{"id":3594,"date":"2018-03-29T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2022-11-06T17:10:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T17:10:37","slug":"culoe-de-song-23-02-18-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/culoe-de-song-23-02-18-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CULOE De SONG 23.02.18 WAKANDA REMIX"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Wakanda Remix<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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When he said that.\u00a0 I wanted to cry.\u201d\u00a0 She gripped her right hand in her bosom and sighed. Seconds paused.\u00a0 Seconds passed.\u00a0 Onze-onze-onze thumped underneath staccato tappings in the background.\u00a0 In the foreground, the chatter of voices spoke lines from a recently released blackbuster superhero release. At the bar, surrounded by friends and acquaintances the party was off to a liquid start.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

72 degrees Fahrenheit!!!\u201d A voice shouted, perplexed at the temperature on the final Friday night in February of BPM.\u00a0 Black Peoples\u2019 Month, the celebration of history & herstory.\u00a0 This was a time for not only celebration, but of reflection, of ancestors and their vast contributions and varied gifts to the world.\u00a0 This too was the cycle when the drum sojourned to the city.\u00a0 ATL\u2019s Alley Cat Music digitally posted the message over a network of platforms.\u00a0 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 named\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Music Room<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Within the belly, located downstairs, celestial beings nestled, delighted, and jumped mid-air to<\/span> \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.\u00a0 Tambor\u2019s DJ Stan Zeff\u2019s grip held the crowd in sweet serenade.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Much has changed for South Africa\u2019s Culoe De Song since his last visit to Black Hollywood.\u00a0\u00a0 The music producer scored major<\/span> crossover appeal with<\/span><\/strong> \u201cY.O.U.D<\/a>\u201d on Innervisions Recordings.\u00a0 There since, he has re-released anthems on the Berlin based label.\u00a0 He has toured the world over many times.\u00a0 He no longer appears youth faced with a snarl that graced \u201cA Giant Leap.\u201d\u00a0 He now resembles age twenty-something, his face fuller. He stands tall with a wide frame from lifting barbells.\u00a0 Certainly, Culolethu Zulu has come of age.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cRambo<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 Afro three-counts of pounding drums, wrapped under beeps, and rocking between handclaps.\u00a0 Culoe goes hard.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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His sound is minimal yet impacts.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Think afro-futurism\u2019s soundtrack, Culoe plays its heart.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Suddenly, bodies motion to the bar.\u00a0 Voices soften to whispers.\u00a0 The heart asks what happened?\u00a0 The energy ebbs.\u00a0 Culoe double downs a track the crowd has already experienced earlier, played by Stan Zeff.\u00a0 No one appears thrilled.\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Culoe pumps his fist into the air.\u00a0 He draws into his inner black power.\u00a0 He becomes the tornado that shreds the village dance floor.\u00a0 Suddenly, the air is electrified with dancing particles.\u00a0 \u201cAy-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh,\u201d a voice cries out.\u00a0 Black fist bursts from chest cavities; lunging bodies upward as if dancing feet levitate.\u00a0 Bodies dance deeper into the drum.\u00a0 No Poki.\u00a0 No fear.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cExcuse me,\u201d says the sound guy.\u00a0 Can you get off the speaker?\u00a0 Please?\u201d\u00a0 The body was called to dance on the elevated soundscape by the three-count tapping of percussions, hissing snares, and driving kicks of the bass drum.\u00a0 A Birdseye view of head wraps, ball caps, brunettes, and blondes displayed bodies swaying to hypnotic rhythms.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cAy-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh.\u201d \u201cNugwe\u201d brings the African chants.\u00a0 A dancer splits her legs apart and bounces atop the floor.\u00a0 \u201cWambaba,\u201d voices sing accompanying Thandiswa Mazwai\u2019s calling in native tongue.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cBang Royales<\/a>\u201d is the equivalent to listening to ping pong balls fly into paddles during table tennis.<\/span>\u00a0 \u201cWasha<\/a>\u201d echoes.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Snare kicks.\u00a0 Chants of<\/span> \u201cUmoya<\/a>\u201d rise to the occasion.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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The body drops to the wooden floor.\u00a0 With arms outstretched-reaching ever further-the knees crawl on the ground.\u00a0 New dance moves spring to life: dancing with the floor.\u00a0 The body lingers for minutes, suspended on a speaker as legs stretch upwards into the heavens.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Behold.\u00a0 The room is in full view.\u00a0 Usually the guest DJ plays on the stage.\u00a0 Tonight, CDS plays in a makeshift booth perpendicular the dancers performing standing splits and handstands onstage.\u00a0 Between beams of neon green, electric red, and metallic blue, the strobe lights go black.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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A drunken young girl-there is always one or two or three or more-steps off stage.\u00a0 And onto what she thinks is the floor.\u00a0 Instead she steps right on the boot heel of a dancer mid-plank.\u00a0 Ooops!!!\u00a0 Face down. Her left cheek smacks the concrete surface.\u00a0 She lay in a fetal position.\u00a0 OUCH!!! Until she is peeled off the dance floor, seated on a bench, hobbled up the stairs, and helped out the door by security.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cYeeaaahhhhh\u201d a baritone calls to attention.\u00a0 This is heart music; warmly structured, joyously sounding, that connects dancing feet to dancing hearts.\u00a0 \u201c I want to fly away\u201d belts the baritone of acclaimed vocalist Busi Mhlongo.\u00a0 \u201cI want to fly away,\u201d The heart agrees.\u00a0 Culoe closes with his classic\u2026\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Webaba<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Ankara, Adire and Kente draped dancing bodies.\u00a0\u00a0 Brilliant reds, swirled alongside majestic blues, dotted of celestial gold danced around the room.\u00a0 As a dear sister explained,\u00a0 \u201cTonight is Wakanda.\u201d <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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