The Quiet Conversation: Recent Episodes
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The Quiet Conversation with Qhakaza Mohare and Quaz Roodt explores the organic relationship between Spoken Word and Jazz.
The show focuses on poetry and jazz music but also features interviews with poets, musicians and various industry players. They spotlight poetry related events, review poetry and jazz projects and present a poem of the week for listeners to check out.
The final hour of #TheQuietConversation is dedicated to reading poetry on air.
In this this episode Quaz reads poems from the Poetry Potion Print editions Numbers 6, 9, 11 and 12 and Timbila 2000, while Qhakaza shares poems from Sarah Godsell’s Liquid Bones, Vangile Gantsho’s Red Cotton, Danai Mupotsa’s Feeling and Ugly, and Busisiwe Mahlangu’s Surviving Loss.
Qhakaza and Quaz are joined by celebrated singer-songwriter and poet Sió. They talk about her interesting upbringing in Ennerdale, her introduction to poetry and her early recording days. Sió shares highlights of her journey into electro music, unpacks the themes in her debut album Sbtxts and talks about her new album Features.
Sióbhan, Sió, “The Twilight child”, King is a storyteller, who uses music and poetry to tell her stories. A lover of words and melodies, the Johannesburg based songstress often gravitates towards dark imagery, weaving love, thoughtfulness and dash of rebellion in her work.
With a unique gift of storytelling and a voice to match, Sió has become a respected and much sought after vocalist both locally and abroad, with an uncanny ability to make hits that stand out, not only from the crowd, but each other.
Sió's Collaborations include: Luka, Jullian Gomes, rkls, Kid Fonque, Fred Everything, UPZ, Cuebur, Dwson And Charles Webster to name a few, with Remixes of the Hit Single 1000 Memories By Jullian Gomes reworked by the stellar quartet of Osùnlade, Fred Everything, Karizma, Atjazz and many more worldwide.
Qhakaza and Quaz open the #TheQuietConversation with a tribute to publisher and champion of South African literature; Nadia Goetham, who sadly passed away on the 25th April 2021. They share poems by Sarah Jones, Leshie Lovesong, Yamoria and Wole Soyinka. They also share poetry news and upcoming events and discuss the poll outcome on audience votes for the WordnSound Digital Slam.
TheQuietConversation with Makhafula Vilakazi
In this episode of #TheQuietConversation Qhakaza and Quaz are joined by renowned poet Makhafula Vilakazi. They talk about his early days as a young poet, the impact of Ntate Ike Mboneni Muila’s poetry on his own work and the inspiration behind the colourful and conflicted characters in his poems. They also unpack his new - very confrontational - poetry album, "Concerning Blacks".
Makhafula Vilakazi grew up in Chiawelo, Soweto. His poetry is a fusion of Tsotsitaal, English, Zulu and Sotho interspersed into an uncompromising depiction of township life, exploring issues which affect his community such as, unemployment and crime.
TheQuietConversation with Paul Mvulane Mnisi
In this episode of #TheQuietConversation Qhakaza and Quaz catch up with broadcasting royalty, Paul Mvulane Mnisi aka Rudeboy Paul. They take a walk down Paul’s past, revisiting his familial influences, and his early broadcasting days. They also chat about his stint as an award-winning editor and dissect the seminal role he played in getting poetry on radio through the Word of Mouth feature on YFM in the early 2000’s.
Paul Mvulane Mnisi is a renowned radio and television presenter, poet and award-winning editor.
TheQuietConversation with Napo Masheane
In this episode of #TheQuietConversation, poet, actress and playwright Napo Masheane joins Qhakaza and Quaz for a conversation about her work in theatre and poetry. They talk about her influences and the immeasurable impact of the poetry collective Feela Sistah. Napo also shares the origin of the title of her latest theatre production “My vagina was not buried with him”.
Napo is a recipient of the Mbokodo Award, Pan African Language Award, and South African Film & Television Award. She has to date published three poetry collections, Caves Speak in Metaphors (2009), Fat Songs For My Girlfriends (2012), and Heartbeat Of The Rain (2019).
The Quiet Conversation with Qhakaza Mohare and Quaz Roodt explores the organic relationship between Spoken Word and Jazz.
The show focuses on poetry and jazz music but also features interviews with poets, musicians and various industry players. They spotlight poetry related events, review poetry and jazz projects and present a poem of the week for listeners to check out.
The Quiet Conversation with Qhakaza Mohare and Quaz Roodt explores the organic relationship between Spoken Word and Jazz.
The show focuses on poetry and jazz music but also features interviews with poets, musicians and various industry players. They spotlight poetry related events, review poetry and jazz projects and present a poem of the week for listeners to check out.
The Quiet Conversation with Qhakaza Mohare and Quaz Roodt explores the organic relationship between Spoken Word and Jazz.
The show focuses on poetry and jazz music but also features interviews with poets, musicians and various industry players. They spotlight poetry related events, review poetry and jazz projects and present a poem of the week for listeners to check out.
In Episode One of The Quiet Conversation with Qhakaza Mthemby and Quaz Roodt, Masai Sepuru joins the duo to share his poetry journey and walk us through Black and Blues: A poetry study on the role of Jazz and the impact it had on Apartheid.
We are also introduced to two features on the show, Dissect-A-Poem and The Poem of the Week. In todays episode, Dr Raphael D'Abdon analyses the poem, 'Hip-Hop Ghazal' by Patricia Smith and The Poem if the Week is 'Element' by Belita Andre. Hip-Hop Ghazal By Patricia Smith · Element, a poem by Belita Andre · POET PROFILE: BELITA ANDRE · ABOUT PATRICIA SMITH · Masai Sepuru - Black and Blues: A poetry study on the role of Jazz and the impact it had on Apartheid.