World Music: Max Mnthambo, "Migrant Workers"
(South Africa) Singer Max Mnathmbo is also known as Shaluza Max, and here he is in the company of some truly formidable musicians from South Africa and beyond, most notably Zim Ngqawana, the late Moses Molelekwa, Airto Moreira and Valerie Naranjo. The song is a fragment of a jam session, and shows how a very simple melody was spontaneously re-grooved and worked up by the various musicians, The video is equally collage-like, and doesn't attempt to convey a story, but rather to present a series of related images as abstract as the music itself.
(South Africa) Singer Max Mnathmbo is also known as Shaluza Max, and here he is in the company of some truly formidable musicians from South Africa and beyond, most notably Zim Ngqawana, the late Moses Molelekwa, Airto Moreira and Valerie Naranjo. The song is a fragment of a jam session, and shows how a very simple melody was spontaneously re-grooved and worked up by the various musicians, The video is equally collage-like, and doesn't attempt to convey a story, but rather to present a series of related images as abstract as the music itself.
