Over the last few decades, South Africa has become a new hub for exploratory music and sound art. A community of practitioners of experimental, improvisational, and avant-garde musicians focus on creating a supporting, nurturing environment, with innovative hybrids between African folk tradition, jazz, improvised music, drone music, experimental electronic, and everything in between. In this anthology,

USG tries to follow the most interesting clues of this emerging scene; from high skilled musicians who have been featured in prestigious festivals all around the world, to the subterranean DIY artists who utilize this hybridization and deconstruction of popular music genres, we see a new, growing movement. Many of these new musicians bring together the folk tradition of various indigenous Southern African musical instruments and other music languages, in the contemporary spirit of preservation and innovation.

Features: Nonentia, Mntana.WeXhwele, Pierre-Henri Wicomb, Nardus Niemand, Esther Marie Pauw & Garth Erasmus, Healer Oran, Aragorn23, Gwaing, The Texture Of Silence, hAshtAgblAck.n.o.i.s.e, Chantelle Gray, and Rhéa Dally. Ltd x 200 copies in a digipak.