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Draper, Dave / Ntshuks Bonga: Snow in November (FMR)

Using alto & soprano sax, guitar, live sampling, looping and synths, Ntshuks Bonga and Dave Draper use traditional approaches to instrumental dialog, amplified and modified by the reintroduction of live interactive sound.
 

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Dave Draper-guitar, processing, live sampling/looping, piano, synthesizer

Ntshuks Bonga-alto saxophone, soprano saxophone

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UPC: 786497304424

Label: FMR
Catalog ID: FMR 308-0511
Squidco Product Code: 14856

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2011
Country: Great Britain
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at Granville Laboratories on November 30th, 2010 and April 15th, 2005 and June 11th, 2006 by Dave Draper.
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"Ntshuks Bonga was born in Johannesburg, 1st October 1963. He moved to London with family in 1970. He took lessons on guitar & violin at school, and is mostly self taught on saxophones and clarinets. His past projects & collaborations include: various wonderful Maggie Nicols groups circa 1991-1993; Louis MoholoŐs Exiles [Louis Moholo, Gibo Pheto, Pule Pheto, Claude Deppa] circa 1992; Silapha [with Gibo Pheto & Pule Pheto]; Ntshuks BongaŐs Tshisa [with Marcio Mattos & Ken Hyder]; Robyn Hitchcock; Claude DeppaŐs fabulous Horns Unlimited [12 horns, 3 percussion CMN tour in 1998); Ntshuks BongaŐs Tokolosho [with Veryan Weston, John Grieve, Winston Rollins, Brian Abrahams, Mark Sanders, Julia Doyle]; Lucky RankuŐs African Jazz All Stars; FJQ [with Robin Musgrove, Jerry Bird and Alfredo Genovesi] recorded FJQ in 1998; Lydia Lunch (fabulous winter tour in 2004; still receovering!); Dave Draper/Jim LeBaigue/Ntshuks Bonga trio"

-Ntshuks Bonga Website (http://www.ntshuksbonga.com/background/)
10/27/2025

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