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South African rapper, producer and musical artist, Sam Turpin
4AM IN JOZI

Sam Turpin’s notes on grief

The legacy of photographer Gisèle Wulfsohn echoes through her son’s music as Sam Turpin confronts sorrow through art

  • Fezokuhle Mthonti
6 min read
South African experimental rock band BLK JKS, composed of vocalist and guitarist Mpumelelo Mcata, bassist Molefi Makananise, trumpeter Tebogo Seitei and drummer Tshepang Ramoba. Photo: Brett Rubin
BLK JKS

BLK RCK Festival celebrates the impact of black music on alternative culture

The BLK JKS present a two-day transcendental music experience during their Black Rock Safari tour

  • Phendu Kuta
5 min read
The Texture of Silence, featuring Cara Stacey, Keenan Ahrends and Mzwandile Buthelezi, explores composition, improvisation and the grey area in between. (Supplied)
AS SHAMS

A place called home: Jazz and the new normal at the National Arts Festival

Several jazz offerings at the virtual festival focus on journeys and identity

  • Gwen Ansell
5 min read
Blistering energy: The long-awaited second album from the BLK JKS (pictured above with collaborator Morena Leraba), was recorded in three days at Downtown Studios. (Brett Rubin)
BLK JKS

‘Abantu: Before Humans’: The BLK JKS tread new turf

The second album from BLK JKS captures the band’s strengths, weaknesses and sonic vision

  • Kwanele Sosibo
6 min read
The price of ‘progress’: Actress Honey Makwakwa has to move out of August House
AUGUST HOUSE

Urban renewal’s bourgeois curse

As rental prices go up and neighbourhoods begin to look the same, artists nationwide are finding themselves out in the cold.

  • Katlego Mkhwanazi
9 min read
The BLK JKS’s Mpumelelo Mcata
BAND
Audio

Half-JKS are the new BLK

The BLK JKS have some new faces, but they’re still doing what made them great – breaking down genre barriers and building new sounds.

  • Katlego Mkhwanazi
14 min read
BLK JKS

The august house that fosters art

Welcome to August House, a relic of Doornfontein’s ?industrial past and home ?to some of South ?Africa’s top artists.

  • Percy Zvomuya
  • Katlego Mkhwanazi
12 min read