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EGOLI

nme

8.0

“Earlier this year, Africa Express played one of their biggest gigs to date at Waltham Forest in Leytonstone, east London. It was a diverse jamboree of artists that included Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell, South Africa’s Moonchild Sanelly – who describes her sound as “future ghetto punk” – and Blur’s Damon Albarn, the collective’s most recognisable name on these shores. The date of the gig was particu”

EGOLI

loudandquiet

8.0

“Egoli is the Xhosa name for Johannesburg, literally translated as ‘City of Gold’. The city’s song mines have remained largely unquarried by Western ears thus far, but this latest instalment in the Africa Express series of musicological excavations might just pave the way for a new frontier rush. Over a seven-week period at the start of 2018, the Damon Albarn-founded project decamped to South Afric”