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“Afronaut is not in a race, we are a race,” says Afronaut band guitarist, Thulasizwe Nkosi when we speak. The band which hails from Soweto and which is still relatively new, just released their first EP,
Africans from Outta Space, a six-song, twenty-minute long project, with an eye-catching album cover that depicts two old taxis without wheels, hovering above the road like the flying vehicles from the 1982 science fiction film
Blade Runner.
The album’s released single
Birdhouse is a commentary on turbulent contemporary times, with lyrics that harness 2020 ambience confusion and desperation.
“Everybody’s going crazy, Everybody’s going cuckoo, The whole world’s going crazy, The whole world’s going cuckoo!”, chants Afronaut’s lead singer, Fumane Mahane, who starts off the song with a mix of deranged and hilarious chicken calls.