{"id":41113,"date":"2019-12-13T13:40:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/urban-village-folk-music-in-the-streets-of-johannesburg\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:33:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:33:29","slug":"urban-village-sakhisizwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/urban-village-sakhisizwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Village, folk music in the streets of Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XIiUN-CQ-NU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>South African quartet Urban Village joins French label No Format to announce a debut album with the single &#8220;Sakhisizwe&#8221; along with a contagious live recording.<\/h4>\n<p>Feet steeped in tradition and head bowed toward the future, the Soweto based group Urban Village creates a unique melding of Zulu guitars, indie-folk, South African choirs and jazz and dazzled with an insane energy and charisma.<\/p>\n<p>Lead by singer Tubatsi Mpho Moloi and his spellbinding voice, Urban Village crafts songs with a wide range of colours \u2013 sometimes powerful, sometimes gentle, always airborne.<\/p>\n<p>Today, they release &#8220;Sakhisizwe&#8221; (To build a Nation), the first single from their new album, due to release in 2020 on french label No Format. It&#8217;s a joyous tune, buoyed along by catchy Zulu guitar riffs, a melodic flute that cuts across the rhythm, and chants of hope in Zulu and English. The single contains powerful lyrics in which &#8220;the young Urban Village generation consult \u2018the ancients\u2019 to rediscover a coherence, to trace a new and luminous path forwards and to build a new Nation together&#8221;. In the current context of South Africa, where fear of the other has far from disappeared, the song resonates with the times.<\/p>\n<p>Discover the live version of &#8220;Sakhisizwe&#8221; above.<\/p>\n<p>The single is availab<span style=\"color: #333333;\">le on <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/IDOL.lnk.to\/Sakhisizwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all platforms<\/a> an<\/span>d in our Noir Wave playlist sur <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/5Au5WzqKtuYMaqK1zT88Qv?si=5Jq6xn6nTMWY9OgRmcIF-A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify <\/a><\/span>and <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/playlist\/1878285902?utm_source=deezer&amp;utm_content=playlist-1878285902&amp;utm_term=924740661_1574678795&amp;utm_medium=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Urban Village appear at Afropunk in Johannesburg on 31st December 2019.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34238\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bf3c0a8e-urban-village.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bf3c0a8e-urban-village.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bf3c0a8e-urban-village-759x506.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bf3c0a8e-urban-village-1010x674.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bf3c0a8e-urban-village-661x441.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bf3c0a8e-urban-village-465x310.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bf3c0a8e-urban-village-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African quartet Urban Village joins French label No Format to announce a debut album with the single &#8220;Sakhisizwe&#8221; along with a contagious live recording. 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