Africa Is a Country

Music Break. Simphiwe Dana

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Music Break. Simphiwe Dana

By
Tom Devriendt

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Does it matter whether we know where a music video was shot? Probably not, but watching this first clip for Simphiwe Dana’s new album Kulture Noir, I can’t help but stare at the steel barred windows of the police holding cells in the background. Daily, around that corner, you find people on the sidewalk exchanging messages with their imprisoned friends or family members.  It thus makes for a weird block party in Cape Town’s City Bowl. Fortunately, there is the music. That’s London-based South African bandleader Adam Glasser on the harmonica, by the way.

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