Fanfare Ciocărlia are the planet’s foremost Balkan brass band, soundtracking Guinness and Ikea ads, covered and copied, remixed and sampled, winning international awards and, night after night, taking their furious brass blast to the stage
Stella Chiweshe [photo: Camille Bokhobza]
Stella Chiweshe is 74 years old. She’s travelled the world, starred in films, been a cultural ambassador for Zimbabwe, and much more besides. She defied social taboo and colonial laws to become one of the first female professional
mbira players and she follows the voices of spirits. She has a lot of stories to tell.
A typically magical story is the first time she performed with European musicians – members of 3 Mustaphas 3 – while recording in Berlin. The Mustaphas were understandably nervous ahead of their first encounter with Chiweshe. But Chiweshe wasn’t worried. She’d met them before. “Yes, it was my first time meeting them physically,” she grins, “but in my sleep, when I was dreaming, I had played with them for a long time before. When we finally met, it was like flipping a switch. They got the music right in a very short time. They were all so surprised, but I was
Thank God he can read good, and writes great, run the whole entire state with the right bass. Thank God he’s not a chess player, over-thinking (expletive) keep it player, mayonnaise and mustard with the slowed-up sound. Thank God he’s poet now. Poster child you flagrant fouls. Thank God he can run fast and he can jump high . or else he’d be a dead man. Deezie Brown, “Sumn to Say”
Growing up in rural Texas, Deezie Brown observed what he thinks of as “small-town syndrome.”
Young Black men would either play sports or fall into crime, he said on a recent episode of Austin360’s streaming show, the Monday Music Mashup.
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