{"id":3562,"date":"2018-03-01T19:36:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2022-11-06T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T17:07:11","slug":"culoe-de-song-23-02-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/culoe-de-song-23-02-18\/","title":{"rendered":"CULOE DE SONG 23.02.18"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Culoe De Song\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

23.02.18<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFather, tell me the story of that night. The night of music, dance, and DJ, and all that happened.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDear Love. It all happened in the land way down south. Mouths profess, \u201cDurrrty, Durrrty,\u201d for the land\u2019s great red clay. Let us sojourn to the city. For within the city\u2019s walls is great music, its capability to draw all kinds of worldly sounds into its hub of drums. I will tell you of the night of music, dance, and DJ.\u201d<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt all began one unseasonably warm night. That night marked the final cycle of BPM. Black Peoples\u2019 Month, the celebration of history & herstory. This was a time for not only celebration, but of reflection, of ancestors and their vast contributions and varied gifts to the world. This too was the cycle when the drum sojourned to the city. ATL\u2019s Alley Cat Music <\/a>digitally posted the message over a network of platforms. House heads, techno heads, and Afro-lovers all gathered at the city\u2019s, \u201cEdge\u201d to inhale the breath of beating drums in a boombox\u00a0named\u2026\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>The Music Room\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Within the belly, located downstairs, celestial beings nestled, delighted, and jumped mid-air to \u201cPride<\/a>.\u201d Vocals interpreted by Nadira Shakoor over Osunlade\u2019s heart beating pulse erupted into thunderous soul-claps, the greatest of the night thus far. Tambor\u2019s DJ Stan Zeff\u2019s grip held the crowd in sweet serenade.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFather. Please, tell me about the DJ. I want to hear about the DJ that night. The one from faraway, from the Motherland.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDear Love. Be patient. For, I will tell you of he. Remember, the Motherland always tells stories. Her stories are told through the drum, dance, body and word of mouth. That night was no different. The Motherland told herstory through the music of history. Her dialect interwoven through his sonic narrative, a force so powerful dancing bodies were possessed, having a\u2026..<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>\u201cConversation with God.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Much has changed for South Africa\u2019s Culoe De Song since his last visit to Atown. \u00a0The music producer scored major crossover appeal with \u201cY.O.U.D. <\/a>\u201d on Innervisions Recordings. There since, he has re-released anthems on the Berlin based label. He has toured the world over many times. He no longer appears youth faced with a snarl that graced \u201cA Giant Leap.\u201d He now resembles age twenty-something, his face fuller. He stands tall with a wide frame from lifting barbells. Certainly, Culolethu Zulu has come of age.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cue \u201cRambo<\/a>.\u201d One-two, one-two-three counts of pounding drums, wrapped under beeps, and rocking between handclaps. Culoe goes hard.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

His sound is minimal yet impacts.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Think afro-futurism\u2019s soundtrack, Culoe plays its heart.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Suddenly, bodies motion to the bar. Voices soften to whispers. The heart asks what happened? The energy ebbs. Culoe plays a track the crowd has already experienced earlier, played by Stan Zeff. No one appears thrilled.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFather, wait, he pulled a double down on the dancers? \u00a0What happened next?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>\u201cDear Love. Culoe\u2019s lastest music offering, the cover artwork for his fourth-full release \u201c<\/em>Washa<\/a>,\u201d revealed what happened next.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Culoe pumps his fist into the air. He draws into his inner black power. He becomes the tornado that shreds the village dance floor. Suddenly, the air is electrified with dancing particles. \u201cAy-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh,\u201d a voice cries out. Black fist bursts from chest cavities; lunging bodies upward as if dancing feet levitate. Bodies dance deeper into the drum. No Poki. No fear.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cExcuse me,\u201d says the sound guy. Can you get off the speaker? Please?\u201d The body was called to dance on the elevated soundscape by the three-count tapping of percussions, hissing snares, and driving kicks from the bass drum. A Birdseye view of head wraps, ball caps, brunettes, and blondes displayed bodies swaying to hypnotic rhythms.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAy-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh.\u201d \u201cNugwe\u201d brings the African chants. A dancer splits her legs apart and bounces atop the floor. \u201cWambaba,\u201d voices sing accompanying Thandiswa Mazwai\u2019s calling in native tongue.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBang Royales <\/a>\u201d is the equivalent to listening to ping pong balls fly into paddles during table tennis. \u201cWasha\u201d echoes. Zaps from ray guns shooting at graphic figures jumping over rising and falling steel beams against electric cicadas singing in mating season appear in mind. Snare kicks. Chants of \u201cUmoya\u201d rise to the occasion.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The body drops to the wooden floor. With arms outstretched-reaching ever further-the knees crawl on the ground. New dance moves spri<\/span>ng to life: dancing with the floor. The body lingers for minutes, suspended on a speaker as legs stretch upwards into the heavens.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Behold. The room is in full view. \u00a0Often the guest DJ plays on the stage. Tonight, CDS plays in a makeshift booth perpendicular the dancers performing standing splits and handstands onstage. Between beams of neon green, electric red, and metallic blue, the strobe lights go black.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A drunken young girl-there is always one or two or three or more-steps off stage. And onto what she thinks is the floor. Instead she steps right on the boot heel of a dancer mid-plank. Ooops!!! Face down. Her left cheek smacks the concrete surface. She lay in a fetal position. OUCH!!! \u00a0Until she is peeled off the dance floor, seated on a bench, hobbled up the stairs, and helped out the door by security.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYeeaaahhhhh\u201d a baritone calls to attention. This is heart music; warmly structured, joyously sounding, that connects dancing feet to dancing hearts. \u201c I want to fly away\u201d belts the baritone of acclaimed vocalist Busi Mhlongo. \u201cI want to fly away,\u201d The heart agrees. Culoe closes with his classic\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Webaba<\/a>!!!! Webaba!!! Oh, I now understand. I am \u201cWebaba.\u201d The DJ is \u201cWebaba.\u201d The people gathered are \u201cWebaba.\u201d You are the night of music, dance and DJ. You gathered the people to celebrate. You possessed the body to dance freely. You caused the DJ to shred the dance floor. You are the \u201cConversations With God<\/a>.\u201d You are \u201cThe Sacrifice<\/a>.\u201d You are \u201cWasha<\/a>.\u201d You are \u201cYear of the Underdog <\/a>.\u201d You are the great ubaba womculo.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

words: aj dance<\/p>\n

Culoe de Song grphc: aj art<\/p>\n

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Culoe De Song\u00a0 23.02.18 \u201cFather, tell me the story of that night. The night of music, dance, and DJ, and all that happened.\u201d \u201cDear Love. It all happened in the land way down south. Mouths profess, \u201cDurrrty, Durrrty,\u201d for the land\u2019s great red clay. Let us sojourn to the city. 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