SKETCHBOOK
Nicolaas Maritz
DIGITAL SKETCHBOOK Nicolaas Maritz
Nemesia*Press DARLING 2015
CONTENTS Introduction Landscape Tree Insect Garden Animal Still Life Stranger Links
Apart from painting with paint and brushes, which is very traditional, and up until now my usual messy medium, I have inevitably also been drawn into the neat and tidy world of digital image making. No mess no fuss, one might say. It is difficult to accurately describe these digital images because they often strongly resemble ‘real’ drawings, paintings, prints or watercolours. People often ask how ‘big’ the images are, assuming that they are photographs of actual art works, and one has to explain that they are digital, yet not completely ‘virtual’. It’s all a bit akin to sleight of hand.
INTRODUCTION
In this catalogue the images are grouped according to subject matter. Most of the categories reflect phases from my painting work, like the Trees, Still Lifes and Insects, and can be regarded as extensions of colour and other formal ideas that didn’t manifest in the paintings. Other groupings are exclusive to my digital activities, like Strangers and Gardens, and are random sketches which are not necessarily going to lead to ‘actual’ paintings. I have prefaced each chapter with the English translation of a Zen haiku. Nicolaas Maritz Email: bignick098@gmail.com Web: https://sites.google.com/site/nicolaasmaritzgallery/
Darling December 2015 All digital images in this catalogue by Nicolaas Maritz are © Nicolaas Maritz
Both stones and trees Glare on the eye In this heat. KYORAI
LANDSCAPE
Windy Clouds over Darling Hills, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Rainy Day in Darling, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Darling Dust Devils, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Island Ridge II, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Island Ridge I, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Pringle Bay Rocks, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Dark Darling Day, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Darling Pollen View, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Winter Black Darling Hills, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Limpopo Hills, 2012 Digital drawing. Dimensions variable
Koppie, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Pink Stone Hill, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Gusty Spring, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Red Canoe Sunrise, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Liquid Planet, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Crystal Cold View, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Pink Darling Hills, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Pink Darling Wheat fields, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Limpopo Evening (Autumn), 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Limpopo Evening (Summer), 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Blue Thorn Limpopo View, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Impenetrable Island Interior, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Bethulie Poplars (Summer), 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Bethulie Poplars (Autumn), 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Thabazimbi Hill (Night), 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Thabazimbi Hill (Daylight), 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Bethulie Koppie (Late Autumn), 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Bethulie Koppie (Early Autumn), 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Green Dwaalboom Hills (Spring), 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Green Dwaalboom Hills (Summer), 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Hot Lowveld View, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Mine Shafts at Thabazimbi, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Karoobult (Night), 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Karoobult (Day), 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Langebaan Lagoon with Clouds, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Night Lagoon, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
While they are away Leaves pile up In the gardens of the gods. BASHĂ•
TREE
Snake and Egg View, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Lowveld View, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Three Thorn Trees, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Two Pale Thorns, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Two Blue Thorns, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Three Karoobult Thorns, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Three Fever Trees, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Milk Thorn, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Hot Thorn Tree, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Lekker Red Thorn, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Two Sweet Thorns, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Thorn Trees at Olifants, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Olifants River Bank, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Dead Tree at Olifants River, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Olifants River Thorns, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Two Thorn Bushes, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Acacia Bush 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Above: Sweet Thorn, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Right: Two Red Camel Thorns, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Blue Sweet Thorn, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Purple Umbrella Thorn, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
A fallen flower Flew back to it’s perch A butterfly. MORITAKE
INSECT
Lesser Vampire Gnat, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Suburban Tsetse Fly, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Schlumpfish Beetle, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Green Poop Fly, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Island Bug II, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Island Bug I, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Island Bug III, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Island Bug IV, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Green Gumptious Gnat, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Blue Bearded Pooper, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Pustular Blue Pooper, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Spineless West Coast Whippersnapper, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Darling Prawn, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Speckled West Coast Ant Lion, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Painted Ladybug, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Greater Battiss Beetle, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Lesser Capetonian Guppy Beetle, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Amorphous Saldanha Slime Bugs, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Malmesbury Prickly Wine Fly, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Small Eyed Darling Slime Bug, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Blue Lipped Sucker Bug, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Wooly Mealie Louse, 2010 Digital drawing. Dimensions variable
Gay Cape Mosquito, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Red Lipped Gnat, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
I break my fast Amongst the morning glory. BASHĂ•
GARDEN
Purple Spider Nest, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Insect Skeleton, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
My Dirty Darling Pond, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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White Worm Pond, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Night Wind Garden, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Nemesia Street Night Garden, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Purple Nest, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Twiggy Nest, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Turd Plethora, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Darling Wind Garden, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Hairy Cat Turds in the Garden, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Compost Beauty, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Abstract Garden, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Daisies in the Gust, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Darling Summer Wind I, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Darling Summer Wind II, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Prawn Plakkie, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Plain Old Plakkie, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Boldistic Garden Design, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Adorable Paving Design, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Surreptitiously Watering the Garden, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Dark Garden Path, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Earthworm Paradise, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Winter Wind Pattern, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Darling Spring Gardener’s Eye, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Prize Fuckin Dahlia, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Blooming Red Blom, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Bloomin Green Blom, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
The wild geese Ate my young blades of barley But see them go‌ YASUI
ANIMAL
Elephant Digestion, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Blue Lipped Lion, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Rhino and Friend, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Segmented Rhino, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Cool Sea Life, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Snorting Rhino, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Light Blue Charmer, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Fashionfant, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
West Coast Harpy, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Elephantine, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Threadbare Pet, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Ancient Doggiekins, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Dorinda, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Peterkins, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Liefie, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Pink Toed Chameleon, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Bleating Crow, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Green Titular Crow, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Rastafarian Ant Lion, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Swartland Ant Lion, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Animal Skull, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Charming Skulls, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Turd Investigation, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Small Town Pooper, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
In the octopus’s jar A fleeting dream Beneath the summer moon. BASHÕ
STILL LIFE
Six Summery Lemons, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Cheese with Cloudless Sky, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Calabashes with Clouds, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Dark Fruit View, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Tropical Fruit View, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Summer Fruit with Square Platter, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Mottled Fruit with Clouds, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Lime Zest View, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Skull and Tree Snake View, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Lemon and Emerald Snake View, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Intellectual Still Life I, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Sordid Still Life Details, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Intellectual Still Life II, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Intellectual Still Life III, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Bunched Textiles I, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Bunched Textiles II, 2011 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Grass Snake View, 2012 Digital drawing, Dimensions variable
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Lufa and Footsie View, 2012 Digital drawing, Dimensions variable
Slimed Up Salamander Still Life, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Still Life with Long Cheese Straw, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Red Therianthrope and Mottled Snake View, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Lesser Dreamcoat Snake at Reptile House, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Tropical Fruit and Nuts I, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Tropical Fruit and Nuts II, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Long Mushroom Still Life, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Oblong Mushroom Still Life, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Still Life with Two Speckled Eggs, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Still Life with Crochetwork Doily, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Still Life Design, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Still Life Eye, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Fruit on a Tablecloth, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Three Old Avocado View, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Skin Change Shebang, 2012 Digital drawing. Dimensions variable
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New Look Snakes, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Liquorice All Sorts Still Life, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Pink Sweeties Still Life, 2013 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
If I were the emperor Of a deserted island It would be nice. SĂ•SEKI
STRANGER
Suburban Siren, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Social Burnout, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Bleary Eyed I, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Bleary Eyed II, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Frog Woman, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Charming Chatterbox, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Ambivalent Friendship, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Three Village Gossips, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Fragmented Boy, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Sad Neighbour, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
The Emerald Necklace, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Rosy Complexion, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Village Moralists, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Village Artist, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Disgruntled Swallows, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Party Party, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Social Gaffe, 2012 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Village Intellectual, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Local Alien, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
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Strangers in the Street, 2010 Digital drawing Dimensions variable
Nicolaas Maritz: Art and Music Links ART https://sites.google.com/site/nicolaasmaritzgallery/ www.issuu.com/nicolaasmaritz http://issuu.com/nicolaasmaritz/docs/memeolas_2015/1 http://issuu.com/nicolaasmaritz/docs/memeolas_vol_2 http://issuu.com/nicolaasmaritz/docs/memeolas_2015_volume_3 http://bignick098.wix.com/nicolaas-maritz PROVINCIAL SNAKE JAZZ - Video Images Album http://issuu.com/nicolaasmaritz/docs/provincial_snake_jazz_booklet RHINO STOMPER - Video Images Album http://issuu.com/nicolaasmaritz/docs/rhino_stomper_catalogue_2015
MUSIC https://sites.google.com/site/nicolaasmaritzmusic/ https://soundcloud.com/nicolaasmaritz http://www.last.fm/user/NicolaasMaritz
MUSIC AVATARS https://soundcloud.com/vlooi-visagie-d-v-p https://soundcloud.com/herbalsyntax https://soundcloud.com/scrumpy-jones https://soundcloud.com/gilbert-finkel
VIDEO RHINO STOMPER (Nicolaas Maritz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDudXuSTLZI Antie by die bar (Vlooi Visagie and the Vaal Polony’s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZwfNudMik Lentebloeiselmars (Nicolaas Maritz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNAEBO_IRY4 KRISMIS BY DIE HUIS (Vlooi Visagie en Die Vaal Polony’s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sGNYnp7DLs Provincial Snake Jazz (Nicolaas Maritz with Vlooi Visagie and the Vaal Polony’s): https://youtu.be/XCMlMRjMaxE SKOMMELKLOKKIE (Vlooi Visagie and the Vaal Polony’s): https://youtu.be/bkPApNaf6V0
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