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Too Late for the Prayers

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An album titled, Too late for the prayers, featuring four compositions, two by Justinian Tamusuza and two by Michael Blake, will be released on the 17th March 2023.

It features the performers Marietjie Pauw and the Duo Infinite.

Sleeve artwork 

Here is the press release from the label - 

Too Late for the Prayers - digital release 17 March

Press Release

The long-awaited second release on the AOI label is a CD of works for solo flute and works for marimba and vibraphone duo by two composers from Africa – Justinian Tamusuza (Uganda) and Michael Blake (South Africa).

While he studied in Europe and the USA, Tamusuza’s music has always drawn on the indigenous Buganda music of his own country, and Blake’s music engages with various African musics, in particularly the indigenous Xhosa one-string bow tradition of South Africa.

During a residency at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in January 2019, Hoofstraat Conceptual in Riebeek Kasteel presented a concert of their music. Soon afterwards the musicians went into the studio to record this album, under the supervision of the composers. Leaving the studio, Tamusuza casually said to Blake: “Well, it’s done now … too late for the prayers.”

As in the concert, the performers from Stellenbosch and Cape Town are Marietjie Pauw (flute and alto flute), and Duo Infinite consisting of Cherilee Adams (marimba) and Dylan Tabisher (vibraphone).

Stephanus Muller has captured the essence of this project in his liner notes: “It is perhaps the quality of two old friends in (musical) conversation with each other, mutually inspired and generously acknowledging of each other’s presence … when all is said and done, what remains is friendship in music, and the music of friendship. And the mystery of how beauty has something to do with that.”

MB, 3 March 2023


Link to music - after release - https://music.apple.com/tr/album/too-late-for-the-prayers/1674267114


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