Musos jam it up with the sea and nature
Corona Sunset Festival World Tour gets artists to use natural elements in their music
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American Grammy award-winning DJ Louie Vega joined SA musical acts Sun-El Musician, Black Motion and Msaki for the Corona Sunset Festival World Tour at Glen Country Club in Clifton, Cape Town, on Saturday.
SA, along with 14 countries – Chile, Peru, Colombia, Italy, Japan, Canada, UK, China, Greece, Brazil, Dominican Republic, India and Uruguay – will host the year-long festival across beaches chosen for their iconic sunsets.
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The festival’s continued collaboration with environmentalists was extended into the music world with the South African Music Awards (Samas) winners Sun-El Musician and Msaki re-making their smash hit Ubomi Abumanga, featuring the unique sounds of Llandudno Beach in Cape Town as the voice of nature.
“The collaboration with Sun-El was just like a day out with a friend, as we usually bond over nature, and the brief was to incorporate nature into a composition or re-imagining a song that already existed. We used elements of the waves crashing against the rocks, the sound of the reeds and the crashing of the sticks. It was just a natural process. And we found that the sea [Llandudno Beach] was a profound collaborator and it was truly special,” said Msaki.
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