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S03E10 – The Geography Show

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The Geography Show by Tune Me What? on Mixcloud

In this episode, Leon and Brett spin a few records that were inspired by places in South Africa, as they go on a musical road trip. As David Kramer once said, “the people write themselves onto the land and the land writes itself onto the people,” so with that in mind let’s hop into our virtual conveyance of choice and visit a few tuneful spots around a country that have inspired sounds to match its scenery…

We feature music by:

  • African Jazz Pioneers
  • Anton Goosen
  • Beeskraal
  • Bongo Maffin
  • High Society (aka Deep Fried Man)
  • Jack Parrow
  • Jo’burg City Stars
  • John Wizards
  • Koos Kombuis
  • Trans.Sky

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

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S03E09 – e.p. Show

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This show is a tribute to that fading cultural artefact, the CD E.P… its slimline jewel case and awkward cardboard insert is disappearing, a victim of the Internet age where bands easily distribute online via iTunes downloads and Spotify streaming.

However, for some bands, the humble e.p. represented some of their best work, and in the case of many South African bands, their only recorded output.

In this show, we feature:

  • Amersham
  • BLK JKS
  • Ethel My Love
  • The Led
  • Lithium
  • One Large Banana
  • Sons of Trout
  • Springbok Nude Girls
  • Van Der Want/Letcher
  • Wonderboom

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

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S03E08 – Birfday Show

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Birfday Show by Tune Me What? on Mixcloud

It was Leon’s birthday – the last “in his 40s” – so obviously Brett (two years behind) had to take the mickey (or twist the knife, depending on how you look at it) with a playlist of songs about getting long in the tooth… and some hard party tracks thrown in!

So, you know what they say – let’s party!! (Of course, these days this means throwing in some mellow jazz as well so we can all catch our breath…)

 In this episode we future the music of:

  • Amersham
  • The Bats
  • Bheki Mseleku
  • Dirty Skirts
  • Falling Mirror
  • Harari
  • Hip Hop Pantsula
  • Hugh Masekela
  • Motswafrika
  • Qcumba Zoo
  • Wild Youth

We also played a new track by Matthew v.d. Want which is for sale on Bandcamp for $2 and all the proceeds are going towards a fundraiser for a musician who needs urgent medical care. Check out Matthew’s BANDCAMP page for details.

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

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S03E07 – The Jazz Show

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S3E07 – The Jazz Show by Tune Me What? on Mixcloud

Feeling a bit hot and bothered? Maybe a bit rough around the edges? Well, then you need something cool and smooth, and we have just the medicine. Even better than a vermouth on the rocks – sixty minutes of some great South African jazz, and a little blues thrown in, like mentholated spirits in a Martini…. all poured through a half-loaf of Leon & Brett.

In this show, we feature:

  • Abdullah Ibrahim
  • African Jazz Pioneers
  • Barney Rachabane
  • Basil Coetzee
  • Blues Broers
  • The Blue Notes
  • Dan Patlansky
  • David Kramer
  • Freshlyground
  • Gloria Bosman
  • Hannes Coetzee

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

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S03E06 – Sonja Herholdt Swings By

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S3E06 – Sonja Herholdt Swings By by Tune Me What? on Mixcloud

In this episode we chat to the lovely Sonja Herholdt about her life and career in music, and spin a few of her favourite records, as well as a few other Afrikaans artists, traditional and cutting edge.

In this show we feature:

  • Sonja Herholdt
  • Anton Goosen
  • Barbara Ray
  • Boo!
  • The Buckfever Underground
  • The Claude Larson Sangers
  • Four Jacks & A Jill
  • Valiant Swart

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

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S03E05 – Blerry Hungry Show

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S3E05 – The Blerry Hungry Show by Tune Me What? on Mixcloud

In this week’s episode, Leon & Brett make tummies rumble with a show devoted to South Africa’s cuisine – the weird and the wonderful! Slaptjips, koeksusters,  mbaqanga… hungry yet? Settle down for 60 minutes of songs about food – and drink!

We’ll feast on the music of:

  • Barney Rachabane
  • Cherry Faced Lurchers
  • David Kramer
  • Drakensberg Boys Choir
  • The Elite Swingsters
  • Jennifer Ferguson
  • Kalahari Surfers
  • The Kerels
  • Oom Hansie
  • Spokes Mashiyane
  • Tony Cox
  • Yvonne Chaka Chaka

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

If you’d like to advertise on the show, drop us a line at adverts@tunemewhat.com

S03E04 – Immigrant Songs

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At Tune Me What? we wanted to add our voices to the protests against xenophobia and racism with a special programme devoted to playing those South African artists who are themselves immigrants and whose music now forms part of the rich tapestry of South African culture!

This week’s nasty racist attacks on immigrants in South Africa – the so-called “xenophobic violence” resulted in chilling echoes of the Cultural Boycott of the 1970s and 80s. Radio stations in Zambia stopped playing South African music and artists had their international tours called off. As understandable as it is that people in other countries want to send a message to South Africans – particularly those civic leaders behind inciting the violence and politicians reluctant and slow to act – it is grossly unfair that blameless artists are, once again, punished.

We think that it is fair to say that most South Africans deplore the attacks on refugees and immigrants from other countries in Africa who look to South and the outpouring of protest is heartening.

In this episode we CELEBRATE the music of:

  • Claire Johnston (Mango Groove)
  • Dorethy Masuka
  • eVoid
  • Gito Baloi
  • Jimmy Dludlu
  • Johnny Clegg
  • Lionel Bastos
  • Louis Mhlanga
  • Ray Phiri (Stimela)
  • Sankomota
  • Simba Mori
  • Tony Cox

Of course, there are a great many more musicians in South Africa who are immigrants themselves or the children of immigrants and our musical heritage wouldn’t be nearly as rich without them.

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show. Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com

But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?!

You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

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S03E03 – Love Episode

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S3E03 – The Love Episode by Tune Me What? on Mixcloud

Well, it is spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the added warmth has made us all sentimental and soppy… therefore it is the right time to do an episode of love songs! We’re all grown ups here, so discover what “BMW” really stands for, lights some candles, and tune in for another episode of great, hearts-aflutter South African music!

In this episode, we feature:

  • Jan Blohm
  • Johnny Clegg & Savuka
  • Jonathan Butler
  • Klopjag
  • Letta Mbulu
  • Lucky Dube
  • Rabbitt
  • Tim Parr
  • Valiant Swart
  • Van Coke Cartel
  • Zakes Bantwini

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show. Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com

But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?!

You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

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S03E02 – A Free Country

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S3E02 – It’s A Free Country by Tune Me What? on Mixcloud

Owing to a gracious friend of the show, Leon was lucky enough to get tickets when the Twenty Years of Freedom show hit Los Angeles. It featured some of our favourite artists including Hugh Masekela, Vusi Mahlasela and Ladysmith Black Mambazo so we’ve built a show around it!

Of course, it wouldn’t be Tune Me What? without a few new discoveries, so there’s something for everyone in another jam-packed hour of South African music.

This week we feature:

  • Derick Watts & The Kifness (feat. Jack Parow)
  • Hot Water (feat. Donovan Copley)
  • Hugh Masekela
  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  • Reason
  • Soweto String Quartet
  • Vusi Mahlasela

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show. Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com

But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?!

You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

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S03E01 – New Season!

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S3E01 – A New Season! by Tune Me What? on Mixcloud

Well, we’re so stoked to be back with a THIRD season of Tune Me What?!

Once again, we aim to bring you a weekly show featuring some of the best music – past and present –  made by South Africans wherever they find themselves. Whether you’re a South African in SA lamenting the lack of local media support for our music, or you find yourself somewhere else in the world missing the sounds of home, we hope we can enjoy each other’s company for an hour a week.

A special welcome to our international listeners who don’t know much about South African music but want to find out more about this treasure trove of sound.

In this episode, we feature music from:

  • Baba Shibambo
  • Jabula
  • Julian Laxton
  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  • Matthew Mole
  • Scooters Union
  • Sharon Katz & The Peace Train
  • Spoek Mathambo
  • The Sighs of Monsters
  • Trevor Rabin
  • Underground Press

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show. Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com

But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?!

You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

If you’d like to advertise on the show, drop us a line at adverts@tunemewhat.com