Impumelelo
Pretoria, SA amapiano dynamo DJ Black Low weighs in a vocal-heavy and triple deep suite of log drums and sultry vibes on his 3rd and definitive album for Awesome Tapes From Africa
Flagged as one of amapiano’s most distinctive producers since 2021’s ‘Uwami’ album, DJ Black Low’s sound is subtly distinguished by a multi-instrumentalist palette puckered into memorable melodies. On his 3rd and most substantial album yet, he plays to amapiano’s deepest house inspirations with a dozen aces, almost all vocalled by a panoply of local artists who share the mic over plush variations elevated by his harmonious arrangements of keys, synth pads and string samples alloyed to that deadly, signature amapiano bop.
Where we had been initially attracted to the mix of dark but playful instrumental hooks and grooves of ‘Downfall Revisit’ and Alone in a Dark’ off his first LP, here we’re seduced by an abundance of vocals and the woozy, dusky, jazz suss of ‘Impumelelo’. Meaning “success” in Zulu, the title signifies a cool confidence in Black Low’s style this time, resulting an effortlessly breezy sequence of aces between the full bodied vox of Black R, K. Dalo & Lah Presh on the ambient-ampiano house of ‘Thando’ thru the concentrated funk of ‘Akulalwa’, to the brooding tension of ‘Bo Mbali Leboh Palesa’ or ‘Mekete’, and weightless-to-rugged ace ‘Lepiano’, with pitch-bent melodies recalling DJ Mujava's ‘Township Funk’ on ‘Lovey’, and plucked syn-strings even echoing earliest Irdial in ‘Drive Through’.
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Pretoria, SA amapiano dynamo DJ Black Low weighs in a vocal-heavy and triple deep suite of log drums and sultry vibes on his 3rd and definitive album for Awesome Tapes From Africa
Flagged as one of amapiano’s most distinctive producers since 2021’s ‘Uwami’ album, DJ Black Low’s sound is subtly distinguished by a multi-instrumentalist palette puckered into memorable melodies. On his 3rd and most substantial album yet, he plays to amapiano’s deepest house inspirations with a dozen aces, almost all vocalled by a panoply of local artists who share the mic over plush variations elevated by his harmonious arrangements of keys, synth pads and string samples alloyed to that deadly, signature amapiano bop.
Where we had been initially attracted to the mix of dark but playful instrumental hooks and grooves of ‘Downfall Revisit’ and Alone in a Dark’ off his first LP, here we’re seduced by an abundance of vocals and the woozy, dusky, jazz suss of ‘Impumelelo’. Meaning “success” in Zulu, the title signifies a cool confidence in Black Low’s style this time, resulting an effortlessly breezy sequence of aces between the full bodied vox of Black R, K. Dalo & Lah Presh on the ambient-ampiano house of ‘Thando’ thru the concentrated funk of ‘Akulalwa’, to the brooding tension of ‘Bo Mbali Leboh Palesa’ or ‘Mekete’, and weightless-to-rugged ace ‘Lepiano’, with pitch-bent melodies recalling DJ Mujava's ‘Township Funk’ on ‘Lovey’, and plucked syn-strings even echoing earliest Irdial in ‘Drive Through’.
Pretoria, SA amapiano dynamo DJ Black Low weighs in a vocal-heavy and triple deep suite of log drums and sultry vibes on his 3rd and definitive album for Awesome Tapes From Africa
Flagged as one of amapiano’s most distinctive producers since 2021’s ‘Uwami’ album, DJ Black Low’s sound is subtly distinguished by a multi-instrumentalist palette puckered into memorable melodies. On his 3rd and most substantial album yet, he plays to amapiano’s deepest house inspirations with a dozen aces, almost all vocalled by a panoply of local artists who share the mic over plush variations elevated by his harmonious arrangements of keys, synth pads and string samples alloyed to that deadly, signature amapiano bop.
Where we had been initially attracted to the mix of dark but playful instrumental hooks and grooves of ‘Downfall Revisit’ and Alone in a Dark’ off his first LP, here we’re seduced by an abundance of vocals and the woozy, dusky, jazz suss of ‘Impumelelo’. Meaning “success” in Zulu, the title signifies a cool confidence in Black Low’s style this time, resulting an effortlessly breezy sequence of aces between the full bodied vox of Black R, K. Dalo & Lah Presh on the ambient-ampiano house of ‘Thando’ thru the concentrated funk of ‘Akulalwa’, to the brooding tension of ‘Bo Mbali Leboh Palesa’ or ‘Mekete’, and weightless-to-rugged ace ‘Lepiano’, with pitch-bent melodies recalling DJ Mujava's ‘Township Funk’ on ‘Lovey’, and plucked syn-strings even echoing earliest Irdial in ‘Drive Through’.
Pretoria, SA amapiano dynamo DJ Black Low weighs in a vocal-heavy and triple deep suite of log drums and sultry vibes on his 3rd and definitive album for Awesome Tapes From Africa
Flagged as one of amapiano’s most distinctive producers since 2021’s ‘Uwami’ album, DJ Black Low’s sound is subtly distinguished by a multi-instrumentalist palette puckered into memorable melodies. On his 3rd and most substantial album yet, he plays to amapiano’s deepest house inspirations with a dozen aces, almost all vocalled by a panoply of local artists who share the mic over plush variations elevated by his harmonious arrangements of keys, synth pads and string samples alloyed to that deadly, signature amapiano bop.
Where we had been initially attracted to the mix of dark but playful instrumental hooks and grooves of ‘Downfall Revisit’ and Alone in a Dark’ off his first LP, here we’re seduced by an abundance of vocals and the woozy, dusky, jazz suss of ‘Impumelelo’. Meaning “success” in Zulu, the title signifies a cool confidence in Black Low’s style this time, resulting an effortlessly breezy sequence of aces between the full bodied vox of Black R, K. Dalo & Lah Presh on the ambient-ampiano house of ‘Thando’ thru the concentrated funk of ‘Akulalwa’, to the brooding tension of ‘Bo Mbali Leboh Palesa’ or ‘Mekete’, and weightless-to-rugged ace ‘Lepiano’, with pitch-bent melodies recalling DJ Mujava's ‘Township Funk’ on ‘Lovey’, and plucked syn-strings even echoing earliest Irdial in ‘Drive Through’.
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Pretoria, SA amapiano dynamo DJ Black Low weighs in a vocal-heavy and triple deep suite of log drums and sultry vibes on his 3rd and definitive album for Awesome Tapes From Africa
Flagged as one of amapiano’s most distinctive producers since 2021’s ‘Uwami’ album, DJ Black Low’s sound is subtly distinguished by a multi-instrumentalist palette puckered into memorable melodies. On his 3rd and most substantial album yet, he plays to amapiano’s deepest house inspirations with a dozen aces, almost all vocalled by a panoply of local artists who share the mic over plush variations elevated by his harmonious arrangements of keys, synth pads and string samples alloyed to that deadly, signature amapiano bop.
Where we had been initially attracted to the mix of dark but playful instrumental hooks and grooves of ‘Downfall Revisit’ and Alone in a Dark’ off his first LP, here we’re seduced by an abundance of vocals and the woozy, dusky, jazz suss of ‘Impumelelo’. Meaning “success” in Zulu, the title signifies a cool confidence in Black Low’s style this time, resulting an effortlessly breezy sequence of aces between the full bodied vox of Black R, K. Dalo & Lah Presh on the ambient-ampiano house of ‘Thando’ thru the concentrated funk of ‘Akulalwa’, to the brooding tension of ‘Bo Mbali Leboh Palesa’ or ‘Mekete’, and weightless-to-rugged ace ‘Lepiano’, with pitch-bent melodies recalling DJ Mujava's ‘Township Funk’ on ‘Lovey’, and plucked syn-strings even echoing earliest Irdial in ‘Drive Through’.