nic patonMama Dance’s follow up to Afro Zen is MD388 Afro Zen 2 – Inner Light. It features 4 of my tracks. The less-is-more “Zen” aesthetic […]
Category: african music
Andre Eagle – Settle Down (2024)
Guitarist/Pianist/Composer Andrew Eagle and I go back to 1985 when we studied jazz together at the University of (kwaZulu-)Natal, later touring the US with the […]
African Experience (2024)
“African Experience” (OLMG-196) is my first participation with Nashville-based collective Opening Line Music Group. I met Chuck Schlacter at the PMA conference in Los Angeles […]
Afro Jive Time! (2024)
Mama Dance MD346 Afro Jive Time! – Upbeat, Quirky & Fun. A quirky and playful selection of jivey, Southern African flavoured tunes. Plenty of upbeat, […]
Rock Gqom – Rawkus Energy (2024)
I team up with local artist Zamile Somchiza for an experimental fusing of South African Urban genre gqom with good old rocking electric guitars. Hear […]
Afro Timelapse – immersive organic pulses (2023)
Fast-plucked acoustic riffs, dynamic percussion, and arpeggiated electro with minimal harmony or melody, “Afro Timelapse” (Mama Dance MD314) references the African repetition aesthetic, the minimalism […]