Sabu Jiyana's Matimba Project Live at The Pink Room

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Experience the magic of live music in the heart of Cape Town. The Pink Room at The Gorgeous Room sets the stage for an unforgettable night of music on the 3rd of August - Sabu Jiyana's Matimba Project Live.

Featuring:

Sabu Jiyana: Percussion and indigenous instruments

Daddy Kabuya: Bass

Siya Klaasen: Keys

Esihle Valela: Saxophone

Skhumbuzo Qamata: Drums

Ntuthu Nyiki: Vocals

20.00 / R150 / Food & Drinks available

More information on Sabu:

After 17 YEARS of recording, performing and touring the world, Matimba Frontman Sabu Jiyana has made it his personal mission to take his audience on a journey through the African continent through a sound he has coined “The Pan-African Sound” 

Jiyana describes it simply as “ The true display of what African Leadership should look like in the 21st century” 

Sabu started the ensemble in 2017 just after completing his Postgraduate Studies at the prestigious University of Cape Town. It had become painfully clear through his studies that traditional African elements and sounds were mostly pushed to the background whilst favouring foreign ideas, concepts and instrumentation took centre stage. He wanted to encourage pride in our own, and so using the analogy that when one is in Rome, they do as the Romans do... When one is in Africa, surely it shouldn’t be about chasing foreigners from our shores, but rather about educating them on our ways and our colourful cultures that result in a melting pot of colourful musicality….After all, isn’t that what Pan-Africanism is all about? Matimba has an eclectic sound, influenced by old African Practices, modern African practices, old folk songs, and church songs and also coloured with the culture of a very different 21ST Century Africa and the current affairs and tribulations faced these days in the beloved continent and indeed the world at large. Matimba uses instruments such as the mbira (Zimbabwe) , Nyungue nyungue (Mozambique), Akadinda (Uganda) ,uHadi (South Africa) , and the talking drum (West Africa) , Just to name a few. All this is accompanied by bass guitar, piano and the western drum kit.