The Brother Moves On ft Nobuhle Ashanti @ Zeitz Mocaa

ABOUT

Internationally-acclaimed outfit The Brother Moves On exist in a powerful lineage of protest music and in the role that sound and music has in combating the everyday struggles of life. After their exceptional 2021 album Tolika Mtoliki which rebirthed classic South African music and messages into a stunning collection that made Apple Music’s Top Releases list the band are ready to release their sophomore full album of originals in a releases entitled $/he Who Feeds You Owns You. This album is due for premiere in November 2022 at the London and Berlin Jazz Festivals and the band are due to tour the album in October 2022 in South Africa prior to such premiere. The band truly believe that the music must touch home first.

The Brother Moves On were named after Brother Mouzone, the sharply dressed enforcer from The Wire, began as a DIY collective of visual and performance artists rehearsing in family bedrooms and lounges. This genesis shines through in the creative way they draw from past, present and future in their phenomenal live shows, and in masterful resistance music that heals and challenges in equal measure. The band released two independent albums from the first half of the 2010s A New Myth and The Golden Wake, the former re-released on vinyl in 2020 as part of a Shabaka Hutchings curation for Joyful Noise Records(US). Their new album is being released in October 2022 on Shabaka Hutchings new label Native Rebels Recordings(UK) with the Brother Moves On being the third artist signed to the label.

For this performance of the Brother Moves On invite pianist Nobuhle Ashanti as a special guest, to return to the sonic manifestations created by Siyabonga Mthembu & Nobuhle Ashanti in conversation with INVOCATIONS #1, a small gathering at Zeitz MOCAA that connected a special cohort of artists and thinkers in March 2022. As an extension of that initial meditation, this performance invites you to sense aural histories via resonance, to know that records of oceanic affiliation - as people of water - exist yet perhaps they need to be invoked and sounded.

Bass & vox :Ayanda Zalekile 

Drums & vox: Simphiwe Tshabalala 

Guitar and vox: Zelizwe Mthembu 

Vox : Siyabonga Mthembu 

Flute and alto sax: Mthunzi Mvubu 

Keys and vox: Nobuhle Ashanti 

Clarinet and tenor sax: Muhammad Dawjee 

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