On tomorrow's edition of the April #LAChats we'll be hosting spiritual pianist and composer @nduduzo_m in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month.
— http://www.leafrinique.co.za (@leafrinique) April 16, 2020
Stay tuned on this thread for the exclusive Twitterview! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/4636SOvo4Q
It's almost time! We're just a few minutes from our #LAChats Twitterview with @nduduzo_m 😎
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Thanks for having me
— Nduduzo Makhathini (@nduduzomakh) April 17, 2020
🚀🛸🕯🙏🏽♥️
— Nduduzo Makhathini (@nduduzomakh) April 17, 2020
— Nduduzo Makhathini (@nduduzomakh) April 17, 2020
In words, who’s song (including the artist) are you describing and how has hearing that
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the particular song made an impact on your career as a composer?#LeAfrinique #LAChats
And of course this has been a kind of frame for my own imaginings of composition and also an example of how to walk this journey
— Nduduzo Makhathini (@nduduzomakh) April 17, 2020
This song became a gateway between my upbringing and journey ahead, it confirmed deep affinities between African and it’s echoes across the oceans. I had been looking for these connections within jazz
— Nduduzo Makhathini (@nduduzomakh) April 17, 2020
This record is a bridge to unseen realms, how to communicate and receive messages from our ancestors and our gods. It’s about ritual technology, a term I use to demystify the ‘manufactured’ viewings of African spirituality and belief systems
— Nduduzo Makhathini (@nduduzomakh) April 17, 2020
No it wasn’t, I see the record as articulating other forms of languages beyond jazz, but of course this was a great coincidence. Post the release? I see the timing of this record as speaking to current global challenges
— Nduduzo Makhathini (@nduduzomakh) April 17, 2020
In many ways the art is honored by our very presence of the art form in these moments, it’s histories are celebrated now and sounded out more deliberately in the music. And of course the sudden shift to virtual space as the main field has helped.
— Nduduzo Makhathini (@nduduzomakh) April 17, 2020
This evening we celebrate the life of Moses Molelekwa online with other musicians, this is curated by @nothembaujx and @Powerfm987 so we are figuring out alternatives
— Nduduzo Makhathini (@nduduzomakh) April 17, 2020
This was wonderful, thank you for expanding possibilities of what can be done now!!!
— Nduduzo Makhathini (@nduduzomakh) April 17, 2020
To our followers, if you missed our #JazzAppreciationMonth playlist curated by our content contributor and DJ @EphraimPooe check out the link below 😎
— http://www.leafrinique.co.za (@leafrinique) April 17, 2020
It features our #LAChats @nduduzo_m as well as more creators of the beautiful music that is Jazz 🎺https://t.co/GxN0HLTC4w pic.twitter.com/7scPt9QeMJ
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