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NEWSSome othaship
No Space Station is complete without the advanced technology to transport audiences to the furthest realms. With that in mind PASS III is launching its own sonic rocket outta here – some othaship, to quote Declaime. Situated on St George Mall in Cape Town, it’s an audio-visual public art installation by artist Douglas Gimberg and architecht Greer Valley which we hope will travel farther/further than Mobutu Sese Seko’s notorious ‘Nzwamba fusée’.
posted by: pass ( 11:58 AM ) 06 Sep 2010
NEWSPASS 2010 Live Events
From September 28 – October 2, 2010, PASS III plays host to genre-busting music outfits from global Africa dedicated to exploring new musical territory.
This year’s line up features musical giants such as South Africa’s enigmatic, innovative seer and composer-band leader Doctor Philip Tabane & Malombo, who channel the spirits of Venda through rich polyrhythmic African beats and alchemic free jazz improvisation. They play alongside the young jazz guns of the Kyle Sheperd Trio who fearlessly blaze a new musical trail through everything from free jazz to goema grooves and Xhosa melodies.
The ‘King of 6/8 Rhythm,’ Cameroonian drummer/percussionist Brice Wassy is both a legend and an innovator. His Brice Wassy Trio walks the line between advanced tech-iness and the deliberately antediluvian, bringing together nu-jazz and central African riddims, improvisation with sophisticated compositional imagination. Switzerland based Imperial Tiger Orchestra, in a unique collaboration with Ethiopian singer Endress Hassen, chart a similarly timeless trajectory, mixing ancient Ethiopian traditions with killer big-band hooks and fierce grooves that betray a future-forward electronic vision.
Los Angeles’ othaship connection G&D (Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime) are equally unafraid of crossing borders. In their hands boom-baps are rewired into improvisational forays and corrupted with tinges of g-funk, electro, soul and modern laptop mayhem. The trans-contextual remixing continues with the gloriously tangled roots electronica of Cape Town’s Johnny Cradle and ravenous dynamism and genealogical eclecticism of Thandiswa Mazwai's Afro-jazz trio.
Be prepared to have your conceptions of dance music rewired by Detroit beat pioneer Theo Parrish. In his hands techno is a cross-generic tradition of expansive composition that fuses fragments of jazz, ragas, blues, rock, soul and afrobeat into other-worldly sonic sculptures. He shares the control room with legendary producer and selector Mbuso T and his Maf &so Soundsystem, whose street-infected Soweto funk, Afro-jazz and irresistibly thumpin’ house has had South Africa on its feet for the past decade.
Kisangani (DRC) based dance collective Studio Kabako’s More more more… Future takes PASS' three year long exploration into uncharted territories to new heights. A collaboration between world acclaimed Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula, Afro-punk fashion pioneer Xuly Bët and famed guitarist Flamme Kapaya and his band, and based on the words of dissident poet Antoine Vumilia Muhindo,More…Future simply defies categorisation. It is a pre-Sputnik space travelogue that splices age old rhythms with cyber-punk polemics, explosive dance with experimental theatre, fashion with politics, and mysticism with militancy.
Audiences attending PASS III will travel from St Georges Cathedral, City Hall and the Slave Church in the city centre, to Guga S’thebe in Langa and the Albert Hall in Woodstock.
All shows are R30/pre-booked; R50/door. Tickets are available via Computicket.
posted by: pass ( 11:57 AM ) 06 Sep 2010
NEWSPASS Radio 2010
PASS radio, a unique freeform radio station, is back with 30 days of cutting edge music streamed live online. The station features themed shows, live performances and readings, sound art, interviews and much more.
This year PASS radio expands its sonic territory. In a double-take on the relationship between sound and spatiality, frequencies and territories, it will broadcast from studios at 44 Long Street, Cape Town, as well as a satellite studio in Limbe, Cameroon.
In the build-up to the festival, throughout September, the daily radio programme features live performances at PASS studios on Long Street. These live sessions run between 7-9pm and are guest-curated by musicians, DJs, poets and artists.
PASS radio’s broadcast programme launches on September 12 (Steve Biko Day) with Songs for Biko, a 24-hour marathon performance by many of Cape Town’s leading musicians and poets. Songs for Busi, a musical tribute to the late singer, space-queen and healer Busi Mhlongo, closes the broadcast on October 12.
posted by: pass ( 11:48 AM ) 06 Sep 2010
NEWSSongs for Biko
Join us for Songs for Biko, and other stomps, screams and prayers: a 24-hr marathon praise party to launch PASS 2010.
PASS Studios (Africa Centre, 44 Long Street, Cape Town)
Sat 12 Sept (Biko Day) to Sun 13 Sept, 2010.
DJs, musicians, soundists, poets, generally noise people will present music and sound inspired by Steve Biko’s work; or read from his words in I Write What I Like.
posted by: PASS ( 11:36 AM ) 06 Sep 2010
NEWSPASS II Passcasts
Listen to world renowned groove tastemaker, DJ Andy Williams' PASS 2009 radio and DJ session in the PASSCAST ARCHIVE.
More about Andy here.
posted by: PASS ( 04:16 PM ) 29 Dec 2009
Zooming in
Oshun, the smallest photographer in all the world
posted by: PASS ( 10:30 AM ) 12 Oct 2009
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PASS Fashion Week
nkuli's poetic exploration starts fashionably late today due to an impromptu fashion shoot at pass central... what else can we say? these things do happen!
posted by: PASS ( 03:23 PM ) 11 Oct 2009
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Udaba / Nothembi Mkhwebane / Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER: Udaba / Nothembi Mkhwebane / Hypnotic Brass Ensemble @ Guga S'thebe
pics by Kadiatou Diallo
posted by: pass ( 08:06 AM ) 08 Oct 2009
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Nothembi Mkhwebane at the Centre For The Book
FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER: Nothembi Mkhwebane at the Centre For The Book.
Pics by: Kadiatou Diallo
posted by: PASS ( 07:37 AM ) 08 Oct 2009
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Culture Musical Club / Toumani Diabate at St Georges Cathedral
FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER: Culture Musical Club / Toumani Diabate at St George's Cathedral
Pics by: Kadiatou Diallo & Gregory Franz
posted by: PASS ( 04:37 PM ) 07 Oct 2009
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Udaba / Franck Biyong and Massak at the Centre For The Book
THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER: Udaba / Franck Biyong & Massak at the Centre For The Book
Pics by: Kadiatou Diallo & Gregory Franz
posted by: PASS ( 07:21 AM ) 07 Oct 2009
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TOUMANI DIABATE @ PASS - A REVIEW
Andrew Fisher saw Maitre Diabate and sent these words:
Again and again, the melody rose and fell sadly, as simple and honest as tears, clear and soaring above the gentle rocking between chords. The deep, earthy scent of burning frankincense drifted from somewhere behind me, and, together with the hypnotic rhythm of the kora’s bass notes, sang of the loneliness of a desert crossing. I looked across at my friends, sitting on the floor beside me. Their eyes were locked on this masterful musician, their faces unmoving, rocking themselves gently. We were entranced. We were sharing a secret.
Earlier, Toumani Diabate had explained how his instrument, the kora, has a seven hundred year history, having originated in Mali’s ancient Mande empire; and how mastery of the kora has been passed down father to son for generations. He showed us the sound box made from a calabash gourd covered with goatskin, and the twenty-one nylon strings fanned across the bridge. The kora is played with only four fingers: the thumbs and forefingers of both hands. The left thumb plucks out a bass line; the right thumb is for the melody; and the forefingers are for improvisational riffs and embellishments that evoke the Islamic call to prayer.
Diabate’s improvised riffs were like cascading waterfalls, distracting and brash, adding splashes of interest to the deep waters of the bass and melody. In contrast, when a simple, clean line rose from the flurry of a riff, the music held me completely. This music was ancient, sounding echoes of the suffering of west African slaves in the deep south of America, where the blues originated; the running bass lines, the looped melodic riffs, and the brash improvisations connected a line from Mali through the blues, jazz, rock and gospel, and back to Toumani Diabate, who sat in front of us, on a modest platform in front of the pulpit of the old Slave church, his face humble, his eyes closed, his head rocking from side to side. Now and then he would raise his shoulders in tune with a high note, and moan, it seemed involuntarily, as if he was trying to escape his body and soar along with the music he was hearing so clearly in his mind’s ear.
Watching him like this, lost in his music-making, I remembered the first time I listened to Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert on CD, lying on my back on the floor of my bedroom, eyes closed, breathless, stunned by the beauty of those first chord sequences. Jarrett’s trademark rhythmical “vamping” between just two chords, the basic pattern slowly evolving, punctuated with masterful improvised ornamentation – and his atonal moans – echoed through Diabate’s kora. Perhaps they are kindred musical souls – both musical genii, speaking a language I cannot fully understand, yet which moves me close to tears with its unspeakable beauty.
Toumani Diabate performed for the first time ever in South Africa, at the Slave Church, 40 Long Street, Cape Town, on Thursday 01 October 2009, and again at St. George’s Cathedral on 02 October, as part of the Pan African Space Station project. The project runs in Cape Town until 12 October 2009. For more information see: www.myspace.com/toumanidiabate and www.panafricanspacestation.org.za.
posted by: PASS ( 09:30 PM ) 06 Oct 2009
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Wanlov the Kubulor / Toumani Diabate @ Slave Church
THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER: Ghanaian Pidgin rapper Wanlov the Kubulor and Kora maestroToumani Diabate at the Slave Church
Pics by: Kadiatou Diallo & Gregory Franz
posted by: PASS ( 08:56 AM ) 06 Oct 2009
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Anthony forces a last-minute interview out of the queen of Ndebele music
posted by: PASS ( 03:00 PM ) 04 Oct 2009
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PASS IN JAPAN
http://www.capetownnews.jp/2009/10/pan-african-space/
posted by: PASS ( 02:53 PM ) 04 Oct 2009
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Space traveling with the queen of Ndebele electric music
posted by: PASS ( 07:29 AM ) 04 Oct 2009
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Kubulor spreads the Wanlov @ PASS studio
posted by: pass ( 01:13 PM ) 02 Oct 2009
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War Chorale world premiere
Composed and directed by Bheki Khosa, War Chorale is a musical response to a short novella by Chilean author and activist, Fernando Alegria.
It brought together multi-talented jazz vocalist and trombone player Siya Makuzeni, Mozambican guitarist and bandleader Dino Miranda, jazz ensemble A Congregation and the Unqambothi mixed choir in a once off performance that opened PASS II on September 30.
Pics by Noncedo Mathabile, Gregory Franz, Kadiatou Diallo and Stacy Hardy
posted by: PASS ( 12:44 PM ) 02 Oct 2009
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wanlov the kubolor
Wanlov warms up for tonight's gig at the Slave Lodge with kora master Toumani Diabate.... get you tickets now.
posted by: PASS ( 08:45 AM ) 01 Oct 2009
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The kubolor rehearses at pass central
Wanlov jam livity
posted by: pass ( 02:17 PM ) 30 Sep 2009
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Bheki Khoza talks War Chorale
Composer and director Bheki Khoza, trombone player Siya Makuzeni & Stacy Hardy talk War Chorale, a chorale work based on a novella by pioneering Chilean academic, visionary, writer and revolutionary Fernando Alegría.
Get more info on War Chorale here.
And catch it tonight @ 7pm at St Georges Cathedral. Book your tickets here.
posted by: PASS ( 02:11 PM ) 30 Sep 2009
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NEWSWORLD PREMIERE OF "WAR CHORALE" THIS EVENING
Composed and directed by Bheki Khoza in response to a novella by Chilean author and activist, Fernando Alegria, War Chorale is a musical exploration into the slipperiness of history, love and memory, and the nearly invisible line that separates fiction from reality.
A consummate composer and producer, Khoza acted as musical director for the films Sophiatown (2003) and Drum (2004) and recently garnered widespread acclaim for his arrangements on Simphiwe Dana's album One Love Movement On Bantu Biko Street (2007).
Khoza will conduct and perform the world premiere of his War Chorale this evening at the St George Cathedral. Tickets avialable via Computicket.
posted by: PASS ( 12:48 PM ) 30 Sep 2009
Wanlov shares the love
Kubolor! Kubolor! Wanlov the Kubolor is in the house! Catch his socially conscious, present-tense words and sounds the Slave Church on Oct 1.
Book NOW!
posted by: PASS ( 10:33 PM ) 29 Sep 2009
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NEWSMEET THE ARTISTS
PASS will host daily group-interviews with the participating artists, at our studios at 44 Long Street. Come and meet the messengers!
Here's the schedule:
TODAY, 29 SEPT, 7-8PM: BHEKI KHOZA/UDABA
WED 30 SEPT, 1-2PM: WANLOV/CULTURE MUSICAL CLUB
THURS 1 OCT, 1-2PM, HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE/FRANCK BIYONG
FRI 2 OCT, 1-2PM, TOUMANI DIABATE/RAS_G
posted by: PASS ( 05:48 PM ) 29 Sep 2009
NEWSThe Franck Biyong Extravaganza
Cameroonian composer and producer Franck Biyong operates outside the boundaries which map the trajectories of African musicians in and out of the continent. After migrating to France in the late 80s, he consciously bypassed Paris and Brussels' factories of Afro-pop slickness to establish himself as an electro producer in the London Underground. And although he formed Massak in 1997 as an Afrobeat ensemble-tribute to the legendary Africa 70 and Egypt 80, he used the band as a platform to project the music forward - a sound he called "Afrolectric".
Don't miss this.
posted by: PASS ( 06:44 PM ) 28 Sep 2009
NEWSMAESTRO
Need we say more? He's at the Slave Church Museum on Oct 1 and St George Cathedral on Oct 2. Book NOW!
posted by: PASS ( 03:29 PM ) 28 Sep 2009
The week PASSing
pics by Mimi Cherono Ng'ok, Unathi Sondiyazi
posted by: PASS ( 03:22 PM ) 28 Sep 2009
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NEWSKubolor! Kubolor!!
On any given day in Accra, you're likely to see the barefooted, mud skirt clad Wanlov the Kubolor, alone or with fellow musicians, playing his two koshkas or his atenteben as his fans, young and old, follow-follow, dance and sing along. Kubolor! Kubolor! Not since Fela Kuti, had any African artist been able to combine popular appeal, social consciousness and musical experimentation so successfully. And like Fela, Wanlov creates present-tense music which blends Pidgin rap with Ghanian folk music. With added myspaceness and great facebookality.
Wanlov brings his accoustic crew to the Slave Church on Oct 1 for PASS. Book NOW!
posted by: pass ( 04:38 PM ) 27 Sep 2009
NEWSBheki Khoza
Composed and directed by Bheki Khoza in response to a short novella by Chilean author and activist, Fernando Alegria, War Chorale is a musical exploration into the slipperiness of history, love and memory, and the nearly invisible line that separates fiction from reality.
A consummate composer and producer, Khoza acted as musical director for the films Sophiatown (2003) and Drum (2004) and recently garnered widespread acclaim for his arrangements on Simphiwe Dana's album One Love Movement On Bantu Biko Street (2007).
For War Chorale, he collaborates with trombonist and voice artist Siya Makuzeni, CT jazz ensemble A Congregation and Khaya-based 12-piece choir Unqambothi.
See Bheki Khoza here with Sonti Mndebele, Feya Faku, Sydney Mnisi, Bheki Khoza and the Paul van Kemenade Quintet on tour in the Netherlands
posted by: PASS ( 04:14 PM ) 27 Sep 2009
war chorale in rehearsal
Bheki Khoza "Chorales" jazz enemble A Congregation's sound
Get more info on War Chorale here. And book your tickets here.
posted by: PASS ( 03:13 PM ) 27 Sep 2009
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BRING YOUR OWN!
PASS chef Thobikile couldn't be here today - pls bring your own food/drink as you join in...See you soon...44 Long Street. Fong Fong provide the sounds
posted by: PASS ( 12:01 PM ) 27 Sep 2009
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Brendon, Dean & Mark
Pics by Niklas Zimmer
posted by: pass ( 12:16 PM ) 26 Sep 2009
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Tyrone Appollis celebrates Biko
Dear all at The Pan African Space Station,
Thank you for letting us know about your online radio station. In view of your celebration of Steve Biko we thought you may be interested in the following painting by celebrated South African artist Tyrone Appollis:
Artist: TYRONE APPOLLIS
Title: Steve Biko
Size: 90 x 69 cm
Media: Acrylic
Framed.
Kind regards,.
Jade Carvalho
The Cape Gallery
posted by: pass ( 12:00 PM ) 26 Sep 2009
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Students For Humanity @ PASS
The youth (and I) are inspired...
http://studentsforhumanity.com/2009/09/23/2010-vocab-pan-african-space-station
Much appreciation for the platform.
Love,
Nonkululeko Godana
posted by: PASS ( 11:56 AM ) 26 Sep 2009
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NEWSPASS Live - BOOK NOW!!
From September 30 - October 4, PASS II plays host to genre-busting music outfits from global Africa dedicated to exploring new musical territory.
BOOK NOW for:
War Chorale w Bheki Khoza, Wanlov the Kubulor, Toumani Diabate, uDaba, Franck Biyong and his Massak Afroletric Orchestra, Barry Van Zyl & Baboti, Nothembi Mkhwebane, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Culture Musical Club, Ras_G & the Afrikan Space Program, Fong Kong Bantu Soundsystem, DJ Andy Williams & DJ Funafuji.
More details here.
posted by: pass ( 08:19 AM ) 25 Sep 2009
PASSed ACTION
pics by Gregory Franz
posted by: PASS ( 06:25 PM ) 24 Sep 2009
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NEWSPASS Live - BOOK NOW!!
From September 30 - October 4, PASS II plays host to genre-busting music outfits from global Africa dedicated to exploring new musical territory.
BOOK NOW for:
War Chorale w Bheki Khoza, Wanlov the Kubulor, Toumani Diabate, uDaba, Franck Biyong and his Massak Afroletric Orchestra, Barry Van Zyl & Baboti, Nothembi Mkhwebane, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Culture Musical Club, Ras_G & the Afrikan Space Program, Fong Kong Bantu Soundsystem, DJ Andy Williams & DJ Funafuji.
More details here.
posted by: PASS ( 10:28 AM ) 24 Sep 2009
(Dean + Mark) X abstrakshin = LIVE
Dean and Mark spinning PASS
posted by: PASS ( 09:30 PM ) 23 Sep 2009
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Undagroun Spiritual Playas
Heppy earth-day to Saint John Coltrane, Liepollo and Mwenya. Eternal tnx n' respek for the supreme love. More time.
posted by: Ntone ( 08:48 PM ) 23 Sep 2009
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Brendon prepares for his set tonight
posted by: PASS ( 07:06 PM ) 23 Sep 2009
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Eriko out of Tokyo in town for PASS
posted by: pass ( 03:30 PM ) 22 Sep 2009
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the kultural kommissars
pics by Kadiatou Diallo
posted by: pass ( 03:25 PM ) 22 Sep 2009
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The PASSed week in pics
pics by Gregory Franz, Noncedo Mathibela, Mimi Cherono Ng'ok, Unathi Sondiyazi & Kadiatou Diallo
posted by: PASS ( 03:19 PM ) 22 Sep 2009
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Afrika: Raps Reloaded edutainment
posted by: PASS ( 09:33 PM ) 21 Sep 2009
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Freestyling @ PASS
Freestyle singers united
posted by: PASS ( 08:23 AM ) 21 Sep 2009
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PASS Poetics
Thobekile starts a Revolution & Bulelwa the Poetess
posted by: PASS ( 05:10 PM ) 20 Sep 2009
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Sunday Afternoon Vibes
Kisangwa & Bridgette
posted by: PASS ( 03:21 PM ) 20 Sep 2009
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Maher & Sousou Cissoko @ PASS
Maher Cissoko on Kora & Ida Cissoko with dad Maher play PaSS
Maher serenades & Maher & Sousou Cissoko
posted by: PASS ( 09:20 PM ) 19 Sep 2009
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Music preachers Izithunywa jam PASS
Izithunywa jam n' PASS & Sibusiso travelling in PASS space
music preachers izithunywa closing their set
posted by: PASS ( 06:01 PM ) 19 Sep 2009
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Evesdrop on PASS
MC Malik introduces izithunywa & Evesdrop drop in
Evesdrop-ing
posted by: PASS ( 04:37 PM ) 19 Sep 2009
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Saturday Afternoon Beatology
Rasta greets on the PASS balcony & studying beatology 101 
Dj Beatology & Beatology class 1
posted by: PASS ( 04:26 PM ) 19 Sep 2009
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Join FKBSS for breakfast this Sunday
Fong Kong Bantu Sound System present THE INTERSTELLAR BREAKFAST SHOW
Drop in at the studio for a beat breakfast served up by the Fong Kong Bantus and guests. SUNDAY 20 SEPT from 6AM TO 12PM at PASS studios, 1st floor 44 Long St Cape Town.
posted by: PASS ( 04:04 PM ) 19 Sep 2009
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Last night in the PASS studio
rap, romance & righteous sounds, thursday 17 sept in PASS studio pics by noncedo mathabile and mimi cherono ng'ok
posted by: PASS ( 06:14 PM ) 18 Sep 2009
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Party ard @ Pass this Sat, 19 Sept
'ard 35
Something for your Saturday night...
Deep-dub-electro-bass-tech-hop with bleeps, sweeps and the odd crooner classic. Come around. Have a boogie. It'll be fun.
WHEN: 19 Sep 2009, 8pm - 2am CAT
WHERE: PASS studio, Africa Centre, 44 Long St, Cape Town
WHO: Niklas Zimmer & Brendon Bussy, Bruno Morphet, CY Cowboys, Microstripe, Radioboy, H
HOW MUCH: Free entry, cash bar
The festivities will be broadcast live from aboard the Pan African Space Station.
More details here.
posted by: PASS ( 02:22 PM ) 18 Sep 2009
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New Old, Old New: Gavin Coppenhall
posted by: pass ( 02:50 AM ) 17 Sep 2009
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Gavin Coppenhall on the Kundi harp
eya, eya ye!
posted by: PASS ( 02:38 AM ) 17 Sep 2009
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New Old Old New in studio
Gavin of the traditional mbira of Zimbabwe on PASS radio
posted by: PASS ( 07:48 PM ) 16 Sep 2009
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brother Drew spinning records on PASS
posted by: PASS ( 01:43 PM ) 16 Sep 2009
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In the PASS Studio
pix: unathi sondiyazi,atang tshikare,terry ayugi and mimi cherono
posted by: pass ( 10:36 PM ) 15 Sep 2009
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DJ Drew Williams lands from Canada
Montreal to Cape Town PASS central, that's how Drew do!
posted by: PASS ( 10:31 PM ) 15 Sep 2009
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NEWSDJ ANDY WILLIAMS IS HERE!!!
In Montreal, where he lives, they call world renowned groove tastemaker, DJ Andy Williams, "The Teacher", for his ability to both educate and motivate a dance floor. The founder of the popular "The Goods" party and radio show, 46-year-old Williams is also a respected Afro-jazz archaeologist. In 2008 he released an acclaimed compilation of cross-generational jazz and spoken work titled Variations in Time: a jazz perspective.
ANDY will host a daily lunchtime show on PASS,from 12-3pm, interviewing local jazzists and wordists; connecting with the global underground - will feature podcasts from Madlib etc and more.
He's doing a welcome set for PASS right now!!
posted by: pass ( 09:05 PM ) 15 Sep 2009
Photos: PASS launches into orbit
Pics by Noncedo Mathabile, Masekwe Gozo and & Gregory Franz
posted by: PASS ( 08:42 AM ) 15 Sep 2009
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Raps Reloaded sistas driving PASS radio
posted by: PASS ( 06:41 PM ) 14 Sep 2009
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The last survivors @ Songs for Biko
Still going after 24 hours of praise partying.
Pics by Kadiatou Diallo
posted by: pass ( 04:03 PM ) 14 Sep 2009
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Styling in the PASS Studio
Pic by Warren Nelson
posted by: PASS ( 04:01 PM ) 14 Sep 2009
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Pics live from Song for Biko
Sara ironing things out on PASSstand & Pass party people
PASS the centre & lean back
Funafuji spinning PASS out!! & Ms Hannah aPASSing
Emcee Ntone & Jika mfana!
Plan be: a soul housing project, kwa PASS
posted by: PASS ( 07:16 AM ) 13 Sep 2009
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Live @ Songs for Biko
uDaba & Brendon
Wendy, Africa & Sims rapping from Reloaded
Dino Miranda flying in the PASSship
posted by: PASS ( 12:34 AM ) 13 Sep 2009
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Songs for Biko, Sat 12 Sept @ PASS
Join us for Songs for Biko and other stomps, screams and prayers: a 24-hr marathon praise party to launch the Pan African Space Station.
PASS Studios
Africa Centre, 44 Long Street, Cape Town
6pm on Sat 12 Sept (Biko Day) - 6pm on Sun 13 Sept
DJs, musicians, soundists, poets will present music, sound and words inspired by Steve Biko's work.
In studio: soul housing project Plan Be; Moz guitarist & bandleader Dino Miranda; enigmatic soundist Brendon Bussy & friends; independent collective Dala Flats; female-led jazz ensemble The Congregation; dub mistress Funafuji; DJ Mighty (Mabu Vinyl), DJ Hannah and more.
Fong Kong Bantu Sound System and chief chef Thobikile cook up an Ital beat breakfast on Sunday from 6am to 12pm. Nonkululeko Godana hosts spoken words from 2pm.
posted by: pass ( 06:37 PM ) 11 Sep 2009
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THE INTERSTELLAR BREAKFAST SHOW
Fong Kong Bantu Sound System present THE INTERSTELLAR BREAKFAST SHOW on PASS Radio.
Drop in for a beat breakfast served up by the Fong Kong Bantus and guests at PASS studios, 1st floor 44 Long St Cape Town SUNDAYS from 6AM TO 12PM. Stay on for the ital breakfast served up by chief chef Thobekile.
Sunday, 13 September , session forms part of SONGS FOR BIKO – a 24-hr marathon praise party to launch the Pan African Space Station
Details here.
posted by: pass ( 10:32 AM ) 11 Sep 2009
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'ard 35, Sat 19 Sep on PASS radio
Date: Saturday, 19 September 2009, 8pm - 2am
Venue: PASS Studio, Africa Centre, 44 Long Street, Cape Town
Cover: Free 
Broadcast from 1995 until 2004, first on MFM in Stellenbosch and later across the city on Bush 89.5, 'ardkore was a unique outlet for Cape Town's electronic musical prowess. There were enough fine DJ and artist outings to make one weep. The show also led to the community of artists, designers and media inventors at Liquid Fridge. And now, past guests of 'ardkore are reuniting to celebrate the birthday of the man behind all this 'ardness. Details here.
posted by: pass ( 10:27 AM ) 11 Sep 2009
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Songs for Biko
Join us for Songs for Biko, and other stomps, screams and prayers: a 24-hr marathon praise party to launch PASS.
PASS Studios (Africa Centre, 44 Long Street, Cape Town)
1 pm on Sat 12 Sept (Biko Day) to 1pm on Sun 13 Sept.
DJs, musicians, soundists, poets, generally noise people will present music and sound inspired by Steve Biko's work; or read from his words in I Write What I Like.
In studio: soul housing project Plan Be; Moz guitarist and bandleader Dino Miranda; enigmatic soundist Brendon Bussy & friends; independent collective Dala Flats; female-led jazz ensemble The Congregation; dub mistress Funafuji; DJ Mighty (Mabu Vinyl) and the soulful Miss H.
Fong Kong Bantu Sound System and chief chef Thobikile cook up an Ital breakfast on Sunday from 6am to 12pm. Nonkululeko Godana hosts spoken words from 2pm.
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uDaba live at PASS central
More about uDaba here.
And catch them live on the PASS festival at Centre for Book (Thurs Oct 1, from 9pm); Guga S'thebe (Sat Oct 3, from 12pm) in collaboration with spoken-word author and filmmaker Kgafela oa Magogodi.
posted by: pass ( 09:40 PM ) 04 Sep 2009
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umThwakazi + umYalezo (jam session)@ PASS
seedrekodz and PASS presents:
umThwakazi+ umYalezo (jam session)
live@ pass 44 long st. CT
friday 4th sep 2009.
round about 19h00
free entry!!!
CDs on sale...
Bring self and frendz.
posted by: pass ( 05:58 PM ) 03 Sep 2009
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brendon bussy in studio
Turntablebowsaxomandolinfridgeaxembira (for windows?)
As part of the build up to the Pan African Space Station festival, Brendon Bussy is presenting a series of performances exploring unusual approaches to music making.
Bussy launched the series by matching his mandolin with ventriloquist software
Check out future editions coming to the PASS studio
posted by: Stacy Hardy ( 03:20 AM ) 03 Sep 2009
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PASS - counting down
PASS radio test
posted by: Stacy Hardy ( 03:13 AM ) 03 Sep 2009
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NEWSPASS II
The Pan African Space Station ( PASS )
September 12 - October 12
Cape Town/Cyberspace
In the build-up to the festival, throughout September, the daily radio programme includes a free, live performance at PASS studios on Long Street, and curated by local musicians, DJs and artists.
Highlights on this year's broadcast programme include Songs for Biko, a 24-hour praise party for Steve Biko on 12 Sept (Biko Day) and Songs for Bheki, a musical tribute to the late philosopher and musician Bheki Mseleku, which closes the live music component on October 4.
SPACE II
From October 1 - 4 2009, PASS II plays host to genre-busting music outfits from global Africa dedicated to exploring new musical territory. Acclaimed Kora maestro Toumani Diabate mediates traditions inherited from Mali's ancient Mandé Empire through globetrotting jazz, blues and electro frequencies in his first ever South African performance. Expect an equally courageous and spiritual performance from Queen of Ndebele music, guitarist Nothembi Mkhwebane.
9-piece, Chicago-based jazz troubadours Hypnotic Brass Ensemble remap the street-music tradition that runs from jazz's earliest days through free-jazz, dub and hip-hop into a rowdy, rousing party-music script. Other big bands on the bill include Cameroonian funk-master Franck Biyong and his Massak Afroletric Orchestra who reimagine Afrobeat via fearless forays into electronica, soul and hip-hop; and Zanzibar's legendary taarab orchestra and social club, the Culture Musical Club.
Ras_G & the Afrikan Space Program, brings interstellar beats spiced with bleeps, dub fx, Sun Ra samples and car horns - like a sonic clash between digital and analogue words - from his El-Ay, Western Sahara space base. And Wanlov the Kubulor's pidgin music delivers socially engaged lyrics over Ghanaian folk instrumentation and boom-baps. PASS II will also feature some of the continent's most esteemed selectors, including Dar es Salaam's DJ Yusuf Mahmoud and Cape Town's own Fong Kong Bantu Soundsystem.
The festival also features a series of new collaborations between South African musicians. Multi-talented jazz vocalist and trombone player Siya Makuzeni adds adventurous sonic textures to world-renowned drummer and percussionist Barry van Zyl's southern African sound-rhythm stew, Baboti. Elsewhere, politically engaged, slamming jazz upstarts uDaba are joined by spoken-word artist Kgafela oa Magogodi.
In addition, the festival will includes a collaborative, experimental chorale work based on the novella War Chorale by pioneering Chilean academic, visionary, writer and revolutionary Fernando Alegría, with composition and direction by jazz guitarist Bheki Khoza.
The live music component PASS takes place in a series of different venues across greater Cape Town, engaging diverse together audiences and provoking new forms of creative expression and social mobilization that foregrounding history and memory as well as agency and difference. Audiences will travel from St Georges Cathedral, the Centre for the Book and the Slave Church in the city centre to Guga S'thebe in Langa and All Nations Club in Salt River.
PASS is an initiative of the Africa Centre in partnership with Heliocentrics (Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga).