JR Finalises Second Album

Mr 'Ga Ta Lenna' is currently finishing off his sophomore project (still untitled), he has worked with Beatmaker, Bantusoul, Towdee (Morafe), etc on production and is expected to drop the album end of Sept (just in time for the festive season)

The Avenue With Gln & Unathi premiered a new song from the album title 'Aga Shem', Melanie Bala was dancing in studio and she's not easily taken by new song so clearly he's on the right track,i have a feeling he's got another winner of an album

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Jozi Scoops Another African Award

This past weekend Jozi won their second african award (1st award - MTV Music Award last year for Best Performance), last week Jozi jetted off to Nigeria to collect their 2nd award (Best Southern African Group) at the Sound City Music Awards

On other Jozi news: Jozi is putting final touches on their sophomore project due for release in a month or two and Bongani Fassie leaves for New York today to make some music (will keep you updated).

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Unathi Is Golden

Remember i told you that Unathi's sophomore album 'In Honour' has sold gold? well yesterday her record company Universal surprised her at the METRO FM studios and presented her with her first gold disc.

Unathi's first single 'We Thembisile' written by Sipho Sithole was a big song which chartered on radio station nationwide, she worked with her Kalawa family (Oscar, Bruce and Spikiri)Amu, HHP and Jah Apple featured on the album.
Proud of you Unsta, hard work and determination always pay off!

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The Michael Jackson MOONWALK TRIBUTE Celebration

The death of Michael Jackson marked the end of an era. Fans across the world were deeply shocked and saddened at the sudden loss on JUNE 25th 2009. His music, messages of humanity, fashion flare and charisma had a universal appeal. We all connected to him. Call it human nature or the man in the mirror; Michael Joseph Jackson collectively brought us together, it doesn’t matter if you were black or white—We are the world.

Akona Ndungane with the help of Suede (Coming Soon Production) put together a 'Michael Jackson Mass MoonWalk' earlier today in Sandton to celebrate the world's most talented human being of our generation
The Event was hosted by 5fm’s Gareth Cliff, Yfm DJ and Vuzu.Tv Presenter-Siyabonga Ngwekazi, Talk Radio 702’s Aki Anastasiou , MTV’s Fikile Moeti and SABC’s Masetshsaba Lakalake and Tim, Tumi (Tumi & The Volume) also came through to show support and celebrate Michael Jackson
And performances by The Repertoires Dancer and DJ Kenzhero who wowed crowds with a Michael Jackson Medley, which took spectators on a musical journey of the King of Pops greatest Hits
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In the spirit of the MOON WALK TRIBUTE, everyone was asked to Dress Michael Jackson Style; black shoes, and white socks are a must, glitter gloves was optional but i saw a couple of people rocking them

Akona, Suede and everyone who helped put the 'mass moonwalk' together, thank you for your efforts and making sure that the icon who inspired all of us in so many different ways through his music doesnt go unnoticed!..thanks for documenting history.

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SA Celebrities to design gold for AuDITIONS

Musicians Loyiso Bala and Louise Carver, actor Carl Beukes and the glamour band Jamali, have signed up to design gold signature pieces for Urban Tribes, the latest AuDITIONS gold design competition. Their gold jewellery pieces will become part of the AuDITIONS Urban Tribes collection to be unveiled in October this year.

AngloGold Ashanti’s AuDITIONS, the world’s largest gold design competition, launched the South African 2009 /10 Urban Tribes season earlier this year and received more than 1000 entries from campuses and professional studios.
The trendy theme is supported by eight flamboyant urban characters from which the celebrities each selected one as a fictitious client. Loyiso was feeling the Hip Hop Homeboy and designed an Africa gold power-neckpiece, Egoli. Says Loyiso, “For inspiration I of course looked at Hip-hop culture and couldn’t get past the bling, but wanted to bring it home with some real Africa zing.”

Jamali’s trio Liesl, Jacqui and Mariechan got down with the Gold Digger and designed The Golden Rose. Their inspiration came from their most beloved personal jewellery which was interpreted into a design for their client the Gold Digger. The result is best described as ‘booty bling’.

The four celebrity pieces will be added to the 22 finalist jewellery pieces and accessories that are currently being manufactured to complete the Urban Tribes collection for 2009/10.

For more info go to www.goldauditions.com

Levi's® Printslam and Oppikoppi get together to make an impact!!

Print design and music get together and make an impact once again. It’s called PrintSlam, an annual exhibition of silk screen and digital posters which takes place at the legendary Oppikoppi festival in Northam in August. This one’s big people – it’s still the only annual exhibition of its kind in South Africa; a great opportunity for our visual creatives to turn their doodling into design and capture the soul of Mzansi’s young aesthetics. So if you’ve got an eye, and want to share your vision with others, then make sure that you get your entries in by the 20th of July.

And it couldn’t be happening in a more historic year. OppiKoppi is turning 15, and to mark this rock ‘n rolling occasion, it’s being declared a National Heritage Monument. The festival has been listed as one of the 10 best in the world and iconic jeans brand Levi’s® has been part of the party for the past six years. All these numbers add up to a momentous event – a truly South African institution where music and culture are celebrated in red dust & denim at Northam.

So if you want to feature at this incredible festival, but you’re without a backing band, then don’t worry. Get busy with your pens, pencils, paintbrushes and PhotoShop, and make sure that you’re one of the 20 artists who will be selected to display their work at the exhibition. You’ll receive a free pair of tickets to PrintSlam and your work will be sold at the event. Sounds pretty cool, doesn’t it.

But before you hit the canvas, take down these details:
All Prints must be signed and editioned (minimum 10 copies). Print sizes must be A2 or smaller for display space purposes.
Artists can send a couple of artworks
The artwork must be marked as “limited edition”.
There will be loads more information on the Facebook group – watch out for it.

Prints can be dropped off at:
A Look Away- BK Publishing
Pasiwa Office Park
Corner Schoeman & Gordon streets
Pretoria

Or mailed to:
A Look Away- BK Publishing
P.O. Box 6314
Pretoria 0001

And get more info:
Phone: 012 342 4 118
email: mail@alookaway.co.za

Slikour Off To The Big Apple

Miller Genuine Draft is embarking on this global initiative called the Global Fresh Collective (GFC) which aims to raise the brand’s platform as an enabler or facilitator of innovative thinking in emerging music talent and other creative industries (art, design and technology).
The GFC is made up of 10 Key Opinion Leaders from around the world and one curator (Pedro Winter). Our South African representative is Slikour from Skwatta Camp. The GFC members will meet for the first time in three sessions themed “Creative collaboration” in New York between Thursday 25th June – Saturday 27th June. The aim of the workshop is to explore the future for creative collaboration, provide inspirational thinking to a wide audience of aspiring talent and to show how collaboration between music, art design and technology can influence and fuel creative output. Each session will focus on a specific subject area that will be defined by MGD and our curator Pedro Winter

Slikour’s role as our SA representative in GFC is to participate in the debates and discussions happening on the day. The day will be streamed live to a variety of blogging sites around the world. Miznformed will be sure to keep you updated...