Spirit of Ntu: South African piano maestro Nduduzo Makhathini on his 10th album
This album is emerging out of these burning fires. We’re burning because the system has always been a minute away from collapsing. And now, with the pandemic, even the suggestions of– how do people exercise social distancing if you’ve pushed them to extreme dysfunctionality in the townships? You started to see that all the regulations are for a particular people that live in a particular category – a class – but it’s not speaking to the majority.
This is what I am doing with this album – I’m going to burn inside until my ancestors show up because this needs to change. I think about fire in a symbolic way.on the new album, I was struck by the dissonant melody, reminiscent of amahubo , coupled with a sporadic, conversational approach in the piano. This is rooted in a trance-like combination of the bass groove, falling on distinct moments, against a fixed drum pulse.
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