5.1 Surround Sound Music & Video – Continental Drift on 3BBR & CRN – Australian Television – Paintings – Design – Cartoons – Animation – Sculpture – Woodcraft
Broadcast
A new release from the Melbourne jazz outfit Afrospace Interchange sent me down a South African rabbit hole, to unearth music with connections to Zulu gospel singers and the horrors of apartheid.
Playlist
ARTIST
Title [Dur.]
Album (Year)
BHOLOJA
Touch from Heaven [6:20]
Imphilo (2023)
AFROSPACE INTERCHANGE
African Marketplace [5:40]
Old Plates (2025)
Abdullah IBRAHIM
Whoza Mtwana [6:02]
African Marketplace (1980)
RISHILE GUMBOOT DANCERS of SOWETO
Umona [3:38]
Rishile Gumboot Dancers of Soweto (1998)
LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO
Rain Beautiful Rain [2:22]
Favourites
The SPECIAL FIVE
Nangu Lostosti [3:35]
Various Artists: Soweto Street Music (1984)
The HOLY CROSS CHOIR
Qiniselani Nina Mawhawe (Stay strong, Nina Mawhawe) [3:04]
Mabawel’ Ijordani (1986)
Machanic MANYERUKE and the PURITANS
Kana Vatsvene Vopinda [3:48]
Machanic Manyeruke and the Puritans (1986)
Guy BUTTERY, Mohd Amjad KHAN & Muddasir KHAN
Raag Yaman [8:09]
One Morning in Gurgaon (2021)
Fabio BERGAMINI
Akshara [6:20]
7 Portais (Seven Portals) (2024)
João SELVA
Tambor Chamou [4:13]
Onda (2025)
Ruth HAZLETON
The Returning (Selkie) [4:09]
Heronbones (due for release on 29 Sep 2025)
The NORTH WIND
An Pangur Bán / Pride of Rockchapel [5:11]
The North Wind (2025)
Katayoun GOUDARZI
A Thread [10:00]
Will You? (2017)
ERINAKI
Leave Later [2:33]
Einai Arga (It's Late) (2023)
ESTUDIANTINA of MELBOURNE
As Pethanes Na Glitona [3:11]
Τα παιδιά της γειτονιάς - Ta Paidia tis gitonas (Children of the neighbourhood) (2024)
VANGELIS
Movement 1 [17:50]
Soil Festivities (1984)
Theme: Mark Isham — Nanawatai Pt.2 — The Beast (1988)
