New Internationalist

MUSIC

Uprize!

by Spaza

(Mushroom Hour Half Hour LP + digital)

mushroomhour.com

Based in Johannesburg, Spaza are fast becoming an icon of the South African city’s pioneering jazz scene. This scene has been nurtured by Mushroom Hour Half Hour – first a pirate radio is a powerful work in its own right. It’s not a soundtrack in the original sense – something that underpins visual action – but more a meditation in the form of a collection of improvisations that uses audio to produce a bigger picture.

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