(Ariel
Zamonsky & Juana Pires Rafael)
The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music will
present bass player Ariel Zamonsky and vocalist Juana Pires Rafael on February 27,
2019.
This acoustic collaborative project started
with the aim to explore the musical connection between Africa and South
America. Being two Argentinians living abroad, Zamonsky and Pires Rafael both
felt the necessity to acknowledge their musical heritage and fuse it with the
musical influences that they have been exposed to throughout their careers, in
order to build a personal and relevant sound.
This later inspired their own compositions
-some of them on Zamonsky´s debut album Between
Two Worlds. These have now driven the duo into a new and characteristic
sound that succeeds in translating their musical identity. Their repertoire
includes original arrangements on jazz standards and South American traditional
and popular music as well as their own compositions. They often feature
musicians from diverse backgrounds (jazz, indigenous, etc).
Zamonsky is an Argentinean bass player who
relocated to South Africa in 2005, where he studied Jazz and met musicians such
as Tumi Mogorosi, Sibusile Xaba and Nhlanhla Mahlangu. He has been mentored by
South African greats: Andile Yenana, Afrika Mkhize, Nduduzo Makhathini, Ayanda
Sikade, Marcus Wyatt and Feya Faku among others.
He also features in various recordings,
three of them nominated for SAMA best jazz album award; Makhathini’s mother tongue, Mlangeni's Bhekhisiswe and Mavundla's Luhambo.
He is a member of Shabaka and the
ancestors, which has toured extensively around the world, performing at major
Jazz festivals like Montreaux, Montreal, Jazz a Juan, New York Winter jazz
fest, Afropunk just to name a few.
Born in Argentina, vocalist Pires Rafael
relocated to South Africa in debut 2016 in order to work on this duet project
and learn about South African music. Her love for music is visible in every
performance she delivers. She has travelled across the world, engaging with
different types of music and musicians, which gives her a quite distinct and
unique tone that is rooted in her Latino roots.
Join Ariel and Juana on February 27, 2019,
at 18h00 (doors open at 17h30) at The Centre for Jazz and Popular music (CJPM),
Level 2, Shepstone Building at UKZN Howard College Campus. General Admission R80
(R50 pensioners, R25 students). Contact Thuli on 031 260 3385 or email
Zamat1@ukzn.ac.za for more details.
This tour is supported by ConcertsSA
Mobility fund.
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