Guitarist, saxophonist, composer and artist Maxim Starcke collaborates with percussionist Ronan Skillen for a second show at THE FORGE after a successful performance and live recording in November 2011.
Guitarist, saxophonist, composer and artist Maxim Starcke collaborates with percussionist Ronan Skillen for a second show at THE FORGE after a successful performance and live recording in November 2011.
Maxim Starcke (compositions, guitars, saxophone, electronics, soundscapes, visuals), with special guest Ronan Skillen (tabla, hybrid percussion kit, effects), will perform both solo and duo sound and instrumental explorations
Playing with the potential relationship between the visual and the auditory
Fresh from a 12-city tour of Switzerland and an intense three days of recording in Knysna with award winning sound engineer Howard Butcher, Cape Town composer-guitarist Derek Gripper launches his latest album, The Sound of Water, with a concert at his hometown venue The Forge in Windsor Road, Kalk Bay.
Singer/songwriter and Guitarist, Velethingweni Luies performs live.
“I’ve been playing guitar and writing songs for a little more than a decade now, and I am inspired by a range of artists and sounds. My music ranges from the likes of folk and rock, to melodic ballads and also some jazz. I see songs as a kind of story, with rhythm and tones. I especially like how the make-up of words and the music combine in that story. Some of my music isn’t easy to put into a specific genre, but that, I suppose is part of the natural evolution of the creative process”
Actor, story-teller, theatre director, painter and renowned musician and instrument builder, Phillip Nangle plays both traditional and contemporary compisitions of South African music.
A concert which artfully combines an exotic variety of musical styles and instrumentation, fusing African, Middle Eastern, folk music and jazz.
South African guitarist Derek Gripper and Indian tabla master Udai Mazumdar began their collaboration with a spontaneous performance in a Basel (Switzerland) jazz club in 2009…
“Buttery’s avant-garde world music is exceptionally beautiful - from composition to technique to atmospherics - and his latest release, “Fox Hill Lane” is one of the most adventurous acoustic recordings in recent memory.”
–Guitar Player Magazine, USA
The Ha!Man and Derek Gripper have been working together in live collaborative performances and recordings for over five years, producing a form of spontaneous collective improvisation that is an awe-inspiring conversation between two of South Africa’s most innovative solo performers working outside of the industry box.
Paris based composer-pianist, Christopher Culpo will return to the Forge on the 13th of August (yes Friday) for a solo concert.
Come and sit around the fire with other music lovers and enjoy these two dedicated and incredible musicians’ performances. The soccer can wait and the vuvuzelas can buzz along like hornets without us!
Peter Nordling and Christopher Tokalon will be performing a mesmerising blend of their original music which can transport you to exotic faraway places, with a variety of melodic styles and instruments.
Benguela have been playing improvised music together for over ten years and are on the verge of releasing their 4th album Black Southeaster
Performing works from their new CD : ’All in One’
Cape Town Autumn Tour 2010
