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Tutu Puoane – Wrapped In Rhythm – album trailer

Hi everybody, So Tutu Puoane’s upcoming album was recorded this past July. It’s still a while before the release in March next year, but here’s some studio footage and some nice words of producer Larry Klein. Much looking forward to releasing this one, it’s been a long journey since Tutu’s first idea about doing something […]

Tutu Puoane – Wrapped In Rhythm

Wrapped In Rhythm is a double album project by South African-born and Belgium based vocalist Tutu Puoane, dedicated to and based on the beautiful poetry of her SA compatriot Lebo Mashile. For almost ten years, Tutu walked around with Lebo’s collection In A Ribbon Of Rhythm under her arm. The poems made a deep and […]

Crowdfunding Tutu Puoane

Hi all, Tutu Puoane is running a crowdfunding campaign to help finance her upcoming album. As you are probably aware, making albums has become increasingly more difficult on the financial level for independent artists, particularly those who operate within rather niche-areas of the market, partly because the return on investment is on the decline (due […]

EARLY RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT: TUTU PUOANE – ‘WRAPPED IN RHYTHM’

Hi everybody, We are very excited to announce a new Tutu Puoane album! It’s been a while since she last released original music, but this next project is bound to make up for that for sure. New songs based on beautiful poems of the great South African writer/artist Lebogang Mashile will be recorded in July […]

Tutu Puoane’s 1st two albums: limited stock available!

Due to warehouse reorganisations of Saphrane, the record label with which Tutu Puoane released her first two albums ‘Song’ (2007) and ‘Quiet Now’ (2010), we were able to get a limited stock of CD-copies (50 each). They are now for sale via our shop-page, so for all of you who still would like to get […]

Ewout Pierreux Rhodes Trio

The Rhodes-piano is the legendary electro-mechanical instrument invented by Harold Rhodes and made famous by the likes of Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock. Its typical warm bell-like sound is the result of its design: the keys drive wooden hammers to touch thin ‘tines’, which pitch vibrations as a result are being registered by electric pickups. […]