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‘Music is older than words.’ - Bheki Mseleku

Joined March 2021
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'We shall play the indigenous jazz and not copy the polished kind of westernised music' -- Julian Bahula of the Malombo Jazz Makers -- a second exemplary @WorksTapestry reissue (from 1969) bit.ly/3N1GEt4
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The Wire's weekly radio show broadcasts tonight 9pm @ResonanceFM. This week Meg Woof plays X.NTE + Elevation, Saadet Türköz & Beat Keller, Katalin Ladik, Unda Fluxit, Sheng Jie & Shen Jing, AshTreJinkins, Boobs Of Doom, Bheki Mseleku + more: resonancefm.com / 104.4FM LDN
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Tapestry Works retweeted
This is such a proud moment - delighted to be able to share this music and visuals with the wider world! 🌀 #thespiralisvital 🌀
My New single 🌀The Spiral🌀 Ft @AfronautZu and @AhnanseOfficial Is out now!! Check out the music video Directed by the incredible: Roisino & Eden youtu.be/IQnKF_WNpHQ Link to Stream here: mrthn.fm/theon_the_spiral 🎹 Prod by @Emre_Ram
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An incredible project. Breaking down barriers and borders.
ANNOUNCING: M3H008/TRC008 | ON OUR OWN CLOCK A collaboration between 14 musical kindred spirits from Dakar, Johannesburg & London. Recorded a year ago, during lockdown in July & August 2020. Listen: mushroom-hour.lnk.to/DuneDan… ALBUM OUT: 03 September 2021 #NANA #OnOurOwnClock
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.In case you missed it - you can listen to ⁦@TheonCross⁩ talking influences on ⁦@BBCRadio3⁩. And plenty of other great music too!
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I feel really honoured, @AppleMusic has just published a ‘Nduduzo Makhathini Essentials’ comprising of all my 9 albums and more released between 2014 - 2020 Find all your favourite songs in one place. Link: music.apple.com/za/playlist/… Pic: @itsarthurdlamini
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Epic & intense in places, with beautiful rolling grooves too: Bheki Mseleku's journey through exile to 'Beyond the Stars' -- powerful, fine 'conduit for the healing energy of music to flow into the world', on new label @WorksTapestry. Listen bit.ly/3h0Uk8a
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Jazz piano great Bheki Mseleku remembered by longtime pal Eugene Skeef who discusses the excellent new release Beyond The Stars out now on Tapestry Works: theperlichpost.blogspot.com/…
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"He once saw his hero, McCoy Tyner, playing in a real dive. This threw Bheki: he couldn’t understand how someone so gifted had to play in a venue where he was disrespected and unappreciated," writes Rafs Mayet ow.ly/NLtA50EwXQ8 #BeyondTheStars @WorksTapestry
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Second weekend of Jazz appreciation month on TheKJazzShow on KofifiFM 97.2, Thank you to our guests Neil Gonsalves & Thembelihle Dunjana for the privilege 🙏🏽
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The vinyl copies of Bheki Mseleku's recently released solo piano album, 'Beyond The Stars' . @WorksTapestry - masters of manifestation linktr.ee/Tapestry_Works Thanks for the photos: @sphiwemhlambi Rashid Lombard Cedric Nunn Gareth Lockrane
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Music educator and poet, Eugene Skeef produced the sessions for "Beyond The Stars" by Bheki Mseleku. This album marks the first new music from Mseleku in 20 years and is 13 years posthumous. #TAOS with @BrendaSisane
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The #KJazzShow explores this gem, come Sunday. You want to be there.
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The Wire's Francis Gooding launches new label Tapestry Works (@WorksTapestry) w/ a previously unreleased solo piano studio recording by South African multi-instrumentalist Bheki Mseleku: tapestryworks.bandcamp.com/a… Photo: Bheki Mseleku in The Wire 99, May 1992, by Dominic Turner.
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