music for a friday morning

If you haven't seen it yet, this is the music video, Sunset Ribbon, created by Levi's for AIDS awareness starring a host of SA's hottest talent - it's a sweet sentimental video, but mostly it's really cool to see all these people in one place. Artists include: Karen Zoid, Arno Carstens, Loyiso, Chris Chameleon, Louise Carver and at least two bands I don't recognise. If you know who they are, please let me know :)

[edit: Nadja tells me two of the other bands featured are Flat Stanley and Fokofpolisiekar - thanks Nadja! *colour me embarrassed for not knowing em*]

[edit 2: Nadja has asked around, and band three is Malaika. See what you can do with a little pooling of resources :) ]

enjoy!

karma chameleon

A new favourite live performer! I love this - being able to find new acts that you really enjoy and can see over and over. The latest one is Chris Chameleon.
You may remember him as the guy who wore dresses and make-up in the band BOO!, but all that's changed. Not that it was a bad thing. I just think Chris may have found his own groove now. We went to see him perform a while back at a theatre in Pretoria. Loved it! He did the poems of Ingrid Jonke (yes, you HAVE heard of her - think back to school) and he gave them a life I never saw before while hanging over an old textbook. He breathes in to them. He introduces one song as "one of Ingrid Jonke's saddest poems of loss", and promptly launches in the liveliest vocal acrobatics ever!
And he really is an amazing vocalist! The things that man can do with his throat! At one point I really thought the sound effects had kicked in, but it was all him - just him, his mic and his guitar. "I know - talented tongue" he says smiling...

If you get a chance to see him, I recommend you do - you won't regret it, and you may find something beautiful you never knew was so close.