARUDZI KUGANDA DEMAA

Racism against black people

ROPA RANYANYA KUDEUKA MUNYIKA DZEDU UMU

Too many bloody wars in our countries

SIMBA REUDZVANYIRIRI RARAMBA KUPERA KAA

Oppression continues

TARIRAI NZARA YARAMBA KUPERA KAA

Poverty continues

NEKUTI MVURA YARAMBAA KUNAYAA KAA

Because of drought

VANA DZIMBA DZARAMBA KUMIRA KAAA

Marriages are breaking down

MBEREKO INGORI MHERE IMO MUDZIMBA UMU

Infertility is also rife in marriages

MAKUNA KUNA YAVATOVA RARAMO KAAA

Incest is now very common

HANZI MURUME ACHATA MURUME

A wedding is a sign of proper manhood

KANA MUKADZI OCHATA MUKADZI KAAA

A wedding is a sign of proper womanhood

VERSE 3

NGATIMBOPIRAI KUVADZIMU VEDU KAAA

Let us appease our ancestors

TITI VATIRINGIRE RARAMOO

To ask for guidance from them

VAKURU VEDU VAIFAMBA SEIKO

These were the ways of our elders

MAPIRA EMVURA AYA ATAKASIYA

The rain making ceremonies that we abandoned

MAPIRA EMWAKA AYAA ATAKASIYAA

The new season ceremonies that we abandoned

MAKUVA AYA ATISACHAROVA

We abandoned ceremonies for welcoming back the wandering spirit of the dead back to the family

MAKARE DZIMBA DZAI KUMBIRIRWA

In the olden days marriages were blessed by the ancestors

MBEREKO VAKURU VAIWUCHIKA

Our elders used to restore fertility

MAKWENZI MUSHONGA WOTOTI HUROYI

Our traditional medicine is dismissed as witchcraft these days

MAHON’ERAAAA

Under your breath traditional singing

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