Sibusile Xaba
Charismatic guitar savant Sibusile Xaba reframes maskandi and the avant garde into his own humanist manifesto.
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.
Maskandi, malombo, the desert blues and jazz all figure in Sibusile Xaba's expansive vocabulary, albeit through a magnetic individual filter.
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We truly had a good time creating the music we're sharing with you today, it was like old friends acquainted again. We are what we connect and create, what we think is a warm offering to sooth many hearts, bring joy to many, comfort and warmth to who listens to it. We both believe music is a gift that is to be shared with all and our collaboration emphasized that unity is the one tangible solution not only for us as people but all of existence and our beautiful planet.
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