The premise is simple: I sit down with any and every South African composer and creator of music that will allow me to stick a recording device in their face, all while subjecting them each to the same questions week after week in an attempt to showcase (and catalogue) all the incredibly varied and wonderful musical voices South Africa has to offer.
This week, I am joined by Galina Juritz (The Night Light Collective/Mum Crush) and discuss nearly killing our audience with a motorcycle, unicorns in the bathtub and cosplaying as Salieri.
Featured music:
"Eine Kleine Dubstep" (Matthijs van Dijk, performed by the Signum Quartet)
"A Room Full of Pop" (Galina Juritz, performed by The Night Light Collective, Phax Trio, Brydon Bolton and Jay Latter)
"Madness: Songs of Hope & Despair" (Galina Juritz with Dizu Plaatjies, libretto by Sean Baumann, performed by Linda Nteleza, Palesa Portia Malieloa, Nolubabalo Babalwa Mdayi, Fikile Mthetwa, Monwabisi Lindi, Vuyisa Jack, Siphesihle Mdena, Lungile Halam and Ebenezer Sawuli Madoda.
Galina Juritz & Matthijs van Dijk (violins), Sarah Evans (viola), Luke Otto (cello), Graham H Strickland (upright bass), Gene Kierman (French horn) and Zeke Le Grange on saxophone, conducted by Chad Hendricks)
"Twenty More Will Come" (Galina Juritz, performed by Juliana Venter, Clement Benny & The Night Light Collective)
"Body" (Galina Juritz, performed by Galina Juritz (violin) and Joe Harmsworth (guitar)
"In Rebellion of Time" (Galina Juritz, performed by the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet)