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Notes on the Music by Ari Sitas

Chimurenga is about to publish my reflections on music. It is being called Music Notebook and I am thrilled that Ntone Edjabe has taken...

Sazi Dlamini - Composing with Jurgen Brauninger:1989-2019

"I first heard his name mentioned in 1986 when I started to play guitar in a band that included erstwhile students at the University of...

Transgressions: Review

By Aditi Hunma “Are we doing it right, this work of being human?” “This is a question that resounded like a leitmotif throughout the...

Transgressions (2019)

For the ensemble’s fifth incarnation, it was still a defiant one. It is still possible to have an international of the imagination. It is...

Threads of Sorrow (2018)

After The Storming came Threads of Sorrow, reflecting the confluence of different media and transcontinental conversations about a common...

The Storming (2015)

Then came The Storming, in September 2015, and a book/cd published in 2017. Ari Sitas described it as being about ‘the unresolved...

Mayihlome/Aahwaan (2014)

Mayihlome/Aahwaan followed in 2014, with two performances at the Homecoming Centre of District Six. (the CD was put out in 2015). Again,...

Insurrections (2012)

In October 2012, the Insurrections Ensemble gathered for two remarkable performances at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, directed by Neo...