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Benguela

Brydon Bolton (double bass), Alex Bozas (guitar), Ross Campbell (drums) Benguela have been playing improvised music together for over fifteen years and have just successfully crowd funded their 5th full length album, due for release in early 2014. Every show they play is a spur of the moment creative cesspool that straddles both the ambient and angular. Their collaboration with Tony Cox won the SAMA award for Best Instrumental Album. They have also collaborated with cultural anarchist Koos Kombuis and internationally renowned poet Breyten Breytenbach. They have played most of the music festivals around the country more than once, including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Oppikoppi, Splashy Fen, Up The Creek and the Standard Bank Grahamstown Arts Festival as part of the New Music Indaba.

 The name Benguela was taken from the cold current running up the West Coast of Southern Africa and reflects both the flowing nature of the music as well as being geographically representative of where the band came together and the climate in which they live.

 “People think of improvised music as Jazz because it has been marketed as Jazz

Benguela

January 31, 2020

Album: Yuri Turchyn+GRUPO YURI
By Yuri Turchyn
Label: Lucky Bird
Released: 2009
Duration: 04:51

Benguela: Cape Town Improv Trio

by Mick Raubenheimer
November 28, 2017

The ambient, chugging drone becomes slow frothing waves on which a misty guitar loop bobs. The ocean scape is cloudy--blurred browns and deep, shifting blues. The droning bass strings become clear as they pluck into focus, percussion slipping in like sudden, calculated sprays of foam. Alex Bozas' guitar introduces matt flashes, like sampled photographs of urban ...

Adrift

By Benguela

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Digging a Hole: No. 3450; HagBeard; Adrift; Eshowe Cicadas; The Great Rift; Megazostrodon.

Bush Radio Live

By Benguela

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Track listing: Lost Frequencies I; Lost Frequencies II; Lost Frequencies III.

Black Southeaster

By Benguela

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010
Track listing: Cumulo Nimbus; Subduction; Black Southeaster; Achilles; Neap; Killer Frog Fungus; Pacific Gyre; Meridian; Moschops; Spitzkop

Sui

By Benguela

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2003
Track listing: Southern Right; The Shunt Dynamo; Speed Queen; Beating Round The Bush; Six Strings And A Bucket; Chewing The Cud

Digital Inability

By Benguela

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2001
Track listing: Afterthought; Rob4; Sleepwalk; Eastcity; Jesus Takes The Cake; Xnic; Pink Pork Noise; Bushmatic; Hell's Teeth; Digital Inability; Ganda Ganda; One More And We've Got Them; Paper Weight.

Sputnik

By Benguela

Label: Self Produced
Released: 1998
Track listing: Sleep Sleepless; Where Aloes Hold The Earth; Hypnotic; Wait; Texture Of Memory; Telephone Room; Sputnik (The Black One); Hit For Looking; Camissa Special; Zvi's TV; Tak Taki Da.