Our guest on the Breakfast Zone on Thursday..Guy Collins from MEAN BLACK MAMBA, seen here with BZ trainee Ziphozihle Dibela. Raw foot stomping roots music that grooves your body and soul. Guitarist & singer Guy Collins & drummer extraordinaire James van Minnen, are afro swamp gospel prophets in the temple of cosmic delta juju. Born on the southern tip of Africa, Guy Collins has been playing guitar for most of his years. His interest really took off when he was 15 on a warm day. The long distance groove from somewhere in the American south, Howlin Wolf on Highway 49, beamed into the living room. African roots, blues, rock ‘n roll. A continual search for an elusive sound. James van Minnen can extract a beat from a feather and a shoe if it were asked of him; seated at his drums he appears as a blur of limbs and crashing steel from which infectious rhythms emanate in metronomic waves...he infuses African and Middle Eastern rhythms into songs with hypnotic effect” Mahala Review (voted in the top 25 artists of 2012 by IMR Magazine) Words of humor and hope sliding between writhing riffs and the insistent thump of a cowhide drum. This is afro swamp gospel, this is blues n’ roll. Gritty & hard hitting, the music winds you off the floor and twists you to your feet. Fresh. Cosmic delta juju. Like its name-snake, mean with a smile on its face. Website soundcloud/meanblackmamba Guy Collins +27 (0)729970152 guy@meanblackmamba meanblackmamba facebook/meanblackmamba @MeanBlackMamba@MeanBlackMamba
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:59:06 +0000
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