The avant-garde music transcends boundaries, blending healing sounds and community roots
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.In the spirit: Afrofuturism group Sun Xa Experiment, which has been around for a decade, has just released an eponymous second album.The name is a mixture of Sun Ra, the late avant-garde American jazz icon, and Ndikho Xaba, who was an exiled left-field South African pianist and songwriter. Both these artists have inspired the band’s sounds immensely.
“We thought our mic was on. Clearly, we are tired from the rehearsal we just had,” she says with so much energy that I fail to see the exhaustion she is talking about. I agree, thinking it would have been a great way to avoid all the technological glitches and the distraction of the screaming three-year-old in the background — one of the stresses of working from home during the school holidays.
Although the constant shift in numbers was tough for the group, they forged ahead and reminded each other of the reason they gathered in the first place. Their sound, Afrofuturism, seeks to retell the African story in a positive light, where we are prosperous, allowing us to tap into technology and the future in a liberating way.
“However, we are also having a dialogue where we allow our listeners to introspect and see where they have gone wrong in their relationships,” Njoko says. “The band is a family and we see the people who consume our music as family. So, we want to meet them, tell them about the music, and give them the music in their hands to take home.”
“What we have done is we have picked up the phone and called ourselves. We realised that we were not getting booked, so we started touring and getting the music out there. Afrofuturism in South Africa: Reimagining the present and future Today, it generally refers to literature, music and visual art. Some contemporary musicians associated with Afrofuturism include Outkast, Nona Hendryx, George Clinton, Janelle Monáe and Solange.
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