Exploring the other side of OR Tambo
Initiative brings together best global and SA artists to honour giant
When acclaimed Afrikaans poet Antjie Krog was invited to take part in the recording of a new musical initiative Voices on OR: A Musical Tribute for Oliver Tambo by producer and music promoter Wandile Yani, she was ecstatic, regarding it as a huge honour. The project Yani has been working on since 2012 is eventually coming together, with high-profile musicians from SA and the US, poets, authors, politicians and intellectuals collaborating. So far more than 200 voices have been recorded for a double album that will be able to accommodate only 24 songs, giving award-winning jazz saxophonist McCoy Mrubata the difficult job of piecing together the voices with instruments to form a coherent audio narrative of a man who provided quality leadership and foresight during the fight for freedom, especially when the ANC was in exile. "OR Tambo’s narrative in the main has always been one sided, as he has been regarded as mainly as a freedom fighter and lawyer — and yet there are so many layers to...
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