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Thursday March 12, 2015, The Gazette 7 Events: Music Lebogang Rasethaba and Spoek Mathambo. Picture: Isady This Saturday, the Rio Cinema in Dalston will be hosting a special screening of Future Sound of Mzansi, the highly acclaimed musical documentary directed by Soweto-born performance artist and musician Spoek Mathambo (who will be running a post- screening Q&A) and filmmaker and cinematographer Lebogang Rasethaba. A fascinating insight into South Africa’s cultural landscape via electronic music, the film features interviews with many emerging and established artists such as DJ/ promoter Rock Silver, Naked Boys, Black Coffee, Felix Laband, Krushed & Sorted, Okmalumkoolkat, and many more. All the artists who are interviewed in this lively documentary explain that music such as Ogom (house music from Durban) or the superfast dance beat Makwaya, or the strive to create something completely new can be made with accessible technology. The days of unaffordable studio costs are long gone – great music is coming out of South Africa and being heard around the world. The screening starts at 11.30pm. For tickets, visit riocinemaonline.org.uk Sounds of South Africa come to Rio B lues music champions the rabid underdogs of society: Son House, Big Bill Broonzy, Howlin’ Wolf and all those dastardly outlaws. At over six foot, built like an ox, and with “funk” and “soul” tattooed across his knuckles, you can easily picture London’s Rag ‘N’ Bone Man rising from the Mississippi swamps – a bold, new boogeyman with a holler like hot buttered rum. Loaded with refined influences, the musician has been a prolific underground name for a couple of years now, honing a ferocious live reputation through guitar wielding solo performances and as the resident vocalist of rap’s Rum Committee. On Tuesday March 24 he will be coming to Scala armed with the songs from his debut album, Wolves – his first release through independent label ‘Best Laid Plans’. Owing to that moment when his blues and beats worlds collided, the record’s sound mixes an artistic dualism of old and new, packing an eruptive mixture of hip hop and electronic thunder with an extra coating of soul. He may have honed his trade underground, but this release marks the Rag ‘N’ Bone Man stepping out of the shadows. Visit scala.co.uk Rag ‘N’ Bone Man steps into the light Rag ‘N’ Bone Man. Picture: Gregory Nolan

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Thursday March 12, 2015, The Gazette 7

Events: Music

Lebogang Rasethaba and Spoek Mathambo. Picture: Isady

This Saturday, the Rio Cinema in Dalston will be hosting a special screening of Future Sound of Mzansi, the highly acclaimed musical documentary directed by Soweto-born performance artist and musician Spoek Mathambo (who will be running a post-screening Q&A) and filmmaker and cinematographer Lebogang Rasethaba.

A fascinating insight into South Africa’s cultural landscape via electronic music, the film features interviews with many emerging and established artists such as DJ/promoter Rock Silver, Naked Boys, Black Coffee, Felix Laband, Krushed & Sorted, Okmalumkoolkat, and many more.

All the artists who are interviewed in this lively documentary explain that music such as Ogom (house music from Durban) or the superfast dance beat Makwaya, or the strive to create something completely new can be made with accessible technology. The days of unaffordable studio costs are long gone – great music is coming out of South Africa and being heard around the world.

The screening starts at

11.30pm. For tickets, visit

riocinemaonline.org.uk

Sounds of South Africa come to Rio

Blues music champions the rabid underdogs of society: Son House, Big Bill

Broonzy, Howlin’ Wolf and all those dastardly outlaws.At over six foot, built like an ox, and with “funk” and “soul” tattooed across his knuckles, you can easily picture London’s Rag ‘N’ Bone Man rising from the Mississippi swamps – a bold, new boogeyman with a holler like hot buttered rum.Loaded with refined influences, the musician has been a prolific underground name for a couple of years now, honing a ferocious live reputation through guitar wielding solo performances and as the resident vocalist of rap’s Rum Committee.On Tuesday March 24 he will be coming to Scala armed with the songs from his debut album, Wolves – his first release through independent label ‘Best Laid

Plans’.Owing to that moment when his blues and beats worlds collided, the record’s sound mixes an artistic dualism of old and new, packing an eruptive mixture of hip hop and electronic thunder

with an extra coating of soul. He may have honed his trade underground, but this release marks the Rag ‘N’ Bone Man stepping out of the shadows.

Visit scala.co.uk

Rag ‘N’ Bone Man steps into the light

Rag ‘N’ Bone Man. Picture: Gregory Nolan