Spaza – Spaza [Mushroom Hour/Half Hour; June 2019]
Cementing Johannesburg as the third point in the triangle of modern jazz, Spaza album transcends the traditional boundaries of genres to create something captivating, original and outstanding.
The name Spaza means a local, informal shop, developed in people’s garages during the apartheid. The coming together of the communities at these local marketplaces has formed the concept behind the album; a spontaneous, improvised series of songs that came together as if by accident to form a community.
Alex Fox