Coming In From Reality
I first heard Rodriguez when I was sixteen in Vredenburg, on the West Coast in 1975. I was working part-time for Chatillon, the town’s moffie watchmaker, who operated a record shop next to the butcher, selling mainly Kwela music to Xhosa migrant workers. Old Chat was my muse, providing no actual funds, but access to a guitar amp and importantly almost the entire popular music catalog distributed in South Africa at that time.
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Swimming With the Stingray
Here’s an image taken at Peaceful Bay recently. Having just arrived on a hot day I took a refreshing swim. A massive stingray kept me company…
Chiggi Chiggi
This is sort of an African take on the Buddha’s Fire Sermon. Conciousness: breath, hearbeat, sounds, all is aflame….