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Cape Town Opera Voices - Donald Graham Archive

Draft 2/4/2026 - NOT FOR PUBLIC USE BEFORE -  10/4/2026 In the 1980s and '90s Cape Town music and recording engineer and sound system enthusiast, the late Donald Graham, released several dozen records on vinyl and cassette tape, on his GSE Claremont Records label. One of his most popular releases was titled, Beautiful Cape Town - Fine Music, "Voices". The compilation set out to showcase Cape Town orchestras and artists from live recordings Donald had made as well as some he acquired the rights to from the 1970's. He was a specialist in live recordings and doing the editing on his analogue tapes and later his digital recordings.  The artist performances on this compilation are as he heard and captured on his microphones and are not enhanced, in other words completely analog acoustic allowing for some wonderful dynamics. (c) SONGWRIGHTS PUBLISHERS There were fourteen tracks in all, featuring such performers by,  Joseph Gabriels,   Lynn Julius,  Aviva Pelham, ...

New Robin Auld single - Alternative Adult Contemporary Rock

Robin Auld is pretty much the king of South African AAC Rock, with numerous chart hits under his belt.  On November the 7th he releases a new single, the radio version of a track from his latest album, Love Kills - The Collection.  We are perhaps naively calling it a radio mix because it is different to the original - we cut it down to 3:05, this in a time when radio has all but been replaced by streaming playlists.  Pic Jillian Edelstein (c) Songwtights Publishers  The song is Waiting for you , written a few years back and produced by Murray Anderson, now with the edits and re-mastering by Robin himself. It's a Rocker, heavy on electric guitars, a departure from the last acoustic guitar led album title song Love Kills . Robin comments - "The inspiration for Waiting for you comes from my affection for the songs of Lionel Bart, who wrote the music for Oliver. There's a song that Oliver sings which has the line "where is she, who I close my eyes to see, will I e...