Tag Archives: African

Religious traditions gas South African jazz artist Tumi Mogorosi’s new album

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) South African poet Lesego Rampolokeng often writes about Black music in his poems. His collaborations with musicians on record are rarer […]

Honor Juneteenth this weekend with a conventional African dance showcase devoted to the mighty calabash | Leisure

If you walked by Mulberry Arts Studios in the past couple of weeks, there’s a chance you heard the sound of drums. Not just any drums — traditional African drums, called djembe, that are so captivating that if you stopped paying attention for just a moment, you may have mistaken the rhythm for your own heartbeat. […]

In an business dominated by California and Europe, Branwar Wines builds its area of interest with South African wines

In 1997, Wayne Luckett, then a Southwestern Bell engineer, moved his family to Johannesburg, South Africa, for a job assignment that lasted 5½ years and led to an appreciation, if not devotion, to the country’s fine wines. When he left, he returned to Houston with what he thought was a two-year supply of his favorite […]