Siselabonga

Last year Siselabonga dropped a new EP titled In Stone. South African singer-songwriter Nongoma Ndlovu took control of the mic and the group swerved into a kaleidoscopic melange of acoustic and electronic instrumentation. The rhythmic foundation is West African inspired, but elements of hip hop, soul, afrobeats, and electro-pop weave in and out of the tapestry. Vibrant, sensual, and transcendent, by analogy, the end effect has the splashy assertiveness of big-format canvases of painter Kudzanai-Violet Hwami.