Thread for the AmaPiano awesomeness that is “Baby Are You Coming?” by Zero12finest feat. ThaMagnificent2

Other relevant South African threads:

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

🎹🎹PİANO! PİANO!🎹🎹 - a song appreciation thread for ”eMcimbini” by Kabza De Small & DJ Maphorisa ft. Aymos, Samthing Soweto, Mas Musiq & Myztro

Gqompetition time: two songs, two videos - QDOT vs SHADO M

Jobe London & Mphow69 - Sukendleleni (feat. Kamo Manje)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3OTClCxDyk

Who's behind the song 'Life Ya Bora' ? Just ridic

https://somculo.com/download-mp3/life-ya-bora-amapiano/

That's actually "Empa Nna" by Jusca x Plee ft. Zing Master & Mabozza. I posted it upthread, back in December. That whole Jusca x Plee album is great.

ahhhhh!!

So it is!!!

Empa nna is excellent.

wow "Mwari" is really wild! I love how much of this stuff still sounds as raw as something like Township Funk

The whole Mhaw Keys EP (The Outcast)
is awesome, deeeep amapiano house.

Kabza is on the only non-piano track, which I will post on the Sun-El thread.

“Ngena Nyoro” and “Umamakhe” are some of the other highlights.

For all fans of "Labantwana Ama Uber" and/or "Lorch":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wy0cfA23iQ
Semi Tee ft. Ma Lemon • Lemonade

and/or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZHNrwUxP1k
Semi Tee ft. Miano, Kammu Dee & Ora Dee • Gabadiya

"Gabadiya" in particular is **dense** and there are some percussive things going on in both of these that seem new in amapiano.

*dense* is the word. I have not quite warmed to these yet but I believe I'm on my way.

Flavours of Amapiano:

The organ-infused original, with an exciting helping of drum distortion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMDg3aMTz7g
JohnBravo ft. Caltonic SA • Thuma Mina (Freestyle)

Would you like some violin with that piano? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DDe8RMG0mk
Mr JazziQ x JazziDisciples ft. Vigro Deep & Rams De Violinist • Blue Skies

Indian, with Niniola as a bonus ingredient:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqO5x_P1XIg
Shuffle Muzik ft. Niniola, Master KG & Mr Brown • Putirika

(from Shuffle Muzik’s groooooovy Stimela album – also check “Putirika (Revisit)”)

Btw, this means last year’s club hit “Tanqueray” (with cheesy sax flavour) is now finally available on Spotify (and I guess other streaming platforms):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdlKlnf5GNI
Shuffle Muzik ft. MasterPiece, SnowDeep, Zero12Finest & JaySax • Tanqueray

Blending a timeless SA house vocal with amapiano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxPu95Vnc20
ThackzinDJ ft. Boohle & Teejay • Izwelonke

More of that Thackzin fusion flavour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XntkbENJu9M
Daliwonga ft. ThackzinDJ & Shaun101 • Ebusuku

Chef’s kiss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBGfCZfogjc
#Chelete • Ama CV

So many great amapiano albums coming out as well. The Shuffle Muzik mentioned above especially is sounding like an early lock for the EOY, along with the Scorpion Kings Live and the Mhaw Keys “EP”, but there’s lots of good stuff on ThackzinDJ’s Ingqumbo Yeminyanya (The Wrath of the Ancestors) EP and Mr JazziQ x JazziDisciples’s 0303 album as well.

"Mdzango" with TallArseTee and "No. 9" with the equally charmingly named Hip-naughtic Sean are other favs on 0303.

As others have mentioned, the AmaPiano Grooves playlist on Spotify is a good way to keep up with this stuff. I came across both “Ama CV” and “Thuma Mina (Freestyle)” there. (The latter has now unfortunately been removed from Spotify however.)

sorry for piano rocking

It is welcome!

was beginning to think corona killed the piano thread

nah, just hard to get hyped about fun dance music right now i think

if you feel that way, the Mhaw Keys EP might surprise you - “fun” is not the operative word there.

having a go at it

Still amazed by Tikoloshi. So raw.

did Mhaw Keys fit your mood, forks?

(btw, best to skip the first two tracks the first time around, they have a different vibe than the core tracks)

Reposting this broken YouTube link:

Vigro Deep ft. Sdala The Vocalist • International

JohnBravo & Caltonic SA’s “Thuma Mina (Freestyle)” is back up on Spotify btw.

Video for Semi Tee’s “Gabadiya” (as posted by Nabozo on the Rolling Afro thread):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-zuBeqNrwY

More Semi Tee & friends content:

First official video for a Scorpion Kings hit track is for "Lorch" (the “Koko” vid was more of a mission statement, and “Nana Thula” was from the Piano Hub album). It’s a criminally short edit tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfuEP0fDrvY
Kabza De Small & DJ Maphorisa ft. Semi Tee, Miano & Kammu Dee • Lorch

(btw, I didn’t know that a) Maphorisa is rapping on this and b) the song is about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thembinkosi_Lorch)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-9AF-IxG98

the "Gabadiya" video was removed for some reason, now it's back up.

Love this track (it’s the closing track again) from Future Majesties & Bafo’s Ubuzukuzuku (The Struggle) album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B61JYzqq1YE
Future Majesties & Bafo • S’bonga Abazali

(Other good tracks: “S’yeza” and “Ungam’bambi”)

Amapiano wedding invasion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2L6OiMMeNM

catching up on this thread and i love "gabadiya"

those two shuffle muzik tracks rule too, will have to listen to the album soon.

In the Lorch/Phoyisa continuum >>> sounds like a hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ProUQmyGaM
Tyler ICU ft. Focalistic, Masterpiece, DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small • Kwarentin

“Take me back to December, 2019 / I even miss the bouncer”

^absolute anthem, might adopt that spelling tbrr

yup, banger

As first heard in Kabza & Porry’s first Quarantine Party mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9MqkxR9D08
Mfr Souls ft. Kwesta & GP Ma Orange • Krrrr (Phum’imali)

Another good one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHH9wTGb08I
Semi Tee ft. Focalistic • Mercedes

Riding the piano train:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rqf7pdWUtI
DJ Big Sky ft. Sbhanga & Gaba Cannal • KhushuKhushu

And a double whammy from Kaygee & Bizizi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki1jo8BJ3Ik
Kaygee DaKing & Bizizi ft. Team Mosha • December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDcVEjw9ggM
Kaygee DaKing & Bizizi • Sendi Location

Reminder that these amapiano bangers are part and parcel of ILM’s own rolling✳️all-inclusive✳️afro 2020 playlist

Dense, Dense, Dense (Yebo, Yebo, Yebo):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZcHIODWKZ4
Semi Tee ft. Kammu Dee & Njelic • Stayla

I know I shouldn’t bother because there’s hardly anyone left here anymore, but these are some serious bangers, y”all”.

no, keep it up. stayla was a great addition to my weekend.

I have to admit, I might have hit a bit of a wall with amapiano. I can hear the quality in the last few tracks you posted, but I get a little restless when some of the more familiar elements come in. And of course, there's likely something lost in hearing this stuff sat in front of a laptop with headphones on. I've had that thought before though and then been surprised by something new, so I'm not giving up on it, but I'm finding myself less excited to set aside time to check new tracks

I'm kinda lost in the afro/SA/amapiano threads atm but please tell me someone has already posted the very addictive "Piano Piano" by Alfa Kat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2H1ARs8udo

This is the catchiest jam for me right now – apparently it’s Zimbabwean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh_amXZNE0I
Xavier ft. Jahbue & Tinah • I Don’t Know

Update: Xavier is apparently an SA-born, Zimbabwe-raised, (in 2016 at least) UK-based comedian (would explain that British bit).
More importantly, he seems to have jacked that “I don’t know but I think I know” hook from the Zimbabwean track “I Donno” by Chakie & DJ Spuzza from earlier this year (here’s some people getting down to it). Still think Xavier’s is the better jam tho.

But I have to give it to Spuzza, the *other* track he dropped this year is an absolute monster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL9lGCeKtGk
DJ Spuzza ft. Chester Houseprince, Don Kamati, MEGA & Chakie • Soek Soek

(keep forgetting that Afrikaans is somewhat of a lingua franca in Namibia. A lot of these lyrics are easily understood by the Dutch speaker that I am)

And holy wow at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBtX7kO4b1o
Kabza De Small ft. Wizkid • Need You Tonight