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Big Announcement!!! ‘In the Spirit of Ntu’ won ‘Best Jazz Album’ at the prestigious @TheSAMAs I’m thankful. In a short space of time this record has spoken to people’s hearts and earned lots of accolades including the Metro Awards (South Africa), Edison Jazz Awards (Netherlands), Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (Germany) and now SAMA (South Africa) Big love to the team on the album: Jaleel Shaw Robin Fassie Linda Sikhakhane Omagugu Makhathini Dylan Tabisher Gontse Jnsq Makhene Stephen de Souza Dane Paris Anna Widauer Ezra Mokgope Peter Pearlson Martel Chapman Todd Whitelock Christi Van Der Colff Many thanks to @bluenoterecords and @UMGSA for believing in the project. And like Bhuti @khwela_step once said; “In the Spirit of Ntu, we believe” (thanks once again for attending the awards ceremony on behalf of our family). Finally, a big congratulations to the nominees in this category: Mthunzi Mvubu @LindaSikhakhane @ThandiNtuli and Mabuta (check their albums out) Makwande, nikwenze nakwabanye ♥️🕯️🛖

You start, over time, to understand that you live in these multiple universes and pluriversalities, and in a sense, you are stepping in and out of different places. And this is what improvisation is about, about what I think of as liminality. And liminality is this paradigm of not knowing. It comes through this modality of surrender. This posture of rejection is one of the most critical things for my practice – the letting go, the sacrifice – because to improvise, you have to push to not knowing anything. And this is when you discover something. So, it is liberating to think about improvisation in the jazz context but incurring in African methodologies, cosmologies, and creation stories. Because it goes beyond the chords, the sequences, and the rhythms, it becomes an entirely other practice. It's a way to liberate those very tools. Like what does even a G7 look like as a color? For me, that opens up a more interesting question. Nduduzo Makhathini afropop.org/articles/nduduzo… – at Durban, South Africa