Browsing Month 'February, 2008'
As I’m writing the first Secession Records update for 2008, Secession’s 10th year, I’m listening to the festive sounds of Kaapse Klopse, a kind of music indigenous to Cape Town, and generally performed during what is locally known as the Coon Carnival. Rolling drums include a snare, bass and toms. Trombones and other horns play [...]
It was the watermelon and fresh lime juice that first attracted me to Lino, a small cafe situated on a veranda down a side street off the main road of Kalk Bay, Cape Town. It didn’t profess to have the “best coffee” in the Bay, but it did list a “long black” on their chalk [...]
Here’s a not so good photo of the oil-can guitar I’d seen at the African Music Store. Chris Rainer, a musician from Cape Town now living in Melbourne said, “those oil can guitars are pretty cool yes. good price too here they’ re about 800 dollars. they’re handmade actually just outside cape town.” Given they’re [...]
Am now in Cape Town central checking out the fun zones which I’m astonished to find are utterly filled with tourists! I hadn’t expected Cape Town to be a destination of such repute to draw so many pastel colours to it! Irksome! A less than welcome honey pot for the street sellers, beggars and homeless… [...]
Composed whilst walking over Robben Island, on the ferry back to Cape Town, in a car to Cape Point and finally in Chartfield Guest House, Kalk Bay, Feb 2008. You rise from the sea suspended between it and the sky above and below where poets have trawled… You have held the mighty and the fallen, [...]
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