What makes the collaboration so satisfying is the shared skill of both Rampolokeng and Mogorosi in signifying. And now the track Where Are the Keys? on South African drummer and composer Tumi Mogorosi’s fourth outing: Group Theory: Black Music. And his Tears for Marikana on Salim Washington’s album, Sankofa. There was the casette-only 1994 African Axemen collaboration with Zimbabwean Louis Mhlanga and a stellar crew of other pan-African guitarists. His collaborations with musicians on record are rarer but always remarkable. South African poet Lesego Rampolokeng often writes about Black music in his poems. Blues … Black … Darker than grey/ Creation sounds Gold Reef Mine rockfall crush-sounds/ Guitar-string gun-spit tear flesh/ Black sonic science/ Darkest Acoustics … (from Where Are The Keys? on Group Theory: Black Music)
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