Results for "Tlale Makhene"

Tlale Makhene

Late Bloomer

By Thembinkosi Mavimbela

Label: Unit Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Chapman's Peak; Love Drive; Better Not to Show; All In or Nothing; Chance; Gloomy Lies; Family Gathering; One Night in Hamburg; Ngelosi.

Homecoming Revisited

By Benjamin Jephta

Label: Akustik Elekrik Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Prayer for... (revisited); Prayer for Ada (revisited); The Blessing; Still I Rise (part 1) (revisited); Still I Rise (part 2) (revisited); One for the Plein (revisited); Homecoming (part 1) (revisited); Homecoming (part 2) (revisited); Be Strong (revisited).

Benjamin Jephta: Homecoming Revisited

by Dan Bilawsky
December 15, 2025

At 22 years of age, the up-and-coming Cape Town-reared bassist Benjamin Jephta introduced himself to the wider world via Homecoming (Self Produced, 2015), an engrossing debut featuring South African standouts like tenor saxophonist Sisonke Xonti, trumpeter Marcus Wyatt, pianist Kyle Shepherd, drummer Sphelelo Mazibuko and vocalist Spha Mdlalose.  A decade later, he gives us Homecoming Revisted, re- envisioning that ...

Enhlizweni - Song Stories From My Heartland

By Steve Dyer

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2024
Track listing: Heartland; Kindred Spirits; TransAtlantic; Inyembezi; Ihlasele; Barren soil (land without opportunity); Falling trees in the forest; Phola; Uyivile; Senzeni na?.

Sam Tshabalala: Returning Home

by Seton Hawkins
May 27, 2019

The late 1970s saw a surge of extraordinary musical creativity in South Africa. Driven in part by a changing political climate reflecting the youth-led Soweto uprising of 1976, a younger generation of South African artists harnessed the arts to give voice to a new chapter in the anti-apartheid struggle. Indeed, rising ensembles like Movement ...

Thandi Ntuli: On Exile

by Seton Hawkins
June 28, 2018

South African pianist, composer, and vocalist Thandi Ntuli entered 2018 not with a bang, but with a thermonuclear blast. At the close of 2017, she had been selected as the recipient of the 2018 Standard Bank Young Artist Award in Jazz, anointing her as the latest figure in an incredible lineage of South African ...