THE HOUSE OF SUN-EL: Sun-El Musician, Simmy, Mlindo The Vocalist, and other related artists

all the early singles from the album are pretty great (though i can maybe do without the "happy birthday" cash grab)

Yeah, agreed, “Happy Birthday” is the weakest link here.

Wow, Akulaleki is one of the best songs I've heard all year

...which means you’ll have to check out Scorpion Kings as well, fred! Apart from table posting a track on the Rolling thread no one seems to have picked up on it, but it’s just so good all the way through.

Damn both those tracks are great! Gonna add Scorpion Kings to my massive to-listen pile as well, thanks for the tip

yeah those rule, will absolutely have to check out the full samthing album as well as scorpion kings

Yeah, Scorpion Kings is massive. Thanks breastcrawl!

Another good track with Samthing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2YfbJK98Fg
Prince Bulo ft. Samthing Soweto & Kid X • Ngibuyile

That live session I posted is/s/a vibe btw (I hadn’t checked it before)

To bring the thread back to Sun-El, these are some recent tracks he produced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_dlUT_xUIw
Sino Msolo • Intombi Yam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwAqCUu1CY
Sino Msolo • Ndikhetha Lowa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap6N67NcUuM
Mthunzi ft. Sun-El • Insimbi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAFKjNzjT1I
Ami Faku ft. Sun-El • Ndivulele

oh wow "Ndivulele" is incredible and "Intombi Yam" and "Ndikhetha Lowa" are lovely too

thank you very much for staying on top of all of this

ta, ufo. That Ami Faku track is from her album, which I have yet to listen to in full.

yeah, great stuff!

Lots of new South African stuff of potential interest to the followers of this thread was posted yesterday on the Rolling Afropop etc. thread. More or less arbitrarily, I’m posting this one here. More of the same, you might say, but it’s all (so) good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_ksYAZsuLI
MFR Souls ft. DJ Maphorisa, ShaSha & Kabza De Small • Love You Tonight

samthing album is so beautiful

yes, it’s like every time I’m playing it a new song starts revealing itself. today it happened with “Nodoli”.

On the cover of the Rolling Stone (well, not quite).

Is it too early to call all of this a beauty spree?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-rV1PZCGmA
Sha Sha ft. Samthing Soweto • Abondaba

(from a forthcoming EP? album? apparently - I posted her (and Maphorisa & Kabza’s) amapiano cover of “Sing It Back” on the Moloko thread)

latin beats now! would love it if amapiano bodied into that market.

Another Sha Sha beauty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp0g1BwWJMY

Sha Sha ft. DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small • Tender Love

From Amanda Black’s new album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENgHVn9clu8
Amanda Black ft. Ami Faku • Khumbula

really like "khumbula", will have to check out the album

Sha Sha/ShaSha is on all the good tracks these days, and Blossom, her 8-track debut EP, is absolutely wonderful. Apart from the tracks already posted upthread, I’m in love with the three songs in the middle, “Emazulwini”, “Mutare” and “Water”.

Yeah, really lovely ep! Kinda love the Moloko cover.

A year on, the Simmy album is still as magical as ever.

“Hamba Jumba” is the track that has secretly become my favourite: http://www.youtube.com/1srBiDlE9rE

Actually, “Nawe” has a video now, which is nice of course, but I’d love to hear something new from her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7jB36jPcUQ

“Hamba Jumba” again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1srBiDlE9rE

that’s “Hamba JUBA”. doing really nicely here...

yeh my personal fav but what a record

it really is. Would love to hear she has something new coming out before 2020...

finally got around to the Sha Sha EP (it's long enough to be an album really) and it's fantastic as expected

The Blossom EP might top all my year lists. Her voice is amazing. And I still can't get enough of Kabza de Small's productions.

Mutare is in Shona btw.

the Amanda Black album is really fantastic too

“Into Ingawe” is still gorgeous. There’s a video now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKaCbh8dqC8

More from the Sun-El realm:

Mamela, the debut album by Sun-El protégé Sino Msolo is very good. I posted the first two singles a while back, this is his latest video (for one of the least Sun-Elly tracks):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KprQC0F-7oU
Sino Msolo • Kaso

S-Tone (a guest vocalist on both Africa to the World and Tugela Fairy) also has an EP out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TtxUQXSObY
S-Tone • Imbizo

that Kaso is a jam, thanking you breastcrawl

new videos for Akulaleki and AmaDM here and for Lotto on the way for Samthing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlxDqJu6eUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35JcVWV6PiY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jky2fBbfr4M

all of this stuff is going to be a godsend today, a good vibes IV drip

Speechless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TFqhCvLuTg
DJ Stokie ft. Loxion Deep & Kabza De Small • Senorita

wow that's utterly sublime

I listed this in my most recent 11 favourite songs of the moment, fuck, but I never actually posted it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWm3qf5LD-g

DJ Sonic SA ft. Manqonqo & Tonic Jazz • Endlini

This is so beautiful. It’s South African - but in a more “international” house style. There might be a better thread for it, I’d like to know, I’ll post it there too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0qE7s4Iylo
J Maloe ft. Heidi B & Ceega wa Meropa • It Is Time

Another gorgeous KabZamthing, from the new The Return of the Scorpion Kings album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U98dgh9NSI4
Kabza De Small x DJ Maphorisa ft. Samthing Soweto • Chuze

(check the Rolling Afropop thread for more)

Because I love it/her so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYaH-Fa6Sjw

Video for “Tender Love”, Sha Sha’s very first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWrvCe5n4tE

Remember to vote🔸for the Blossom EP!

Just noticed the YouTube link for this is broken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbpv1TajH-o
DJ Stokie ft. Loxion Deep & Kabza De Small - Senorita

Spotify link. It’s votable🔶 material.

I posted it elsewhere already, but it belongs here too: my playlist with all the South African tracks and albums that were nominated for the EOY.

First 36 out of the 37 nominated tracks (Heavy K’s “Yebo Mama” is missing), from “Sondela” to “John Cena”, and after that the 9 nominated albums, from Sho Madjozi back down to Tresor.

ILM 2019 EOY🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA

mthunzi's "insimbi", a v nice track that was shared upthread a few months ago, now has a video out to accompany the release of his debut album selimathunzi just now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE82RA6ziaA

album also includes last year's "vuka" and "ngibambe la" + the more recent cut "elentulo"

It also has a track with Simmy - and this beautiful song with Ami Faku, “Uyathandeka”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo8mZjM666c

It’s quite a long album (16 tracks). Some of the best tracks are in the final section.