{"id":42604,"date":"2017-08-25T15:45:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/five-tracks-that-inspired-south-african-guitarist-sibusile-xaba\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:38:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:38:44","slug":"five-tracks-that-inspired-south-african-guitarist-sibusile-xaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/five-tracks-that-inspired-south-african-guitarist-sibusile-xaba\/","title":{"rendered":"Five tracks that inspired South-African guitarist Sibusile Xaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8476 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_6246-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_6246-scaled.jpg 4000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_6246-759x506.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_6246-1010x673.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_6246-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_6246-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_6246-661x441.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_6246-465x310.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DSC_6246-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><em>Open Letter to Adoniah\/Unlearning&#8217;<\/em> Sibusile Xaba is an excellent debut (double) album.<\/h3>\n<p>\u00ab A lynchpin in South Africa\u2019s new generation of jazz musicians, KwaZulu-Natal-born guitarist and vocalist Sibusile Xaba has all the makings of an acoustic guitar master.\u00a0With a vocal style that is part dreamscaping and part ancestral invocation, Xaba divines as opposed to plainly singing. Combined with a guitar style that is rooted in expressive picking, Xaba\u2019s music shatters the confines of genre, taking only the fundamentals from mentors such as Madala Kunene and Dr Philip Tabane and imbuing these with a mythology and improvisational intensity all of his own \u00bb explains his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mushroomhour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">label<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4151052139\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sibusilexaba.bandcamp.com\/album\/open-letter-to-adoniah\">Open Letter to Adoniah by Sibusile Xaba<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We ask Sibusile Xaba to select for us five tracks that inspired his new album :<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Mfaz&#8217;Omnyana &#8211; Ngisebenzile Wemama<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PtQN0zz3bK8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First record I ever bought for myself, 21 years ago , there isn&#8217;t a week that goes by without me playing this tune. Reminder of my roots and where I come from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Madala Kunene &#8211; Ubombo<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LB3ZJWHjGZM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The great Madala Kunene summarized the idea of simplicity and the depth of trance . A griot \u00a0from the South of AFRICA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bheki Mseleku &#8211; Closer To The Source<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1v4GaEuhuvg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Again the lesson on simplicity emphasized, also the great need to stretch the harmony and the adventure of improvisation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nduduzo Makhathini &#8211; Mama AFRICA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hXt7fCL2ois\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My love for AFRICA is infinite, AFRICA is love, like that of a caring mother for her children. This message resonates deeply within me\u00a0&amp; inspires me greatly so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Joseph Hlabisa &#8211; Emantengwini<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FZCCY4d01Bs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the level\/sound I hope to reach one day (both vocally and through the instrument guitar) and hopefully expand (actually, rather contribute too).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8480\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-759x507.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-661x441.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-465x310.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Letter to Adoniah\/Unlearning&#8217; Sibusile Xaba is an excellent debut (double) album. \u00ab A lynchpin in South Africa\u2019s new generation of jazz musicians, KwaZulu-Natal-born guitarist and vocalist Sibusile Xaba has all the makings of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4080,7179],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42604"}],"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=42604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42604"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42604"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}