{"id":128375,"date":"2024-03-29T18:58:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/stories\/afropollination\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T15:38:52","slug":"afropollination","status":"publish","type":"pamlongform","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/stories\/afropollination\/","title":{"rendered":"Afropollination: Residency Power in the Global Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_0aed6da50462d07b5a4ce79b843a3c76\" id=\"longform-section-block_0aed6da50462d07b5a4ce79b843a3c76\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <video poster=\" https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Chrisman-Clip-Cover.jpg \" class=\"desktop-video w-full h-full object-cover h-screen w-screen left-0\" muted loop playsinline><source src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Clip-Chrisman.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><video poster=\" https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Chrisman-Clip-Cover.jpg \" class=\" mobile-video w-full h-full object-cover h-screen w-screen left-0\" muted loop playsinline><source src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Clip-Chrisman.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-x-large-font-size\">Afropollination: Residency Power in the Global Underground<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"Intro\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_f023ce0cabd4d3472f639293018df7a8\" id=\"longform-section-block_f023ce0cabd4d3472f639293018df7a8\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong><strong>This is a story of explosive creativity, diehard cultural exchange, and avant-garde community from Kampala to Hamburg.<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/author\/christianaskin\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"wp-block-post-author-name__link\">Christian Askin<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-03-29T18:58:28+02:00\">29 March 2024<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_5a2f420324afabf6fceadb6cf8664e97\" id=\"longform-section-block_5a2f420324afabf6fceadb6cf8664e97\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">In 2022 and 2023 Piranha Arts, in collaboration with Nyege Nyege, organized two six-week residencies in Kampala, Uganda and Hamburg, Germany. Thirty artists from across Africa and Germany came together to deconstruct and reimagine their art for a new generation of creatives. Practicing, performing, and exchanging in unlikely places, across languages and hemispheres, this residency program attacked ideas of appropriation, heritage, collaboration, and creation. Beyond difficulty and drama, past the ecstatic noise of festivals, this is a story of explosive creativity, diehard cultural exchange, and avant-garde community, from Kampala to Hamburg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">When Nyege Nyege met Piranha Arts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Nyege Nyege and its roster of 50 artists teamed up with Piranha Arts, a Berlin independent creative agency, after meeting at&nbsp;the 2019 WOMEX exposition in Tampere, Finland. It was during this festival showcase, known for giving light to the emerging global underground, that the two began a discussion that would trigger a massive movement of people and ideas. A residency program, between Kampala and Hamburg, with stopovers at festivals and an expanded vision of creative arts. Neither Nyege nor Piranha were new to the idea of residencies, but the scale and ambition of the exchange was unprecedented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Nyege Nyege is a Uganda based collective that has been giving audiences the \u201cuncontrollable urge to dance\u201d since its founding in 2013. A record label, booking agency, and festival organizer, Nyege Nyege has been pushing hardcore noise around the world both at their local festival along the Nile and across the electronic avant-garde\u2019s most prestigious stages.&nbsp;Piranha Arts, on the other hand, is known for the Karneval der Kulturen in Berlin, a million strong annual street parade going since 1996. Piranha also pilots the WOMEX music showcase, conference and expo and runs the independent record &amp; publishing label<a href=\"https:\/\/www.piranha-arts.com\/#piranha_records\"> Piranha<\/a>. It\u2019s a match of like-minded structures pushing culture forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the idea was set in motion, a roster of artists were selected by Nyege Nyege from both within their record label and across the German electronic landscape. From there, groups are made, schedules are laid out, planes, trains, and buses are boarded heading for Kampala or Hamburg. No specific final products are defined, collaborative groups are either self initiated or suggested, but the constraints of the residency are manifest in the faces and spaces.&nbsp;In this case, a pink villa and a repurposed German fishing vessel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_5a2f420324afabf6fceadb6cf8664e97\" id=\"longform-section-block_5a2f420324afabf6fceadb6cf8664e97\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">Inside the Nyege Nyege villa<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Hidden down a small dirt road on the edge of Kampala is the Nyege Nyege villa. It&#8217;s a two story compound with a large garden, courtyard and plenty of space to relax and create. The afternoons are often warm and moist, the dusk light exaggerating the pink facade. Inside walls are plastered with posters of former parties or iconic in-house records. In the middle sits a \u201cwar room\u201d splattered with machines, microphones and adapters, where the Nyege team makes plans, sits in wait, or furiously scribbles to-do\u2019s onto a whiteboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_8662ae9a5edd7d6edd432681ef88db7d\" id=\"longform-section-block_8662ae9a5edd7d6edd432681ef88db7d\" class=\"section w-full relative grid grow-animate longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-white-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-white-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <img 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https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/villa-outside-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background\">Here, the artists work together on a chaotic schedule, music bursting from the rooms, and tagalongs coming and going with questions and ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" 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https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Villa-Courtyard-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Villa-Courtyard-661x496.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Villa-Courtyard-465x349.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Villa-Courtyard-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Villa-Courtyard.jpg\" class=\"block_7c006e01591dc5ddb089168891aeb049 mobile-img\" alt=\"mobile-image\" id=\"block_7c006e01591dc5ddb089168891aeb049\" 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https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Villa-Courtyard-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background\">In rare periods of calm, residents take pause in the courtyard, eat a meal, and brush away the ragtag group of stray dogs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"block_fc05e239c144f7fdda8b04bd196c7f32\" class=\"fadeInImageWrapper\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Villa-Studio.jpg\" class=\"block_fc05e239c144f7fdda8b04bd196c7f32 desktop-img\" alt=\"desktop-image\" 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quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"block_8b79b3b220a8d1b7263e92052a9f0dba\" class=\"fadeInImageWrapper\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/villa-outdoors.jpg\" class=\"block_8b79b3b220a8d1b7263e92052a9f0dba desktop-img\" alt=\"desktop-image\" id=\"block_8b79b3b220a8d1b7263e92052a9f0dba\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/villa-outdoors.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/villa-outdoors-759x569.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/villa-outdoors-1010x758.jpg 1010w, 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id=\"block_8b79b3b220a8d1b7263e92052a9f0dba\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nyege-villa-shade.png 1080w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nyege-villa-shade-759x1349.png 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nyege-villa-shade-1010x1796.png 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nyege-villa-shade-661x1175.png 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nyege-villa-shade-465x827.png 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nyege-villa-shade-375x667.png 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background\">A mix of language and habits flow in and around, often finishing with a nighttime drum circle or respite beneath a ficus tree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_5a2f420324afabf6fceadb6cf8664e97\" id=\"longform-section-block_5a2f420324afabf6fceadb6cf8664e97\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<p>For summer 2022 this is Phase 1\u2019s home base. It\u2019s where artists will spend weeks munching on their creative vision. Projects take their initial shape, all awaiting the explosion of beauty and chaos which would come to be the Nyege Nyege Festival at Itanda Falls.&nbsp;&#8220;<em>It&#8217;s pretty intense work, but it&#8217;s enriching,<\/em>&#8221; explains Pauline B\u00e9darida aka P\u00d6, a French-Ghanian artist and DJ, longtime Nyege Nyege collaborator, and Afropollination Swiss army knife. <em>&#8220;Seeing everyone together here in this place&#8230; it&#8217;s like family<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">Aboard the Stubnitz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other side of the world, sitting along the Elbe river in Hamburg, is the Motorship Stubnitz; an 80 meter long former East German fishing vessel transformed in 1992 into a roving platform for cultural exchange.&nbsp;Weighing in at over two and half thousand tons, the Stubnitz travels from its homeport Rostock around the Baltic and North Sea to cities like Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Newcastle, Hamburg, St. Petersburg, and London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_42213bde3d3a132252ee3099d352d9a6\" id=\"longform-section-block_42213bde3d3a132252ee3099d352d9a6\" class=\"section w-full relative grid grow-animate longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-white-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-white-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <video 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<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background\">Above deck one looks out at the industrial outskirts of South Hamburg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"block_8eaed92730511ae86e05aac9d8646fb9\" class=\"fadeInImageWrapper\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1028\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Bloomfeld-Inside-Stubnitz-copy.jpg\" class=\"block_8eaed92730511ae86e05aac9d8646fb9 desktop-img\" alt=\"desktop-image\" id=\"block_8eaed92730511ae86e05aac9d8646fb9\" 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h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background\">Inside, rack and pinion doors seal the noise, taking residents out of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"block_7c9840712f00901a9d08649232e19982\" class=\"fadeInImageWrapper\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1028\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Binghi-Stubnitz-copy.jpg\" class=\"block_7c9840712f00901a9d08649232e19982 desktop-img\" alt=\"desktop-image\" id=\"block_7c9840712f00901a9d08649232e19982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Binghi-Stubnitz-copy.jpg 3637w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Binghi-Stubnitz-copy-759x508.jpg 759w, 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https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3OK1-Syubnitz-Concert-2048x3061.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3OK1-Syubnitz-Concert-1440x2153.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3OK1-Syubnitz-Concert-661x988.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3OK1-Syubnitz-Concert-465x695.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3OK1-Syubnitz-Concert-375x561.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background\">In the middle, a massive room formerly used to store fish during long voyages out at sea, is now used for concerts and events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_e336d4acd1253babb17f801f2b082ad0\" id=\"longform-section-block_e336d4acd1253babb17f801f2b082ad0\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<p>Elsewhere, between the cooling pipes and control valves, one can find rehearsal rooms and collaborative spaces. Stubnitz volunteers maintain production studios and practice venues, and a chef prepares meals at all hours of the day and night.&nbsp;Squeezed away in these odd shapes is where Phase 2 of the residency takes place, ideas more masticated, dates in Berlin approaching, and a sense of residence fully in place.&nbsp;Between frigid cold and tropical heat, the scene is set, camp is made. Now comes the good work of creation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"Time to pollinate\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_b87ea83d105aed08eda3f52d162ab4b3\" id=\"longform-section-block_b87ea83d105aed08eda3f52d162ab4b3\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Time to pollinate&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In these strange and beautiful spaces the artists are brought together. But working across disciplines, cultural barriers, and often language, is no easy feat. It takes a sense of trust, patience and conviction in the benefit of collaboration. For this group, living in close proximity, expressing and experiencing each other\u2019s work first hand, the foundation was laid for a deep integration of creative hearts and minds. But challenges remain. Knowledge is bound. And it takes the nitty-gritty path of daily effort to traverse those lumps in the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For some the process is natural. Franco-Malian, Berlin-based artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DthKn7S2krk&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Astan Ka<\/a> paired with Rwandan multi-disciplinary artist Binghi during the Afropollination program. Both have an Afrofuturist vision colored to their own experience. On stage, the two performed at both Nyege Nyege (with the help of Thelma Ndebele aka Dormant Youth) in Uganda and aboard the Stubnitz. The vocal universe of Astan Ka and the thumping space of Binghi\u2019s productions create an expansive world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Binghi x Astan KA x Exoc\u00e9 - Afropollination Residency x Nyege Neyge x Stubnitz 2023\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-EQ3ZHzVKTk?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Astan Ka and Binghi perform on the Ms Stubnitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Astan Ka is a member of Berlin\u2019s Sonic Interventions collective and a creative visionary for \u201cgangsta jazz\u201d, a genre coined by Astan herself. When not performing for the band Asphalt Djelis, Astan is self-releasing work like her single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8WIYB9gAVUU?si=0GySZ6LTbPMkj8C3\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8WIYB9gAVUU?si=0GySZ6LTbPMkj8C3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charcoal<\/a>\u201d, rapping and singing in both French and English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Binghi is also a multi-talent. A self taught music producer exploring spiritual drum patterns, a DJ, and a visual artist, there\u2019s a vast creative well for her to tap into. Binghi also starred in the cult film <em>Neptune Frost<\/em>, under her real name,&nbsp;Cheryl Isheja, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and looks like much of Binghi\u2019s music might sound.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_a27d214c63af9e9bcf11e200e99708e1\" id=\"longform-section-block_a27d214c63af9e9bcf11e200e99708e1\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Binghi-Astan-1.jpeg\" class=\"desktop-img absolute top-0 w-full h-full object-cover invisible pointer-events-none lg:visible lg:pointer-events-autoh-screen w-screen left-0\" alt=\"desktop-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Binghi-Astan-1.jpeg 6000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Binghi-Astan-1-759x506.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Binghi-Astan-1-1010x673.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Binghi-Astan-1-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Binghi-Astan-1-1440x960.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Binghi-Astan-1-661x441.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Binghi-Astan-1-465x310.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Binghi-Astan-1-375x250.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/J-1-EN-copy.jpg\" class=\"mobile-img absolute top-0 w-full h-full object-cover visible lg:invisible pointer-events-auto lg:pointer-events-noneh-screen w-screen left-0\" alt=\"mobile-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/J-1-EN-copy.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/J-1-EN-copy-759x1349.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/J-1-EN-copy-1010x1796.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/J-1-EN-copy-661x1175.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/J-1-EN-copy-465x827.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/J-1-EN-copy-375x667.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-white-color has-text-color has-small-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">\u201c<em>We don\u2019t need to think too much about what we\u2019re gonna do. It\u2019s a pure experience. I wanna see where it takes us. I wanna feel the bass from the floor.<\/em>\u201d &#8211; Binghi<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_a8d3d52a0e890e1a27f7177a6efc776a\" id=\"longform-section-block_a8d3d52a0e890e1a27f7177a6efc776a\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background\">More than collaborators, the two became friends. Working in lockstep with joy and passion. During their time, the two produced and released a single entitled \u201cSacred Forest\u201d, notions of the natural and sacred essential in both artist&#8217;s creative vocabulary. The duo is an example of when residencies flow like water through existing inlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_5cccac42e94e9b9eecac0cd3fe3bf105\" id=\"longform-section-block_5cccac42e94e9b9eecac0cd3fe3bf105\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">Leaving the comfort zone<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">But convergence isn\u2019t always guaranteed. Sometimes one needs to carve the earth, and build a canal. For the residency duo of Afrorack, real name Bryan Bayana, and Jessica Ekomane, there was a greater chasm to cross.<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_3d4c8ea1537d154c7a8b37bd64203525\" id=\"longform-section-block_3d4c8ea1537d154c7a8b37bd64203525\" class=\"section w-full relative grid grow-animate longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack3-copy.jpg\" class=\"desktop-img absolute top-0 w-full h-full object-cover invisible pointer-events-none lg:visible lg:pointer-events-autoh-screen w-screen left-0\" alt=\"desktop-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack3-copy.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack3-copy-759x427.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack3-copy-1010x568.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack3-copy-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack3-copy-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack3-copy-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack3-copy-465x262.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack3-copy-375x211.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Afrorack-Synth-Mobile-copy.jpg\" class=\"mobile-img absolute top-0 w-full h-full object-cover visible lg:invisible pointer-events-auto lg:pointer-events-noneh-screen w-screen left-0\" alt=\"mobile-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Afrorack-Synth-Mobile-copy.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Afrorack-Synth-Mobile-copy-759x1349.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Afrorack-Synth-Mobile-copy-1010x1796.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Afrorack-Synth-Mobile-copy-661x1175.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Afrorack-Synth-Mobile-copy-465x827.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Afrorack-Synth-Mobile-copy-375x667.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Afrorack is a maverick. A Ugandan native, he built one of Africa\u2019s first DIY modular synthesizers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"block_797d26a001c8103f88d216a07a303ff9\" class=\"fadeInImageWrapper\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2.jpeg\" class=\"block_797d26a001c8103f88d216a07a303ff9 desktop-img\" alt=\"desktop-image\" id=\"block_797d26a001c8103f88d216a07a303ff9\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2.jpeg 2006w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2-759x1184.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2-1010x1576.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2-1440x2247.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2-661x1031.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2-465x726.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2-375x585.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2006\" height=\"3130\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2.jpeg\" class=\"block_797d26a001c8103f88d216a07a303ff9 mobile-img\" alt=\"mobile-image\" id=\"block_797d26a001c8103f88d216a07a303ff9\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2.jpeg 2006w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2-759x1184.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2-1010x1576.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2-1440x2247.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2-661x1031.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2-465x726.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack2-375x585.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Born of a personal curiosity, Afrorack would forage around repair shops, compile tutorials, and read circuit diagrams on the the internet in order to build his musical machines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"block_aa13e0926c8b1fa82f3d94c3031e2f44\" class=\"fadeInImageWrapper\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack.jpeg\" class=\"block_aa13e0926c8b1fa82f3d94c3031e2f44 desktop-img\" alt=\"desktop-image\" id=\"block_aa13e0926c8b1fa82f3d94c3031e2f44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack.jpeg 2075w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-759x1145.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-1010x1524.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-2048x3089.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-1440x2172.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-661x997.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-465x701.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-375x566.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2075\" height=\"3130\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack.jpeg\" class=\"block_aa13e0926c8b1fa82f3d94c3031e2f44 mobile-img\" alt=\"mobile-image\" id=\"block_aa13e0926c8b1fa82f3d94c3031e2f44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack.jpeg 2075w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-759x1145.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-1010x1524.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-2048x3089.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-1440x2172.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-661x997.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-465x701.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/afrorack-375x566.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">The result is a singular form of \u201cAfrican acid-house\u201d using the electronic sounds of the synths and the complex rhythms of his native Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_a8d3d52a0e890e1a27f7177a6efc776a\" id=\"longform-section-block_a8d3d52a0e890e1a27f7177a6efc776a\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-full wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio has-white-color has-text-color\">On the other hand is Jessica Ekomane. Jessica is a French-Cameroonian, Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist. Interested in mathematics, physics, and the nonlinear passage of time, Jessica\u2019s performances and productions are ambient and cathartic. Each composition contains numerous sound events that are different from each other, passing seamlessly or abruptly between textures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_acf82e15b66f59ae6241fe4daa1e5df6\" id=\"longform-section-block_acf82e15b66f59ae6241fe4daa1e5df6\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color sectionHasImgToLeft\" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane.jpg\" class=\"desktop-img absolute top-0 w-full h-full object-cover invisible pointer-events-none lg:visible lg:pointer-events-autow-full lg:w-1\/2 left-0 js--pinned-left\" alt=\"desktop-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-759x569.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-1010x758.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-661x496.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-465x349.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-Mobile-copy.jpg\" class=\"mobile-img absolute top-0 w-full h-full object-cover visible lg:invisible pointer-events-auto lg:pointer-events-nonew-full lg:w-1\/2 left-0 js--pinned-left\" alt=\"mobile-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-Mobile-copy.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-Mobile-copy-759x1349.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-Mobile-copy-1010x1796.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-Mobile-copy-661x1175.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-Mobile-copy-465x827.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Jessica-Ekomane-Mobile-copy-375x667.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper  fadeGroupeImageFifty imgToLeft\"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 two-columns w-full lg:w-1\/2 lg:justify-self-end\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent no-negative-margin \">\n            \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-white-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-full wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\">&#8220;<em>One thing we have in common is that we build things from scratch<\/em>.&#8221; &#8211; Jessica Ekomane &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_a8d3d52a0e890e1a27f7177a6efc776a\" id=\"longform-section-block_a8d3d52a0e890e1a27f7177a6efc776a\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-full wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio has-white-color has-text-color\">Two singular artists, each with an imposing aesthetic and identity&#8230; the process of collaboration takes energy and compromise. Nonetheless the two managed to squeeze out something special. Over time, Afrorack&#8217;s heavily percussive style and Jessica&#8217;s &#8220;non-linear sound&#8221; found a way to match. The effort culminated in a CTM (a Berlin music and visual arts event) performance that was received with much acclaim. Perhaps it was the tedious standards of top-tier creatives that blocked a feeling of immediate success, but <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tB_Uca3gO4w?si=ZituhVn6G2Xxptdm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">visuals shot by videographer Jan Moss<\/a> and interpreted by dancer FannyLove in Uganda show the promise of the two&#8217;s offbeat momentum. <\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_5cccac42e94e9b9eecac0cd3fe3bf105\" id=\"longform-section-block_5cccac42e94e9b9eecac0cd3fe3bf105\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\"><strong>Mutant creations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">For others the residency is a window into the unlikely engagements between far-off creatives. Take the trio of DJ Diaki, Zo\u00eb&nbsp;Mc Pherson, and Jay Mitta. One, a balani innovator, the other, a Berlin techno maverick, and the third Tanzanian singeli music pioneer.&nbsp;If there\u2019s anything these artists have in common it\u2019s the relentless pulsating rhythm of dance. And speed. Lots of speed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">The synthesized balafon music that DJ Diaki helped make famous from his Malian home country is high energy madness. Emerging in the late 90s in and around the capital city of Bamako, Diaki and his contemporaries were able to recreate troupes of 10-12 musicians on touch pads, synths and DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations). The result is a gritty electronic version of this trance inducing dance music that plays with the traditional balafon as well as elements of kuduro and coup\u00e9-decal\u00e9.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\" style=\"color:#ffffff\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1510\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/diaki1-1010x1510.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/diaki1-1010x1510.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/diaki1-759x1135.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/diaki1-2048x3062.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/diaki1-1440x2153.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/diaki1-661x988.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/diaki1-465x695.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/diaki1-375x561.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/diaki1.jpeg 2278w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">DJ Diaki aboard the Stubnitz<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Far to the South East is singeli music, a modern ancestor of taarab that\u2019s sped up, full of bass, and with tons of quirky electronic accents. Jay Mitta, who came up in Sisso Studios, one of the legendary singeli workshops tied to Nyege Nyege, is carrying the torch for the endless rhythms and performative displays of this emergent sensation. Classics like Mitta\u2019s 2018 <em>Tatizo Pesa <\/em>have become part of a soundtrack to the youth-led, block party-style movement that singeli embodies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Slap it together with the complex textures of French-Irish, Berlin-based spatial sound shaper Zo\u00eb&nbsp;Mc Pherson and her tastemaker techno and you have a mutant creation of explosive sound.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-white-color has-text-color is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWe send heavy stuff individually, but we\u2019re still listening to each other. That\u2019s what\u2019s beautiful.\u201d &#8211; Zoe McPherson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">If you\u2019re into pyrotechnics and polyrhythms <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zbTKbtOBHu8?feature=shared\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zbTKbtOBHu8?feature=shared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this amalgamation<\/a> is an obvious intrigue. Those braced and brave can roll into the chaos with a psychedelic appreciation. The artists themselves certainly didn\u2019t come out unscathed by the maddening power of each\u2019s sound.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Techno-balani? Future singeli? The volcanic features of triple influence are yet to be determined. But whether it\u2019s a synthesis of Afro-futurist visions, theoretic conflict between sound scientists, or collabs between mind bending super-troupes, the sum is a work of art, a statue of parts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_5a2f420324afabf6fceadb6cf8664e97\" id=\"longform-section-block_5a2f420324afabf6fceadb6cf8664e97\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pam.cosavostra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/3OK7-1010x752.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128096\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br>Supergroup 3OK (Dj Diaka, Zoe McPherson, and Jay Mitta) practice before a show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"Letting things bloom\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_db8f5d7aefb5d551d9587fe283edaaa3\" id=\"longform-section-block_db8f5d7aefb5d551d9587fe283edaaa3\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Letting things bloom<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Collaboration isn&#8217;t just throwing things against a wall to see what sticks. There must be a deliberate approach to sharing knowledge. Which isn\u2019t always symbiotic. At times, information must be explicit, didactic and pedagogical. Assumptions must be exorcized and artists need to become teachers of their craft, culture, and vision. While in Germany, Afropollination in collaboration with other festival partners, organized a series of workshops to allow artists to express their craft to other participants as well as the wider community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Menzi, a pioneer of South Africa\u2019s gqom music, hosted one such workshop at the CTM festival in Berlin, a meeting point for many international DJs and producers. A Durban native, Menzi has been on the forefront of South Africa\u2019s deep and dark club music, gqom. It\u2019s a sound that evokes maleficent spirits and the ominous supernatural. \u201c<em>Scary in an exciting way,<\/em>\u201d says Menzi to the workshop audience.&nbsp;Less understood and less trendy than its jazzy, housey counterpart, amapiano, gqom has a unique power within its muffled howls and shattering bass to move global club audiences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_271beeb3d7bc2e00fa60e1d80d417e60\" id=\"longform-section-block_271beeb3d7bc2e00fa60e1d80d417e60\" class=\"section w-full relative grid grow-animate longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full 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<\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background\">In Berlin, for the CTM festival, Menzi took the time to explain the origins of gqom and how he as a producer perceives its sound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"block_af315774e7416f00cdce7a56a9311760\" class=\"fadeInImageWrapper\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1018\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/menzi4.jpeg\" class=\"block_af315774e7416f00cdce7a56a9311760 desktop-img\" alt=\"desktop-image\" id=\"block_af315774e7416f00cdce7a56a9311760\" 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https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Menzi-Workshop-3-copy-759x1349.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Menzi-Workshop-3-copy-1010x1796.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Menzi-Workshop-3-copy-661x1175.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Menzi-Workshop-3-copy-465x827.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Menzi-Workshop-3-copy-375x667.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background\">Running through its outsider origins on cracked fruity loops software, it was a chance for the curious few to decrypt this darkside music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen50 lg:h-screen50\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_e336d4acd1253babb17f801f2b082ad0\" id=\"longform-section-block_e336d4acd1253babb17f801f2b082ad0\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<p>For the Afropollination experience, Menzi was paired with Berlin-based, French producer Debmaster. A prolific artist and producer for some of the most charismatic artists on the Nyege Nyege roster including MC Yallah and Aunty Rayzor, Debmaster has an experimental approach to hip-hop, 8bit, glitch music, among other left-field sounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowledge, in all its bits and pieces, was exchanged between the two producers. In its revelation a common thread is found. Often more in a feeling than the mechanics of things. Then, it&#8217;s on to the good work of reverse engineering mouse movements across digital workstations to uncover a universal zeitgeist. &#8220;<em>I think we&#8217;ve created a whole new genre,<\/em>&#8221; Debmaster laughs in the phosphorescent lights of the Stubnitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/debmasterMenzi10-copy-1010x670.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/debmasterMenzi10-copy-1010x670.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/debmasterMenzi10-copy-759x503.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/debmasterMenzi10-copy-2048x1358.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/debmasterMenzi10-copy-1440x955.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/debmasterMenzi10-copy-661x438.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/debmasterMenzi10-copy-465x308.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/debmasterMenzi10-copy-375x249.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/debmasterMenzi10-copy.jpg 3130w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_5a2f420324afabf6fceadb6cf8664e97\" id=\"longform-section-block_5a2f420324afabf6fceadb6cf8664e97\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Deconstructing singeli<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From Dar es Salaam, it was Jay Mitta&nbsp;who hosted a workshop of his own to present the aforementioned singeli music. With the help of Nyege Nyege and the prowess of some of its pioneers, including DJ Sisso, and the new school of talent like Maiko, singeli is making waves internationally. Sisso\u2019s <em>Sound of Sisso<\/em> is an international cult classic, with LPs sold out on tastemaker platforms like NTS Radio. Jay Mitta was also one of the first singeli artists to tour around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The joyful melodies and lightning fast beats are dance music at its finest. Upon first listen it\u2019s not the easiest genre to warm up to. Certainly not without the contagious spirit of singeli performers.&nbsp;Focused as much on the experience as the mechanics, singeli is a music often mixed live with drum samples programmed on computer keyboards via the free interface of Virtual DJ. This allows singeli DJs and producers to mix endless tracks with dynamic rhythms, continuing on far into the day and night.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"SISSO x MAIKO - AFROPOLLINATION - UGANDA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l8hpYbqKAvo?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sisso and Maiko have taken this approach to the next level, often playing the keyboard behind their heads, with their tongue, or blindfolded as they did during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/AAS05uO3_l8?si=CAY3fKBhmOLMWNlX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nyege Nyege Festival Paris<\/a> and recent <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VyRZfvqSxhE?si=gbEegE-facHjdJBI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boiler Room<\/a>. A performance they honed during the many weeks of their Afropollination residency. For them, sharing singeli behind the scenes is important. But it\u2019s what\u2019s front and center that the duo opt to highlight. The dancing, the energy, the moments of live performance strike at the heart of what singeli has to offer.&nbsp;Which brings us to the inseparable element for both the residency and music at large\u2026 dance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"Making moves\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_64d3ce5cdd48307dd59a1647d3c3a46c\" id=\"longform-section-block_64d3ce5cdd48307dd59a1647d3c3a46c\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">Making moves<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For the residency organizers, interdisciplinary exchange was as important as international exchange. Whether it\u2019s the disciplines within music (producing, DJing, playing, composing) or in broader culture, it\u2019s easy to silo craft into their respective towers of ivory and insight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>But the obvious remains. Music and dance are inseparable. One informs the other. Back and forth in conversation, bodies move to beats and beats move to bodies. For this Afropollination residency, dance was a crucial component to enriching the cross-pollination.&nbsp;For spectators and participants alike, dance embodied the experience. Often characterized as a \u201cperformance\u201d,&nbsp; dance transcended the artistic frontiers of the festivals and residency locations to engage with the larger public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">\u201c<em>The idea is to do as many things as possible, but with joy and everyone in their place<\/em>.\u201d &#8211; Violaine Le Fur<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the creative direction of Violaine Le Fur, groups were put together, workshops and movement sessions organized, and spectacular avant-garde performances shared with the world. Creative director of the Yok\u00e9 collective, Violaine works across Africa doing workshops, exhibitions, and cultural events. As a curator within the Nyege Nyege collective, Violaine also participates in the dance and performance programming of the festival and encourages collaborations with other independent African Festivals and collectives such as Kinact (DRC), Modaperf (Cameroon) and Balabal\u2019art (Congo Brazzaville).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_0abde16591e1121e0745adf9f2cfeab3\" id=\"longform-section-block_0abde16591e1121e0745adf9f2cfeab3\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <video poster=\" https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Zora-Banner.jpg \" class=\"desktop-video w-full h-full object-cover h-screen w-screen left-0\" muted loop playsinline><source src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Zora-Nyege-Dance.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><video poster=\" https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Zora-Banner.jpg \" class=\" mobile-video w-full h-full object-cover h-screen w-screen left-0\" muted loop playsinline><source src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Zora-Nyege-Dance.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">One such dancer brought into the fold was Cameroonian multi-disciplinary artist Zora Snake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-white-color has-text-color\">During the Nyege Nyege festival, Zora chose to march his performance outside the gates and security controls of the festival as an offering to the locale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_e336d4acd1253babb17f801f2b082ad0\" id=\"longform-section-block_e336d4acd1253babb17f801f2b082ad0\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Accompanied by the Royal Drummers of Burundi, Congolese dancer Sara Ndele, and the KinAct collective from Kinshasa, Zora\u2019s ultra-futuristic, yet deeply symbolic spectacle was a display of generosity, transcendence, and pure avant-garde.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The recycled monsters who followed Zora are part of the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s KinAct collective and festival organizers. Among them, Eddy Ekete, the group\u2019s founder, takes trash from the over polluted streets of Kinshasa and transforms the material into works of art. Costumes made of plastic bottles, old car parts, or shards of glass. There is no limit to the recycled potential of their work.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s an appropriate metaphor tied to Zora Snake\u2019s performance which \u201crecycles\u201d symbolism and tradition often cast aside or overlooked, creating modern reinterpretation in the form of ritualistic dance. \u201c<em>It was a way to give an offering to these families in the village and to bring peace<\/em>,\u201d Zora Snake says of his itinerant performance at Itanda Falls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-large-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">\u201c<em>The body is a magical place, it\u2019s the architecture of life.<\/em>\u201d &#8211; Zora Snake<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A similar performance took place with other dancers in Kampala\u2019s Ggaba Fish Market near the Nyege Nyege villa. This makeshift dance outfit including Sara Ndele, Fanny Love, and Shanny J&nbsp; all made their way into the public to introduce the magic of their art to unsuspecting samaritans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a prestigious crew. Fanny Love is a Cameroonian dancer who has worked with international choreographers, won local dance battles, and became an Africa\u2019s Got Talent finalist. Sara Ndele is a longtime KinAct collaborator and member of Kinshasa\u2019s Academy of Fine Arts. And Shanny J is a renowned waacker, voguer and backup dancer for the likes of Meek Mill, Boity, or Kamo Mphela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the center of the Gbaga Market, Zora begins with another ritualistic offering. Sara sheds one of the KinAct costumes, reaching for the clouded sky. Fanny Love splashes in and out of an oil drum filled with water. Shanny J, moves in the shapes of a recovered tent and hula hoop leftover from the Nyege Nyege festival. Sisso and others bang on recovered sheet metal, makeshift drums, and wooden blocks to create a rhythm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a spectacular display. The shocked and amused faces of the children culminate in an overwhelming glee. A memory to last a lifetime and a spark of divine shot through the seams of waking life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"Do it for the culture\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_70f198669575a46d32e71266fc07c5bb\" id=\"longform-section-block_70f198669575a46d32e71266fc07c5bb\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\"><strong>For the record<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Unlike music, whose machines and studios provide the shape and constraints to an artist&#8217;s work, dance goes where the body goes. Formal recording is visual. And so, videographer and VJ designer Vincent Moon was invited to point a lens at the performances and give them material meaning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Vincent Moon is a world renowned independent filmmaker from Paris. Known for his <em>Petites Plan\u00e8tes <\/em>collection that explores local folklores, sacred music, and religious rituals, Moon propels his camera into the moment, to be shared later for free on the internet under the Creative Commons license.&nbsp;An entire playlist of short films is available on YouTube, including the one below featuring FannyLove, South African DJ MP3, and South Sudanese DJ and producer Turkana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"FANNYLOVE x TURKANA x DJ MP3 - AFROPOLLINATION - UGANDA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l8SC2-9amoQ\/?list=PLASR8Pmb6GpMLYlEAySMVrSiu3u0-H8OQ&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">One of the more gripping films was another <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FChtuDGHj9g?si=RBVHXYK-QtW1th8d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">performance at Kampala\u2019s Gbaga Fish Market<\/a> with French-Congolese, Berlin based no-limit fashion designer, embodied performer, and hybrid visual artist, Natisa Exoc\u00e9 Kasongo, or simply, Exoc\u00e9. Alongside Exoc\u00e9 were Tanzanian singeli dancers Nana and Zai. A deadly twerk duo, Nana and Zai are Tanzanian queens of the dancefloor, mastering their bodies in rhythms that often roll at a minimum of 200 bpm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_b5a604d542629c51312579f3f53fd5ad\" id=\"longform-section-block_b5a604d542629c51312579f3f53fd5ad\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <video poster=\" https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Exoce-Cover.jpg \" class=\"desktop-video w-full h-full object-cover h-screen w-screen left-0\" muted loop playsinline><source src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Exoce-Short.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><video poster=\" https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Exoce-Cover.jpg \" class=\" mobile-video w-full h-full object-cover h-screen w-screen left-0\" muted loop playsinline><source src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Exoce-Short.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pam.cosavostra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chrisman-Doomsday-Light.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">The performance and accompanying film is fearless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\"> Stunned faces surround the trio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Nana, Zai, and Exoc\u00e9 embody the terrifying and beautiful sounds of Chrisman&#8217;s doomsday track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_a8d3d52a0e890e1a27f7177a6efc776a\" id=\"longform-section-block_a8d3d52a0e890e1a27f7177a6efc776a\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Dance became an expression of the residency\u2019s music. But more than that, it became the bridge from the inside to the out. Working into the public, outside festival gates and in markets, it was a way for the artists to offer their creations back to the world. Pollination in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_5cccac42e94e9b9eecac0cd3fe3bf105\" id=\"longform-section-block_5cccac42e94e9b9eecac0cd3fe3bf105\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-black-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\"><strong>Letting things bloom<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Though none of the work of Afropollination exists in a vacuum. The artist\u2019s creations are meant to be shared, their experiences opened up to the broader community. During the residency there were several occasions to showcase the results of the program live and online, available below via a collection of tracks produced sporadically throughout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1765551777&#038;color=%232e1264&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/hakunakulala\" title=\"HAKUNA KULALA\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">HAKUNA KULALA<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/hakunakulala\/sets\/afropollination-1\" title=\"AFROPOLLINATION\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">AFROPOLLINATION<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Then there is, of course, the legendary Nyege Nyege festival hosted at Itanda Falls, Uganda, on the rapids of the Nile. It was the first live laboratory for the residencies to take the stage. Tucked onto a hill over the river, thousands of festival goers from all over the world walked muddy paths to the many stages set up throughout the pine forest. Everyone is colorful and enchanted. Bass booms constantly from all directions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Here&nbsp;in the pine forest, another gqom maverick, DJ MP3, goes b2b with Menzi for a pop-flavored gqom set. Astan Ka and Binghi made partygoers bounce under the hanging mushrooms and red lights of the festival&#8217;s Tropical stage. Thelma Ndebele aka Dormant Youth, a master of underground boom, curate a set alongside ethno-futurist club all star Bloomfeld.&nbsp;It\u2019s a free for all of music and madness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Afropollination at Cosmo Festival\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GU6W3R7CoB4\/?list=PLASR8Pmb6GpMLYlEAySMVrSiu3u0-H8OQ&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Later in the year was Berlin\u2019s CTM festival. The German festival, music, and art platform was a fitting stopover, stating in its mission that it \u201c<em>connects multi-perspective experiences, critical reflection, hedonism, and collaborative learning.<\/em>\u201d An eerily similar mission to that of Afropollinatoin itself. Jessica Ekomane and Afrorack performed at the HAU2 international theater and performance center, continuing to refine their sound science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\" style=\"color:#ffffff\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"758\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jessica-Ekomane-1010x758.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jessica-Ekomane-1010x758.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jessica-Ekomane-759x569.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jessica-Ekomane-1440x1080.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jessica-Ekomane-661x496.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jessica-Ekomane-465x349.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jessica-Ekomane-375x281.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Jessica-Ekomane.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jessica Ekomane plays beside Afrorack at the CTM festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Videographer Jan Moss, who participated in much of the Afropollination experience in Uganda behind the lens screened his film <em>Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed<\/em> which featured Sisso, Maiko, Jay Mita and others, followed by a performance with Jay Mitta himself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">The newly dubbed supergroup 3OK (Zo\u00eb Mc Pherson, Jay Mitta, and DJ Diaki) with Nana &amp; Zai performed at Berlin\u2019s legendary Berghain club (no photos allowed). Binghi and Astan Ka, the residency outfit of Bloomfeld, Phatstoki &amp; Miziguruka named INSHINZI, Menzi and Debmaster\u2026 Everyone got a chance to showcase the fruits of the collaboration at one of the world\u2019s most prestigious electronic events.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-51c2ec16ad454aa652fec9b02697c93f\">There was also the COSMO Radio Festival in Dortmund, which in Astan Ka&#8217;s words, was &#8220;<em>a perfect cosmos<\/em>&#8221; of people, and a celebration of all that was created during the residency. <\/p>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_4aab93ff88c8b21858c81d80e6a53349\" id=\"longform-section-block_4aab93ff88c8b21858c81d80e6a53349\" class=\"section w-full relative grid grow-animate longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 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src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Fanny-J-Kreuz.jpg\" class=\"mobile-img absolute top-0 w-full h-full object-cover visible lg:invisible pointer-events-auto lg:pointer-events-noneh-screen w-screen left-0\" alt=\"mobile-image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Fanny-J-Kreuz.jpg 3130w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Fanny-J-Kreuz-759x503.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Fanny-J-Kreuz-1010x670.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Fanny-J-Kreuz-2048x1358.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Fanny-J-Kreuz-1440x955.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Fanny-J-Kreuz-661x438.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Fanny-J-Kreuz-465x308.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Fanny-J-Kreuz-375x249.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">Finally there was the Festsaal Kreuzberg, Afropollination&#8217;s closing event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"block_8c50d8a3585c5d210da5196851b2c184\" class=\"fadeInImageWrapper\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1007\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nana-zai-tutorial.jpg\" class=\"block_8c50d8a3585c5d210da5196851b2c184 desktop-img\" alt=\"desktop-image\" id=\"block_8c50d8a3585c5d210da5196851b2c184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nana-zai-tutorial.jpg 3363w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nana-zai-tutorial-759x497.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nana-zai-tutorial-1010x662.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nana-zai-tutorial-2048x1342.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nana-zai-tutorial-1440x944.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nana-zai-tutorial-661x433.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nana-zai-tutorial-465x305.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nana-zai-tutorial-375x246.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Zai-Tutorial.jpg\" class=\"block_8c50d8a3585c5d210da5196851b2c184 mobile-img\" alt=\"mobile-image\" id=\"block_8c50d8a3585c5d210da5196851b2c184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Zai-Tutorial.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Zai-Tutorial-759x1349.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Zai-Tutorial-1010x1796.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Zai-Tutorial-661x1175.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Zai-Tutorial-465x827.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Zai-Tutorial-375x667.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">There were dance tutorials from the likes of Exoc\u00e9, Nana, and Zai,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"block_454d6ed196353552587132be4cc1925e\" class=\"fadeInImageWrapper\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1018\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-60.jpeg\" class=\"block_454d6ed196353552587132be4cc1925e desktop-img\" alt=\"desktop-image\" id=\"block_454d6ed196353552587132be4cc1925e\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-60.jpeg 3130w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-60-759x503.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-60-1010x670.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-60-2048x1358.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-60-1440x955.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-60-661x438.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-60-465x308.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-60-375x249.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vincent-Moon-Live.jpg\" class=\"block_454d6ed196353552587132be4cc1925e mobile-img\" alt=\"mobile-image\" id=\"block_454d6ed196353552587132be4cc1925e\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vincent-Moon-Live.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vincent-Moon-Live-759x1349.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vincent-Moon-Live-1010x1796.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vincent-Moon-Live-661x1175.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vincent-Moon-Live-465x827.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vincent-Moon-Live-375x667.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">live cinema with Vincent Moon,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"block_89a8186cf2e3492df6c681c484af2ddc\" class=\"fadeInImageWrapper\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1030\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuzberg.jpg\" class=\"block_89a8186cf2e3492df6c681c484af2ddc desktop-img\" alt=\"desktop-image\" id=\"block_89a8186cf2e3492df6c681c484af2ddc\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuzberg.jpg 2433w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuzberg-759x1132.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuzberg-1010x1506.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuzberg-2048x3055.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuzberg-1440x2148.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuzberg-661x986.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuzberg-465x694.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuzberg-375x559.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuz.jpg\" class=\"block_89a8186cf2e3492df6c681c484af2ddc mobile-img\" alt=\"mobile-image\" id=\"block_89a8186cf2e3492df6c681c484af2ddc\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuz.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuz-759x1349.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuz-1010x1796.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuz-661x1175.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuz-465x827.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/zora-kreuz-375x667.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">dance performances with Zora Snake,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"block_cc590acae0733661126e69d4446cfd7c\" class=\"fadeInImageWrapper\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46.jpeg\" class=\"block_cc590acae0733661126e69d4446cfd7c desktop-img\" alt=\"desktop-image\" id=\"block_cc590acae0733661126e69d4446cfd7c\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46.jpeg 2075w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-759x1145.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-1010x1524.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-2048x3089.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-1440x2172.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-661x997.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-465x701.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-375x566.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2075\" height=\"3130\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46.jpeg\" class=\"block_cc590acae0733661126e69d4446cfd7c mobile-img\" alt=\"mobile-image\" id=\"block_cc590acae0733661126e69d4446cfd7c\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46.jpeg 2075w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-759x1145.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-1010x1524.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-2048x3089.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-1440x2172.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-661x997.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-465x701.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ap-46-375x566.jpeg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">and a club night that gave the stage to the Afropollination artists and groups, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"block_fdc9fec5d11abc0b19f745e915cc0868\" class=\"fadeInImageWrapper\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1186\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kasapio-Kreuz-2.jpg\" class=\"block_fdc9fec5d11abc0b19f745e915cc0868 desktop-img\" alt=\"desktop-image\" id=\"block_fdc9fec5d11abc0b19f745e915cc0868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kasapio-Kreuz-2.jpg 2650w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kasapio-Kreuz-2-759x586.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kasapio-Kreuz-2-1010x780.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kasapio-Kreuz-2-2048x1582.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kasapio-Kreuz-2-1440x1112.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kasapio-Kreuz-2-661x511.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kasapio-Kreuz-2-465x359.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kasapio-Kreuz-2-375x290.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/kasapio-kreuz-mobile.jpg\" class=\"block_fdc9fec5d11abc0b19f745e915cc0868 mobile-img\" alt=\"mobile-image\" id=\"block_fdc9fec5d11abc0b19f745e915cc0868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/kasapio-kreuz-mobile.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/kasapio-kreuz-mobile-759x1349.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/kasapio-kreuz-mobile-1010x1796.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/kasapio-kreuz-mobile-661x1175.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/kasapio-kreuz-mobile-465x827.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/kasapio-kreuz-mobile-375x667.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>    \n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen75 lg:h-screen75\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\">all while wearing the collage-fashion of Exoc\u00e9\u2019s Kasapio brand. From the outside looking in, Afropollination had successfully pollinated the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\" pointer-events-none h-screen100 lg:h-screen100\"><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_5a2f420324afabf6fceadb6cf8664e97\" id=\"longform-section-block_5a2f420324afabf6fceadb6cf8664e97\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper \"><\/div>\n                <div class=\"mobile fadedImagesWrapper\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Content wrapper here -->\n    <div class=\"relative z-10 single-column max-w-pam mx-auto\">\n        <div class=\"innercontent \">\n            \n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Do it for the culture<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos, clips, snapshots, texts, and memories\u2026 The true legacy of the residency lives in the resonance of the people involved. How each individual will operate differently in the world. An echo of influence, a newfound corridor of knowledge, a friend. For some it meant broadening their own horizon. For others, getting back in touch with their ancestry. Old spaces were reclaimed anew. Fishing vessels become performance venues. The inward looking electronic elite of a place like Berghain offered stages to the emergent global underground. Muddy footprints washed away above the gushing Nile. The light and shapes of Kampala imprint themselves on film and hard-drives. Above all remains a notion of the explosive power of creativity when people are brought together, no matter how disparate or distant. It can be spontaneous or deliberate. Challenging or easy. Reach out and open the door. After, nature will take its course. If groups stay together, if names are forgotten&#8230; Residencies aren\u2019t products, but a process. And after the chaos and whirlwind of creation, all that\u2019s left is to let things bloom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:200px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<section data-title=\"\" data-scoll-target=\"longform-section-block_abe32c70d1e3d3de6aa4570ce076bb01\" id=\"longform-section-block_abe32c70d1e3d3de6aa4570ce076bb01\" class=\"section w-full relative grid  longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-white-background-color \" style=\"\">\n    <!-- Pinned wrapper here -->\n        <div class=\"pinned-wrapper pointer-events-none\">\n        <div class=\"pinned h-screen w-full \">\n            <div class=\"h-screen w-full longform-section wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio alignwide has-white-background-color\" style=\"\">\n                <div class=\"w-full h-full h-screen w-screen left-0\"><\/div>                <div class=\"desktop fadedImagesWrapper 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