Oct 18, 2015 | ARTicle
Finding fault It all started with a phone call that was forwarded through to Roel Stolper by chance. It was 1992, and that conversation – between Stopler, a researcher at the CSIR, and Eskom’s Wallace Vosloo – and their subsequent research collaboration have saved the...
Oct 14, 2015 | ARTicle
By BRUCE DENNILL Mark Olson’s Good-bye Lizelle finds an Americana legend collaborating with a Norwegian (his partner, Ingunn Ringvold) on a release distributed by a German record label (Glitterhouse) and featuring tracks recorded in, among other places,...
Oct 3, 2015 | ARTicle
By BRUCE DENNILL Calagary, Canada-based band The Wisers make honest, ballsy blues-rock. Singer Chad Thomas shares some thoughts. Operating as musicians creating original music in Canada, what are your thoughts on the way the industry is set up there? The...
Sep 26, 2015 | ARTicle
By BRUCE DENNILL Mike Weaver, frontman for Christian pop and worship band Big Daddy Weave is, like so many songwriters in the Christian contemporary music scene, a serial collaborator within that market. Yet many of his declared influences – Sting, Bruce...
Sep 24, 2015 | ARTicle
By BRUCE DENNILL As I sit down with Great Domaines CEO Derek Kilpin outside the company office in Melrose in Johannesburg, there’s a flyover – three Harvards in close formation. Seconds later, a branch from a nearby tree crashes to the ground alongside my car,...
Sep 3, 2015 | ARTicle
“What is she thinking?” It’s a question that has gone through the minds of parents worldwide who are attempting to raise teenagers—and it’s one that occurred to Oscar-winning director Pete Docter as he witnessed his own daughter Elie growing up. “My...
