news from last year

TONG TANA - into the forest pics here.
poster for the Tong Tana eventDébut performance of a unique collaboration with legendary South African sound illusionists, Benguela and Australian born, nomadic composer, media artist, Andrew Garton of Secession records & Andrew Parker aka Imagemaster Blink. Friday 31 July, 8pm, Alliance Franciase, 550 Loop St, Cape Town. R50, bring your digital cameras.

TONG TANA (Penan for “into the forest”) is fusion cabaret combining improvisation, operatic texts and soundscapes, extreme vocals and an immersive visual performance and viewing enclosure. TONG TANA includes Garton’s Drift Theory: each performer composes unique theme based movements in isolation, to be performed and heard for first time, within a structured arrangement, to a live audience.

 

Thanks to Righard for this lovely review of our recent reunion gig.

 

Ok, it's 2009 and we've had a few rehearsals and it's sounding really good, so we put a little gig together - our first since disbanding in 2006. The very sad and untimely death of our good friend and musician Alex Van Heerden in January of this year had a lot to do with us getting back together.

 

Tony Cox's Blue Anthem featuring Benguela wins a SAMA award for best instrumental 2008.