THE HOUSE OF SUN-EL: Sun-El Musician, Simmy, Mlindo The Vocalist, and other related artists

Nobuhle, best known for her feature on Sun-El’s “Never Never”, has a new song out, “Phezulu”, produced by Kenza (no Claudio):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUSpgPm9OUE

This is how she sung it live back in June:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tz7ngRcC9w

(I can't help but miss this thread, but see the post above - the beauty is still on duty, it just moved to a different location!)

I made a Spotify playlist with (almost) everything posted in the MZANSI MUZIQ 2021 🇿🇦 Rolling South African thread as well as South(ern) African tracks posted this year on other threads, like this one:

ILM rolling 🇿🇦 Mzansi MusiQ 2021 🇸🇿 🇳🇦

Kenza (without Claudio) with Ami Faku --->>

"Sihlobo Sami": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3I6WvQGwFA

love that track.

Sweet and intoxicating, a few steps short of transcendental, really few. Love the vocals. There's also an extended mix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ1CgbfIYik
Sun-EL Musician - Portia's Chant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZkcF5lzN3k
Sun-El Musician - Higher feat. Simmy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fXZqYgYfBA
Sun-El Musician - (more) Higher feat. Simmy

just listened to this <33333

great tune

oh it's gorgeous

Very uplifting comedown music

this is fucking good

what a song. love everything they do together.

i like side b ("ululate") of the single he just put out

this is so beautiful

"Wawundithembisile" - The One Who Sings ft. Sun-El Musician and Kenza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExkZRexTaiM

Sun-El's new album African Electronic Dance Music is out today, a little more palatable than the last one at "only" one hour & 3 minutes. The first four and last two tracks on initial contact seem like the highlights

ooh thanks! surprised this isn't getting more attention...

The whole thing is great.

need to listen to it asap

honestly, i slept on the last one. it's definitely way too long, but i really like disc 2 and disc 1 has several great tracks too

I love him but his work is so samey it can be hard to pick out highlights. Not really a criticism but if I’m enthusing about him, I’ll still send friends to Akanamali first.

Or Emakhaya. Ok there’s a few…

yeah the last album definitely suffered from being nearly 3 hours, i'm sure it would have been much more enjoyable if you cut it down to the best hour or less, but getting to that point would be a real challenge

new one seems better on first listen, though the vocal tracks are notably stronger than the instrumentals

love the album all the way thru

tho he has something of a signature aesthetic i don't know if it's quite fair to call his music samey. there are a few tracks on here that i would not have guessed were by him if they'd been in the middle of a mix/comp or something

it's only really an issue over the course of a 3 hour album

The number of tracks seems to come from a place of generosity, though, rather than “lack of quality control”

Three quarters of this - the first half and last few songs - are excellent. "Amateki," "Higher," and "Bestfriend" especially. "Amateki" is an immediate mood boost. "Higher" has a spiritual quality to it and is one of my favorite tracks of the year. The third-quarter of the album, which consists of instrumental afro-house tracks "Jozi", "Spiritual Bomb," and "Alone" I wish was about 10 minutes shorter.

https://ra.co/features/3968

still the best thing Sun-El has been involved in this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k05g9_Yo7fI
Miči ft. Sun-El Musician • Respond

one of my favs ❤️

Sun-El doesn’t make amapiano (although some remarks and posts here and elsewhere suggest otherwise), but I’m hoping this poll I created might get the amapiano party started again on ILM, because we’re seriously logging… lagging behind. here’s your invitation - I hope you will all participate:

drowning in a blissful ocean of log drums and keys: 🎹🎹 amapiano a-z 🎹🎹 an ilm poll

not Sun-El, but this is a production by fellow Afro House adept (and sometimes collaborator) Thakzin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3o_c2pCtA
Nana Atta ft. DJ Thakzin • Libalele

(I haven’t listened to the rest of the Emakhosini EP it’s from yet)

^^^ very good little EP. made me realise how little afro house I’ve been listening to in the past year or so (post-“Osama” perhaps?) - too much piano, too little time basically.

I loooove “Nyoni”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO3W3YUH6zI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTYV_8ef0a8
Msaki ft. Sun-El Musician • Pata Pata Saguquka

Hmmm, think I recognize the chorus of that from somewhere else? Possible cover?

are you in jest, sir?

https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/sa-miriam-makeba-featured-new-whisky-ad

from the new Murumba Pitch album (which is otherwise firmly and delectably in the piano camp):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJsdfOkr-o
Murumba Pitch ft. Ami Faku & Sun-El Musician • Esikhathini

not sun-el, altho a callaborator...has anyone listened to karyendasoul's 'we live 4 our music'? i havent really stopped listening to it for the last month

i dont know whats my favorite on this, but my shortlist is "juba", "mngani wam", "umthandazo", "umoya, "jacaranda" (which is half the album).

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkxvR5h7irQsPpq-AHY7QE3fb9KJ8bhxG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31d8F0v4VWo

and not for nothing his collabs with zakes bantwini have been incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mu3D6FqyYw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_O5pHq6myw