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Sibusile Xaba

Sibusile Xaba has been played on NTS shows including Andrew Weatherall Presents: Music's Not For Everyone, with Wampona first played on 8 October 2017.

Charismatic guitar savant Sibusile Xaba reframes maskandi and the avant garde into his own humanist manifesto. With 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's 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. His…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
Wampona
Sibusile Xaba
Mushroom Hour Half Hour2017
Wampona
Sibusile XabaMushroom Hour Half Hour2017
Discogs
Umdali
Sibusile Xaba, Naftali, Fakazile Nkosi, AshK
Brownswood Recordings2021
Umdali
Sibusile Xaba, Naftali, Fakazile Nkosi, AshKBrownswood Recordings2021
Discogs
Nyandi Yeni (Interlude)
Sibusile Xaba
Mushroom Hour Half Hour2017
Nyandi Yeni (Interlude)
Sibusile XabaMushroom Hour Half Hour2017
Discogs
Tribute To Bafo
Sibusile Xaba
Komos2020
Tribute To Bafo
Sibusile XabaKomos2020
Discogs