Special Bow tribute project

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On the 7 April 2023 the AOI label managed by Michael Blake will release a special album featuring traditional African musical bows as its central theme. Here the press releases from the label.

BOWSCAPES (Bow Project 2) - digital release 7 April

Africa Open Institute announces the release of the latest album on the AOI label - Bowscapes (Bow Project 2) in memory of Jürgen Bräuninger (AOI CD 05).

The original Bow Project CD (on TUTL records) with 12 string quartet paraphrases of Nofinishi Dywili’s songs, included a collaborative work by Jürgen Bräuninger and Sazi Dlamini, and as a lagniappe on the disc, a short electronic bowscape “Tsiki’s got a headache” by Bräuninger.

The latter piece was the inspiration and model for 20 new bowscapes by former students, colleagues, and friends working in the electronic medium, as well as admirers from around the globe.

Jürgen’s sudden death in 2019 came as a great shock to the South African compositional world and at Africa Open we wanted to pay tribute to this most South African of South African composers in the medium with which he was most associated.

Many South Africans and composers from Europe and the Americas have contributed short pieces which take a range of different South African musics for the one-string bow – the Xhosa uhadi and umrhubhe, the Zulu ugubhu and so on - as source material.

Michael Blake curated the project about which Gwen Ansell recently wrote in The Conversation: “Blake relishes the album’s diversity of approaches, languages and sounds. In the community of music-makers he’s drawn together, Bowscapes reflects both the community roots of bow music and the collaborative processes Bräuninger fostered”.

MB, 29 March 2023

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