GLASKAS: VOLSTOOM VOORUIT!

Juvenile

By phenyo lewanika

he stars align as I descend into

I am spiralling, I am blind to despair’s conniving Can the damned be saved? I seek guidance from the Ancient But, the sky is empty, The Bible is empathy. I am blessed with mastery over Yet, I am in the clouds Surrounded by nature‘s fellows. I cling on to my sanity, But, how do you hold onto a mirage? Creation is fragile, Do you understand me?

A thought arrives and makes It makes no sense, This possession of power may Static clogs the membrane surrounding It is my divine right to whisper Blessed are the beautiful, And fruitful are the poets that It is futile, I do not understand this juvenile I know better, I seek clarity in a subservient This is a forlorn attempt. I do not know better. They cry out, I am the daughter I refuse to visit Eden, The weeds have overstayed their This is a mess of intertwined into madness, conniving plan, Ancient Teacher over pen and word, fellows. mirage?

EBEN LABUSCHAGNE

itself at home, not be real, surrounding my thoughts. whisper in vain, that roam the realms. juvenile insanity. subservient reality, daughter of Cain. their welcome, thoughts that are childish.

When first introduced to Dank Neighbourhood a month ago, it felt like I’d been let in on the local music scene’s best kept secret. With an impeccable sense of feel and vibe, the Neighbourhood launched a graceful assault on my uninitiated ears. From the moodshifting melancholy of ‘Grandma’s Piano’ to the disturbingly surreal ‘Supunapena’, thus far the group have demonstrated a broad yet impressively cohesive sound unlike anything I’ve heard coming from the Western Cape. The best part is that there is more on the way…

Boasting eleven members, Dank Neighbourhood has an interesting creative process. With multiple rappers and three producers (or ‘beat makers’ as they like to call themselves), producer and finisher, Marcel van der Veen, sheds some light on the production process.

“How we mainly work is each person or each producer has his own beats that he makes. The producer will present the beat to all of the oaks that want to rap on it. Then the guys that want to rap on it will choose like, ‘I like that, I want to be on that.’ The dibs process Is quite intense sometimes.

Sometimes we work together on one beat, that sometimes happens as well,” he says.

Rapper Twesigye Paul Twekye says most of their writing and recording happens individually, although for their upcoming project he says, “For the first half of the album most of the