{"id":41636,"date":"2019-06-24T11:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T09:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/bongeziwe-mabandla-announces-new-album-with-single-zange\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:35:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:35:03","slug":"bongeziwe-mabandla-announces-new-album-with-single-zange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/bongeziwe-mabandla-announces-new-album-with-single-zange\/","title":{"rendered":"Bongeziwe Mabandla announces new album with single &#8216;Zange&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6AesXpoUS8w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/h5>\n<h4>The South African artist is back with a third afro-folk album,\u00a0<em>Zange<\/em>, blending popular and traditional music in an unique way.<\/h4>\n<p>After two nominations for the South African Music Awards in 2013\u00a0following the release of his first album\u00a0<em>Umlilo<\/em>\u00a0and his award in 2018 for his second album,\u00a0<em>Mangaliso<\/em>, the Tsolo-born artist is back with a third project.<\/p>\n<p><em>Zange<\/em>\u00a0was written on the road, during his tour, pretty quickly : a new kind of creative process for the artist. As shown in &#8220;Zange&#8221;, the first single taken from the eponym album,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/tag\/bongeziwe-mabandla\/\">Bongeziwe<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is one of the leading figures of the new afro-folk scene.<\/p>\n<p>He blends isiXhosa lyrics with unique and captivating melodies in a very introspective album, dealing with personal issues such as love relationships and time passing by.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to\u00a0Bongeziwe Mabandla in our Noir Wave playlist on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/5Au5WzqKtuYMaqK1zT88Qv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deezer.com\/playlist\/1878285902?app_id=105611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Zange,\u00a0<\/em>out by the end of\u00a02019.<\/p>\n<h5>Read Next:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/the-power-of-kwaito-music-in-conversation-with-sandy-b\/\">The power of kwaito music: In conversation with Sandy B<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African artist is back with a third afro-folk album,\u00a0Zange, blending popular and traditional music in an unique way. After two nominations for the South African Music Awards in 2013\u00a0following the release of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[5223],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41636"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41636"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}