South Africa: Mabandla's 12-Track Generous Exploration of Love

Bongeziwe Mabandla's new album explores a love story, from start to end, alongside parallel questions of memory.

To watch Bongeziwe Mabandla step onto stage is to witness the transmutation of the abstract into the physical. The 32-year-old's performances are probably best described as conjurings: a kind of magic that sees Mabandla act as an interlocutor between his listener and the wide range of emotion (loss, rebirth, love) that his music inspires.

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