![]() ![]() The band played a set list right out of my dreams. ![]() I had to recline in my seat and take in the music. It was like a show tailored just for me. With spryly conscious rhymes and velvet lyricism, he was always going to be a crowd pleaser. The Alexander auditorium was happily full on the night. First up was Bongeziwe Mabandla, an up and comer, who dazzled with nothing besides a voice and a guitar, sincerely setting the tone for the show. After him was Two-parts Black who have rapturously diverting harmonies, then Tumi Molekane, poet turned MC, joined in. Their first eponymous release came out in 1998. After ten-years, during which the duo split apart, one to the States, the other to Slaapstad, they released their second album, Good Life. They blend soulful melodies and percussive flurries over an acoustic flow evoking hip hop, jazz and folk among other traditional African influences. And by night the new middle class colonizes the streets: visible, boisterous and good-natured they trek here for sounds like no other.īlk Sonshine is Masauko Chipembere and Neo Muyanga. Right in the heart of Braamfontein’s student district, by day the place bustles with workers and thousands of locals who live in the surrounding high rises. Blk Sonshine at the Alexander Theatre somehow manage to transcend the venue’s rich ambience. ![]()
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