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  Curio-Shop Afro-Motif Music: Who Will Rid Us Of This Sad Sight?

  02 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments

  To get to my mother’s desk I had to walk through a curio shop. It was one of those dreadfully cheesy African curio shops, with the carved wooden and stone animals, the beads and the bowls, like you find at any South African airport, the Moyo restaurants and the Durban beachfront. I have that exact same feeling (as if I’m back in that curio shop) when I come across certain music videos made by South African bands. What is with this new trend with our bands who think that by merely smearing white face paint across their videos it will make them mysterious and exotic?

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• You’re Going To Want To See Spoek Mathambo’s “Control” [Video]

  23 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

  So hey, I think this is the coolest think I’ve seen today – the music video to glam-rapper Spoek Mathambo’s reinterpretation of Joy Division’s ‘She’s Lost Control,’ shot in Langa, Cape Town, and directed by crazy influential photographer Pieter Hugo.

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