Africa Is a Country

Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition, N°3

Music Break. Friday Bonus Edition, N°3

By
Tom Devriendt

tUnE-yArDs cite Barrington Levy, Odetta, Woody Guthrie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Charlie Chaplin, Ruth Garbus, Bertolt Brecht, Björk, Todd Rundgren, Fela Kuti and “you” as their influences. Here they perform live at a public radio station in New York City:


Tanya Auclair (from West London, “via Canada and Rwanda” – citing influences Bongo Joe Coleman, Juana Molina, The Staple Singers, Laurie Anderson, Matthew Herbert and E.S.G) sings and plays ‘Origami’:

Trust Shabazz Palaces and Kahlil Joseph to do it again:

Oskido and his production team (behind much of the staple kwaito videos over the last year) do something different with Nokwazi (or maybe not that different — not citing Cleo):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuaPA_UsGN0

While we’re in South Africa, I’m feeling this guitar band from Cape Town: MacGyver Knife. (There aren’t that many corners in Woodstock left where they haven’t shot a music video, sprayed a graffiti or did a photo shoot):

And to end, the new School is Cool video comes a year early:

H/T: Michael Vazquez.

Further Reading

No one should be surprised we exist

The documentary film, ‘Rolé—Histórias dos Rolezinhos’ by Afro-Brazilian filmmaker Vladimir Seixas uses sharp commentary to expose social, political, and cultural inequalities within Brazilian society.

Kenya’s stalemate

A fundamental contest between two orders is taking place in Kenya. Will its progressives seize the moment to catalyze a vision for social, economic, and political change?

More than a building

The film ‘No Place But Here’ uses VR or 360 media to immerse a viewer inside a housing occupation in Cape Town. In the process, it wants to challenge gentrification and the capitalist logic of home ownership.