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At this Point in Time: Voices in Volumes
Herbie Tsoaeli
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
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Tracks
Wozani nonke Sizothandaza; Alone On Your Own; Abadala Baholo; Umntu; East Gugs Skomline to Khaltsha; Palama; Backyard Background; When Times Are Good; Woza Moya (At This Point in Time); Siwa Sivuka; Siyabulela; Abadala Baholo (Single Release); Siwa Sivuka (Single Release).
Personnel
Herbie Tsoaeli
bass, acoustic
Gontse Makhene
percussionAdditional Personnel / Information
Gontse Makhene and Sisonke Xonti
Album Description
“At this Point in Time: Voices in Volumes is Herbie Tsoaeli’s second studio album. To create mood and anticipation, the songs in this album utilise varied musical patterns and clusters. With arrangements that allow one instrument to play tacet before other players and voices come in, the bassist is able to create interplays of musical envelopes. While the recording contains variation in style, with some songs melancholic and others joyous, At this Point in Time: Voices in Volumes is rooted in heritage. Sometimes there is a need to pause, sit still, reflect and reconnect. In the middle of this stillness, the role of artists is to turn up the volume of their voices against ills in society. ”With some songs melancholic and others joyous, At this Point in Time is rooted in heritage.” - Dinga Sikwebu “An exploration of the realities of black personhood, At this Point in Time is an extension of Herbie Tsoaeli’s African Time philosophy.” - Kelebogile Motswatswa “African Time necessitates a rethinking of our notions of time. It speaks to the temporality of freedom - that colourful negotiation between the present and past. Herbie Tsoaeli’s approach is, therefore, an expression of a simultaneously modern and ancient... confluence in music, which is culturally bound to the historical mission of ushering in a different time and sensibility. Ultimately, African Time is a set of value systems expressed in and through the music. Contrary to the contemporary injunctions that have reduced our cultural expressions to mere decorative instruments of submission and pleasure, African Time elaborates the need for social responsibility and moral rectitude. It heightens our senses by the very way it occupies multiple temporal registers in time and space. So, in the face of public pressure to hastily move on and forget, African Time asks us to pause and reflect. To reassess - to remember! African Time inhabits the present, haunts it, as a maligned conscience.” - Athi Joja “Our sound is hours sound” - Herbie Tsoaeli
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