I always find this a fun litmus test for how much of the industry I actually know! From my love of rock and singer songwriters in South Africa - the SAMA nominations always remind me just how much more there is out there in our rainbow nation! From Maskandi to Venda, Afrikaans to jazz, gospel and Kwaito - oh, and not forgetting the overwhelming following of dance music in SA!
Here are a selection of SAMA categories and nominations that got me excited and crossing digits and congratulating artists (with little stars to show extra love):
Album of the year
Flash Republic – Killer Moves *
Liquideep – Fabrics Of The Heart *
Prime Circle – Jekyll & Hyde *
Professor – University Of Kalawa Jazmee
Zakes Bantwini – Love, Light & Music
Duo/Group of the year
Flash Republic – Killer Moves *
Kwela Tebza – Gauteng Made In South Africa/Mzansi
Liquideep – Fabrics Of The Heart *
Prime Circle – Jekyll & Hyde *
Tumi & The Volume – Pick a Dream *
Best Music Video of the year
Freshlyground – Chicken To Change *
Nomfusi – Nontsokolo
Teargas – Goodfellaz
The Parlotones – The Stars Fall Down *
The Parlotones – Life Design
Best Rock Album: English
John Ellis – My Own Way Home
John Ellis – My Own Way Home
Prime Circle – Jekyll & Hyde
The Narrow – You Don’t Get To Quit *
The Parlotones – Live Design
Zebra & Giraffe – The Inside *
Best Pop Album: English
Danny K – Across The Line
Danny K – Across The Line
Jax Panik – I Am Jax Panik *
Locnville – Sun In My Pocket
Louise Day – Swallowed By The City
The Arrows – Make Believe *
Record of the year (the only category voted for by the public - my thoughts below!)
Alone – Liquideep
Breathing – Prime Circle Good song, but not a winner in this category.
Bum Bum – Zakes Bantwini
Dreamer – Arno Carstens *
Fire Is Low – Freshlyground
Get Busy Living – Goldfish
Hobie Beach – Kinky Robot
Imoto – Professor
It's A Party – Jozi
Lovesick – The Arrows * It's stuck in my head and I don't mind
Love You Better (w/ Rue-Groove) – Crazy White Boy * Addictive. Like.
Mama (w/ Ringo) – Black Coffee
Ngisemthanda (w/ Joocy, DJ Tira & Dr Duda) – DJ CNDO
Potoko (w/ Juice Matute) – DJ Mahoota
Show Dem (w/ HHP) – JR I'm sure this was on the same list last year!?
Turn Up The Volume – Auriol Hays
Twisted – Crash Car Burn * Impressed every time I hear it on radio!
Warrior – Louise Carver Great track, great collaboration!
Woza – Jaziel Brothers
Almost as good as live music for me, is the chance to buy a really good SA music DVD - something which not many artists in this country have done well yet - so some other nominations I'm excited for include Nibs van der Spuy's amazing 'Live at the Vagabond Cafe' DVD for 'Best Jazz/ Instrumental/ Popular Classical DVD' and both Locnville and The Parlotones in 'Best Global Chart DVD'!
Coming up tops as SA artists who have been abroad a fair bit with most nominations from a quick glance, we have Prime Circle leading with 6 (ahead of Parlotones with 4), Liquideep with 5 and then a few more with 4, namely Flash Republic, Freshlyground, Zakes Bantwini (must google), Professor (need to find out more about this Durban Kwaito artist), Louise Carver and Goldfish, followed by Locnville with 3 - and a couple of nods for Karen Zoid, Nianell, the Arrows, Jax Panik and Loyiso Bala too!
Rock on to all those celebrating the night away at the SAMA nomination party,
x
1 comment:
Thanks for posting this.
My artist Nomfusi is nominated in Best Video category, up there against Freshlyground and Parlotones. Sad thing though, is that SABC is not playing any music videos at the moment, since they haven't been paying royalties for a number of years. They are also slack about resolving the issue. Isn't this a shame? We spent months making this video with a group of young talented film students, yet it hasn't shown!
Watch the video here in HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Z3Wb1rfKk
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