Sibsibusile Xaba: Unlearning / Open Letter To Adoniah - COMPACT DISCS

Sibsibusile Xaba: Unlearning / Open Letter To Adoniah - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Unlearning Open Letter To Adoniah Artist: Sibsibusile Xaba Label: Mushroom Hour Half Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 6001651062151 Genre: International Release Date: 2017 08 25 Number of Discs: 2 The independent, South African record label Mushroom Hour Half Hour present Open Letter To Adoniah, a moving album by talented guitarist and songwriter Sibusile Xaba, who improvises the musical legacy of KwaZulu Natal into an exciting, genre less

Title: Unlearning / Open Letter To Adoniah
Artist: Sibsibusile Xaba
Label: Mushroom Hour Half
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 6001651062151
Genre: International
Release Date: 2017-08-25
Number of Discs: 2

The independent, South African record label Mushroom Hour Half Hour present Open Letter To Adoniah, a moving album by talented guitarist and songwriter Sibusile Xaba, who improvises the musical legacy of KwaZulu-Natal into an exciting, genre-less future. A lynchpin in South Africa's new generation of jazz musicians, KwaZulu-Natal born guitarist and vocalist Sibusile Xaba has all the makings of an acoustic guitar master. With a vocal style that is part dreamscaping and part ancestral invocation, Xaba divines as opposed to plainly singing. Combined with a guitar style that is rooted in expressive picking, Xaba's music shatters the confines of genre, taking only the fundamentals from mentors such as Madala Kunene and Dr. Philip Tabane and imbuing these with a mythology and improvisational intensity all of his own. Open Letter to Adoniah is an album reverent of life and it's connectedness to a higher source. The music emanates from dreams revealed to guitarist Sibusile Xaba over consecutive days. With percussionists Thabang Tabane and Moahanganai Magagula, the trio coalesces both geographic and spiritual influences, hinting at Maskandi (a music style dominant in Xaba's native KwaZulu-Natal) and the improvisational culture of South Africa's jazz avant-garde. Collectively, the musicians remold these influences, situating them within rhythms that span the continent. Thabang Tabane's influence over the project gives it a spiritual sensibility allusive to Malombo which his father Dr. Philip Tabane originated in the late 1960s. Mushroom Hour Half Hour is a Johannesburg based, independent record label and a mobile recording studio that unearths and records unique music from the African continent. Xaba's debut project is Mushroom Hour's first international release. Produced by Thabang Tabane. Double CD version includes the album Unlearning as disc one.

Tracks:
1.1 Bearer of Seed
1.2 I Wrote It for Ziare
1.3 Empress Lea
1.4 Internet Dance
1.5 Inkululeko
1.6 Sibongile: Tribute to the Mother
2.1 Open Letter to Adoniah
2.2 Wampona
2.3 Emazulwini
2.4 Sibongile: Tribute to the Mother (Reprise)
2.5 Nomaphupho
2.6 Angisenalutho
2.7 Nyanda Yeni (Interlude)
2.8 Swaziland
2.9 Liyabukwa
2.10 Inkululeko (Reprise)