MUSIC
Oct 15, 2020
2 minutes
Reviews editor: Vanessa Baird
Words: Louise Gray and Malcolm Lewis
Uprize!
by Spaza
(Mushroom Hour Half Hour LP + digital)
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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