Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.The landings’ oxblood tiles with their arty off-white patterns and the maroon walls with matching leaf patterns and black tiles keep it interesting as I make my way up three flights of marble stairs.
We settle into a generous, north-facing room further down the hallway. I bet it was the bank manager’s corner office. I could imagine him struggling to stay awake after a long lunch in an Indian summer like the one we are having.There is the “little matter” of her highly anticipated new record, ready for release on 10 May, then the mini-concert tour starting on 11 May at Carnival City, I reply.“I have none of that,” she smiles. “They’ve tried, to no avail.
Mazwai gave it to West African musicians, with Nduduzo Makhathini her producer for the Senegal sessions. They played West African instruments, such as the kora and the ngoni, which combined with the traditional South African bow instruments umrhubhe and uhadi from the ILAM archive. “Some people cry from a dance song, that you think is supposed to make someone dance, and they will cry. I cannot predict what you should feel from it.”“I felt a great sense of relief! It took me so long to make, so I’m really happy that it’s finally done. And I think, really, when you’re an artist, that’s the true marker of success — finishing your work.
Mazwai is one of South Africa’s most important post-apartheid artists, starting her career in the groups Jack Knife and Bongo Maffin and pioneering kwaito music. Zabalalais her fourth solo album. I ask the 48-year-old Mazwai if it has made her feel older or younger. “On a personal kind of note, it has begun, but it hasn’t finished, its work. It has begun to free me of some really ingrained traumas that I carry with me, though.
“Songs have reasons that they want to exist and they have very long lives in which to accomplish that.”“It’s hard to say what she would have made of the album,” she says. “But, you know, I spent my whole life trying to make her proud. Trying to create the kind of work that she would deal with.”“She came to my boarding school and I was singing there,” she recalls. “I remember we drove home that night and she said to me, ‘I didn’t know you could sing like that.
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