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Benguela's first music video 'Meridian' by Ross Campbell is up on the video page, check it out :)

Some online review links:

Mail & Gaurdian review of Black Southeaster by Lloyd Gedye

Weekend Argus interview and review by Evan Milton

Mahala review of the Cape Town launch and album by Brandon Edmonds

Benguela's new album Black Southeaster is out through Jaunted Haunts, a record label known for it’s fiercely independent musical repertoire.

The album reflects the band’s harder edge and also seems to have more of a jazz influence if those who’ve heard it are to be believed. The recording process was also a step up from previous albums. Produced by Dirk Hugo and tracked at the new Sui Studios, the tracks have been quite heavily edited and added to - something the band as improvisors have not done before.

Benguela Black Southeaster

1. cumulo nimbus
2. subduction
3. black southeaster
4. achilles
5. neap
6. killer frog fungus
7. pacific gyre
8. meridian
9. moschops
10. spitzkop

 

Alex Bozas: guitars, bouzouki, glockenspiel, synth & ebow
Brydon Bolton: double & electric basses
Ross Campbell: drums, percussion, water & frogs
with
Derek Gripper: viola on tracks 1 & 4
Gustavo Fasani: bandoneon on track 8

Recorded at Sui Studios, Cape Town on the 9th May 2009
Recorded by Dirk Hugo and Dan Manojlovic
Produced by Dirk Hugo and Benguela
Mastered by Matthew de Nobrega at Timecode Mastering
Artworks and text by Zara-Moon Arthur
Layout and screen printing by Righard Kapp

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New videos of us playing at the Forge and at the Alliance Francaise are up in the video section - check them out.

Check out some photo's from the recording session last year here.

news from last year