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The Artist

The Kalahari Surfers has been a name synonymous with experimental politically charged SA music since the early 80s, when they achieved notoriety for their 5 albums of experimental punk satire, which made heavy use of tape loops, samples and dub effects at a time when heavy metal was still fresh” and of course for having 3 albums in a row banned by the NP government!

Only Warrick Sony remains of the original Surfers, and in the meantime, Warrick has established himself as one of SA's most prolific and accomplished producers and sonic artists, with a long list of credits that includes many collaborative releases and a host of soundtrack work for films, documentaries, commercials, tv, multimedia installations and performances around the globe.

The 2001 release of the first new Kalahari Surfers album in over a decade - “Akasic Record” (ADOPECD004) - sparked a new era of the Surfers' subtle anarchy; he has subsequently produced the “Paralyser” album for Ghettomuffin (Milestone Records), 2 Kalahari Surfers albums, “Muti Media” and “Conspiracy of Silence” (Microdot Records); toured across Europe and SA from Mystic Boer to Quartz Festival (Norway); and co-composed with Murray Anderson the music for the forthcoming John Boorman movie “Truth: Country of My Skull”.

The Album

“Muti Media” is the follow-up to “Akasic Record” and is a more refined version of the same themes: a deep, delicious and vaguely unsettling trip through downtempo afrodub beats and mutilated rhythms in odd time signatures, eccentric sampling from SA's history and beyond, provocative subject matter, and that unique moody flavour of a master producer at work.

Recorded and produced entirely in Warrick's suite at Milestone Studios, the album features vocal input in a variety of vernaculars, from Soweto beatpoet Lesego Rampolokeng (“Durga's Belt of Skulls (The Light)”) and Surfers' protege vocalist Zukile Malahlana (who performs “Djengele”, his translation of “The Generals Walk Free”) to Jennifer Ferguson on the haunting finale “Faust (Excerpt)”. There's also much musical input from long-time collaborator Murray Anderson. All lyrics are reprinted on the album sleeve, which features a Brett Murray sculpture on the cover.

Muti Media is the meeting point of Africa and Technology “ the sangoma with a computer; the bushman with a surfboard; the tribesman with a cellphone. "Muti Media" takes the South African landscape into new dimensions of unsettled surreality - a musical journey through a doped-out dream state of not-quite-nightmare and not quiet relaxed suburban lounge. Thinking mon's dub.