Expression

BAM! Night with Capital Arts Revolution and Art Kitchen

This was on a Friday on the 23rd of March at an all-access, free music gig in the “Cap City”. In all, it was an eclectic session of live-music, poetry and freshly-squeezed hip hop (much props to the GYG who rocked it!). Visual art and crafts had their own stage as well from sublime sketches of an Eye in which the pupil serves as a travel map of an imaginary condition to simple stuff like tie-die vests and vintage earrings the kind that was dug out from someone’s granny’s kist.

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2012

Apr

Berita – Artist Profile

Berita is a vocalist, guitarist and singer-songwriter who can be best described as a musical powerhouse. At 20 years old she is releasing her debut album ‘The conquering Spirit’ which best reflects contemporary Afrocentric-soul music. Written in English, Xhosa, Ndebele and Shona the album entails soul soothing, guitar rhythmic stories that capture the innermost emotions of the soul.

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2012

Apr

The City Vagabond 2012 (Wesley Pepper – Artwork)

The series of dry point prints are inspired by events that took place over the past three years from ‘09 – to 2012. Since my last body the pigeon/city vagabond was a static , bold and sometimes melancholic figure. I represented him as victim of circumstance a tragic figure trying to find his way through the city or life.

Three years on and much has changed. I had to endure major changes in both my personal and professional life and I see myself as a victim who took chances that eventually paid off.

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2012

Mar

Black Porcelain: New music video (and single)

“Who is Black Porcelain” That is the question most people ask when they find out that Cape Town based singer songwriter’s is on the playlists of radio stations in 36 countries.

This is no small feat and she did it without a massive label ‘marketing machine’ behind her.

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2012

Feb

Meropa

Meropa is a cult figure on the Joburg art scene and has been an active performer across the city for several years. His blend of the singer/ songwriter genre with traditional African idioms , music styles and themes over with social conscious hip hop ethos.

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2012

Jan

Snatch316 – Graffiti artist profile

Iam a graffiti and stencil artist hailing from Durban. Letter styles and stencil protraits is my main form of work with spraypaint being my medium of choice.

I also freelance as a graphich and web designer.

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2011

Oct

Dabaluthethwa Tfwala

Genesis into an Imaginative Mind - Interview with Vestido Rose

The first one is a 300mmx400mm framed art piece. A bushman is smoking
and it is priced R1 400.

The 2nd image is of a 450x350mm unframed piece. Two bushmen are amused
by a gadget. l titled it complex to them! price R1 500.

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2011

Aug

sunchild – Artist Profile

The sunchild is an independent artist, song writer, bass player and sound engineer, originally from Johannesburg South Africa, now staying in London, UK.

Music style could be classified as hip hop soul, alternative folk rock.

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2011

Apr

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: My Art is My Voice

Good art is what elevates us, compels us to see in it ourselves as we were, are and hope to be… The artist’s revolution is an on-going process, not an ad hoc historical event. He is engaged in a revolution of mind and feeling. He is a teacher, interpreter, a historian of feeling.

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2011

Mar

Tujay Harmoniquez

Jonathan “Tujay Harmoniquez” Groenewald is a 1983 born lyricist who was raised on the platinum streets of Rustenburg where he has latus as a pioneer of the area’s intellectual hip-hop.

He was one of the ingenious members of the group P.O.T (power of the Taurus) that laid down the paving for the hip hop hopefuls who were to follow in their footsteps.

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2011

Jan