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#28/ 150919 “Life’s too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.” - Dr. Seuss

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Stalker 15 Rock Solid 33 Aberration / Byron Berry 43 Beach 2 Bush 69

COPY EDITING

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Faatimah Mohamed-Luke 21 Blessing Ngobeni 59

MUSIC: Dawn Chorus YoungstaCPT Fatherless children

27 37 76

LIFESTYLE: Alchemy 65

cONTENTS PHOTO Jess James Harris @Vjayjay820820 @Jessjamesharris The views and opinions expressed within the editorial and advertisements of THE LAKE do not necessarily reflect those of its staff, nor any of its associates.THE LAKE and anything contained within is copyright. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form whatsoever, copied or stored electronically without prior permission in writing from the publisher.

Christine Stewart COVER Photography On the cover Creative Direction Lighting Retouching

Hayden Phipps YoungstaCPT Stefan Naude Hayden Phipps

photography

contributors

Jess James Harris Jacqui Van Staden Al Luke Mark Reitz Sean Gibson Michael Oliver Love Byron Berry Alwine Groenewald Altus Kleinjan Groenewald Michael Hall Frantz Birkholtz

Dan Charles Frantz Birkholtz Rick De La Ray Everard Read

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NEWS VANS / Classics+ - City TRL Vans Classics+ introduces a new generation of all-terrain shoe with the City TRL. Replacing the Iso franchise, this brand-new design offers on-trend aesthetics, increased functionality and all day comfort, where ever your path may lead, and regardless of the elements you may encounter on the way. Anchoring the truly original design is Vans’ newest rubber technology, Future Rubber (Omni Waffle TBD), designed for optimum grip and cushioning on any terrain in every season. INFO: www.vans.com

ROASTIN RECORDS / MAC MOTEL –- Good Boy Mac Motel is finally releasing his debut LP, thanks to ROASTIN’ RECORDS. “Good Boy” is a selection of tracks, composed over a space in time where time is in fact, relative. 7 years and 3 studios later its finally ready. Mac Motel’s Good Boy is available on a Limited Edition Colour Vinyl. Pre-order yours from ROASTIN’ RECORDS, Cape Town’s purveyor of good music and independent vinyl releases. INFO: www.roastinrecords.com

PALLADIUM / PALLAKIX UGLYWORLDWIDE Iconic French footwear label PALLADIUM has joined forces with social media activist and model Jazzelle Zanaughtti aka @uglyworldwide to create a convention- challenging capsule collection titled PALLAKIX UGLYWORLDWIDE. The two first collaborated when Jazzelle took part in the PALLADIUM SS18 campaign alongside Octavian and Arthur Bray. “This shoe is a reminder to me that as people we are constantly healing, and that we should accept ourselves for who we are and where we’ve been” INFO: www.palladiumboots.co.za

Crystal Birch/ BEACH 2 BUSH SS20 Beach 2 Bush is all about looking, feeling and being fantastic wherever the scorching African sun shines. Is a hat really only for Summer...? Nah boo, don’t think so. It’s that special accessory within your Summer repertoire that you need to add a sprinkling of ‘je ne sais quoi’ to your blazing inner persona - may it be a fantastical Alluring Ariel or a new-age Jetsetting Jane. This summer, whether you are living la Vida Fabulous whilst sipping a spritzer in the fresh salty spray of the Atlantic or Bashing the Bundus whilst taming your wildly catty friends. INFO: www.therealcrystalbirch.com 04

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NEWS adidas Originals / Home of Classics Pack adidas Originals pays tribute to some of its most foundational silhouettes this month, bringing 10 essential sneakers – both archival and contemporary – into a single collection identified as Home of Classics. The classic footwear pack is a representation of 50 years of the brand’s expertise with white leather sneakers, reimagined for present day. Celebrating the enduring visual language of the archive and rendering the classic silhouettes in pinnacle crisp, white leather form, the Home of Classics features the following 10 silhouettes: INFO: www.adidas.co.za

Sealand Gear Born in Cape Town where mountains and ocean vividly connect, Sealand creates environmentally smart high-end Bags, Accessories and Apparel. We reuse the structural properties and textures of waste material in a new context while mitigating the generation of new waste and promoting environmentalism. We try to play our part for the environment and by supporting us you do too.

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SATORI NOTEBOOKS Can beautiful, well-made products be affordable, meaningful, personal, environmentally sensitive, and contribute directly to a thriving local economy? This is the question that Satori was born from. We felt that the humble notebook would be the perfect place to start. Because fresh ideas are the seeds of a brighter future, and a notebook is the perfect place to nurture your world-changing ideas. INFO: www.satorinotebookco.co.za

permanent record / XOLISO Hen’s tooth Afrocentric psych outlier from 1974 via the northeast fringe of Pretoria, South Africa. Building on the influence of acclaimed avant-gardists Malombo, Xoliso pushed Mamelodi’s nascent Afro-Jazz sound into the domain of Electric Tribal Rock and laced it with vocal chants, brittle fuzz, trippy flute and organ psychedelics. File between Assegai and Batsumi and in reach of the Beaters and Kabasa. Fully licensed 2019 vinyl reissue sees the album back in print for the first time in 45 years. INFO: www.permanentrecord.co.za 06

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Photographery: Gabriella Achadinha

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NEWS PUMA / KARL LAGERFELD PUMA and KARL LAGERFELD continue their successful partnership and team up once again to introduce a contemporary streetwear collection for men and women. Featuring must-have apparel and accessories, the designs are inspired by PUMA’s acclaimed archive pieces and timeless classics, reimagined with a modern, luxurious edge that is indicative of KARL LAGERFELD. The collection introduces PUMA’s legendary formstrip in a new and unique interpretation with an aesthetic twist through discovering new technical details INFO: www.puma.com

WORLDARTstreet Graffiti art isn’t easy to navigate – recognising who the most relevant and top street artists are is tricky. The obscurity of the art form plus difficulty to view and access, doesn’t help. WORLDARTstreet is on a mission to change this. Under the careful guidance of Warren Maroon, a selection of artworks by respected local names that include the likes of Nardstar*, Conform, Slegh and Bushy Not only can you see work by these artists and read more about them here, you can also purchase signed and numbered limited edition artworks. INFO: www.worldartstreet.com

Lomography / Fisheye 1 Red Fire up your analogue fantasies with the Fisheye One Red! Eye-popping in a vibrant outfit this camera will have you capturing the world around you in breathtaking 170 degrees. The camera also features a built-in flash so you can shoot great fisheye shots at any time of day. The fisheye view - Imagine everything above, below, and around you streaming through your eyes and compacting into a nice and compact little ball. INFO: www.exposuregallery.co.za

Dangerfields - Echoes & Pulses Created over the course of a harrowing two year period of severe personal ups and downs, Cape Townbased shoegazers Dangerfields present their debut full-length album Echoes & Pulses on vinyl only. With primal rhythms, atmospheric soundscapes and dreamy harmonies, Echoes & Pulses signifies the rollercoaster journey of trying to maintain normal human connections while fighting for survival. Pick up the vinyl record or vinyl +t-shirt combo. INFO: www.permanentrecord.co.za 08

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BUSHY | This is not a protest | Printed with pigment ink on True Fibre Matte 200gsm paper

Limited edition prints by South African graffiti and street artists

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NEWS Leatherman Skeletool RX Be ready to respond quickly and safely in emergency situations with the Skeletool RX. Specialized tools, such as a 154CM deeply serrated blade for more cutting surface on clothing or fibrous materials and carbide glass break bit, makes the Skeletool RX an essential piece of kit for any EMT or first responder. Specifications: Closed length: 4 in, 10 cm Weight: 5 oz,142 g Blade Length: 2.6 in, 6.60 cm INFO: www.justlikepapa.com

Converse X OPI collection It’s a colour eruption with nail polish manufacturer, OPI, adding a signature flair to its latest collaboration with Converse. Featuring rich, shiny, deep Tartan-inspired tones, the collection evokes an adventure in the Scottish fields, taking in the breathtaking views and cozy farmhouse fires. With a striking aesthetic comes a memorable name, try on “Things I’ve Seen in Aber-Green”, “Red Heads Ahead”, “Edinghburgh-er & Tatties” pink or “Good Girls Gone Plaid” purple. INFO: www.converse-sa.co.za

New Deal / 30th anniversary In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the launch of the NEW DEAL in 1990, the founders and artists dug deep in the crates to find previously unused original graphics, team rider videos, and ephemera from back in the day, and flipped them as graphics and designs for today! As we reimagine the NEW DEAL FOR 2020, we invite all our fans, collectors, artists, and collaborators to join us in changing the game again for 2020 and beyond...” INFO: www.baselineskateshop.com

Packrat Bag X-Large Carry all your belongings and spread an analogue message at the same time! With this Prophecies Packrat Bag in red you can show the whole world how to Let Loose. This extra-large red Prophecy Packrat Bag gathers all your daily wares and keeps them by your side in an easy-to-access tote bag. Whether slung over your shoulder or held in your hand, this Packrat bag carries everything that gets you through the day and that something extra too. A hanging interior pocket holds your most treasured camera at a fingers reach. INFO: www.exposuregallery.co.za 10

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Inspired by the OZWEEGO 3, a lightweight and comfortable cushion runner silhouette from 1998, the new OZWEEGO silhouette adopts a futuristic design approach with a distinctive eye stay panel, defined midsole lines, and a translucent support tube. The OZWEEGO features signature adiPRENE technology from the adidas archive, mutating adidas Originals DNA for creators today. Worn as a badge of honor and a symbol of technological innovation in footwear during the 90s, adiPRENE reimagines a performance from the past to create maximum comfort for the present. OZWEEGO is born out of a continued search for the future of footwear aesthetics and represents the spirit of a new generation of creators. A celebration of the brandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reimagining and dissecting of its past to create the icons of tomorrow, the OZWEEGO silhouette is the latest in the line of forward-thinking adidas Originals design.

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> INTERVIEW - RICK DE LA RAY

PHOTOGRAPHY - Jess James Harris

STALKER Jess James Harris “People and environments that are difficult to pigeon hole that make me feel something, generally it’s the visuals that make other people uncomfortable that I find beautiful.” Where are you from and how do you feel it has influenced the way you look at the world?

What inspires you and influences you and your work?

After living six years in J-bay my family moved back to Johannesburg in 88 and been I have been living in Cape Town for the past 7/8years. I started skating when I moved to Johannesburg as a replacement for surfing when I was six years old. The combination of Johannesburg and skateboarding, which both in my opinion are unlike any act or environment in terms of how fucking gnarly both can be depending on which road you choose to take. Both have made me look at the world from a different perspective.

People, environments that are difficult to pigeon hole that make me feel something, generally it’s the visuals that make other people uncomfortable that I find beautiful.

When and how did photography become a part of your life? I have just always been hyped on shooting photos from a very young age. My parents had a pretty basic 35mm, being a film camera it was more like a treat, I was only allowed to take one pic and then I had to give it back to them. These days kids are shooting and editing pics on phones. In 2005 I started travelling aboard a fair amount while shooting skate films, that’s when I bought a camera of my own and started documenting everything along the way.

Do you feel it’s important for creatives to be open about their experiences? Unless you can teach and share some of your knowledge than no, especially if there are legal implications involved. How important is composition to you in a picture and how do you approach your subject matter with that in mind? I wish I did more but generally, I get over-excited when I find something or someone that I want to capture in the moment. I shoot first and think after which works sometimes, other times it’s the difference between something cool and something just presents itself to me.

HIGH FIVES Souls of Mischief

Sizzla’

Cat Power

Dinosaur Jr

Fugazi

Be I Strong

You Are Free

BUG

Red medicine

1993

1999

2002

1988

Jive

Matador

SST

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You work as a DOP. Has your photography influenced your work in that filed or do you feel it goes visa Versa They are so different in my mind. I have such a different relationship with the two, it’s like two good friends of yours that you don’t want to introduce to each other. For me, it’s like someone saying you can skate so you will probably be good at surfing but it doesn’t work like that. The right answer is everything you ever do influences whatever you are going to do in the future. What medium do you prefer shooting in and what camera are you using at the moment? I like shooting with all cameras. Film to me is the best purely because of the element of surprise of not knowing what you going to get back from the lab. What drives you to capture an image? What type of situation appeals to you? Mostly myself in a car and the less traffic the better. Honestly, it all comes back to the environment I find myself in at that moment, if it’s new I’m generally full of energy however good or uncomfortable. I prefer anything that is not mundane. What is the most uncomfortable moment you have encountered while shooting? 18

Anytime I get asked to wear a reflective jacket on a film set. It’s so important for me to look down and to be cool with my gear regardless what I’m doing, even at school when I had to wear a uniform I would have my own way to rock it. I feel with the life choices I have made I should not have to get creative with a reflective jacket unless its Halloween. Whose work do you admire locally and why? 90% of the homeless, don’t ignore them. Honestly, feel that their ability to survive is admirable... Do you have any future projects in the pipeline that you would like to share with us? I’m pretty motivated to spend half of every year in Bali from April, at the moment that is my focus. I am super into the culture there so hopefully, something interesting will find me before then. Where can we see your work? Darren Jacoby allowed my website domain to be taken over by an Asian Porn Site which has been amazing for work... but you can find me here. @Vjayjay820820 @Jessjamesharris Vimeo: JESS JAMES HARRIS THE LAKE

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> WORDS - SUPPLIED

PHOTOGRAPHY - Al Luke

constructive Faatimah Mohamed Luke

Faatimah Mohamed-Luke is a visual artist and designer based in Cape Town. In 2003 she graduated from Cape Technikon with ND: Fashion and also did a year of design encompassing Graphic, Interior, Industrial, Textile and Jewellery design disciplines. She is also a founding partner of the SA designer brand adam&eve. She has honed her entrepreneurial and artistic skills, having participated in fashion weeks and exhibitions for over a decade. Three years ago, she resigned from the fashion industry to focus on art and interior design. Her aim is to reintroduce the art form of tessellation in a thouroughly modern way, utilising plastic building blocks to create large scale artworks. She enjoys challenging the views of materiality and what constitutes an artistic medium, while elevating the humble children’s toy into a nostalgic visual feast. Faatimah’s chosen medium allows for a playfulness and accessibility within the artwork and a democratisation within the art world. Faatimah’s need to foster accessibility has led to numerous public installations, one of which won a Loerie award. She hopes to constantly blur the line between art and design as she evolves and grows on her journey through various creative avenues.

“While on holiday in Morocco, 5 years ago, I fell in love with ornate, intricate abstract patterns. It was everywhere, every surface was painstakingly adorned to perfection. I loved how much pride the locals artists and artisans took in creating such beauty and how much its citizens and tourists appreciated it. It spoke to different parts of my heritage; African and Arab. It was the first time I had witnessed parts of my heritage living together so gracefully.”

cific tones just for me. My hope is to highlight and recreate the art form of tessellation in a modern way using plastic building blocks. In my work, I have championed the little building block, as my chosen art medium. I’ve created landscapes, portraits, and many abstracts, as one would with any other art medium. What I love most about it, is that it is a non traditional art medium and comes with no expectations but it has its own unique set of challenges. I believe that challenging an already established environment and challenging society is an essential part of an artists work and this medium helps me to do that by starting the conversation, ‘But is it art’. I also hope that my ability to exhibit and make a living from my art allows others the freedom and courage to experiment with new media. For this work, deCOLOURnise is a play on the idea of decolonizing black and white spaces. As with the intention of decolonizing, one needs to unlearn the many untruths that we are taught during our formal education. We need to replace it with the other education we are all taught. Our knowledge that

has been excluded, that comes from a different source. Knowledge taught through storytelling and narratives that have passed through lineages over centuries. Knowledge that takes the form of a visual language, present around us in everyday items and ceremonial traditions. Knowledge that is older and can still be proven as truth. The addition of this ancient knowledge comes in the form of pattern and symbolism. Within these pieces, the symbols have been deconstructed so that we may relearn and examine the meanings and messages behind each symbol and colour combination. Within the pattern I have added relief segments, to create an open-ness and open-mindedness between our cultures. My hope is that in sharing and learning our newfound collective knowledge, we will create a rich and more accurate global history. This understanding of the past and present should ultimately create an admiration and respect for our uniqueness. www.worldart.co.za @lucky_lady_luke

HIGH FIVES Lizzo

Leon Bridges

Nina Simone

Solange

Shekhinah

Coconut Oil

Good Thing

Feeling Good

A Seat at the Table

Rose Gold

2016 Atlantic

2018

1994

2016

2017

Columbia

Universal Records

Columbia

Sony Music

This is where I discovered the art of Tessellation i.e. a highly symmetric, edge-to-edge tiling using a simple porcelain shape. The porcelain tile used to create mosaics didn’t really resonate with me, so I looked to a more unusual basic shape. Playing with my little human, lead me to Lego and eventually to a locally manufactured block which could be made in speTHE LAKE

Faatimah Mohamed-Luke / deCOLOURnise White, 9476 ABS plastic building blocks adhered to Plexiglas : 1200 x 1200 x 50mm

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Faatimah Mohamed-Luke / deCOLOURnise Black, 2018 - 9514 ABS plastic building blocks adhered to Plexiglas : 1200 x 1200 x 50mm

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Top left: Faatimah Mohamed-Luke / The Rose Period I, 2018, 1785 ABS plastic building blocks adhered to Aluminiums : 640 x 525 x 20mm Top right: Faatimah Mohamed-Luke / Flora: The Rose Period II, 2018, 1926 ABS plastic building blocks adhered to Aluminium : 640 x 525 x 20mm Bottom left: Faatimah Mohamed-Luke / My Head, Your Hand â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Green, 2019, 1926 ABS plastic building blocks adhered to Aluminium : 640 x 525 x 20mm Bottom right: Faatimah Mohamed-Luke / My Head, Your Hand â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Blue, 2019, 1926 ABS plastic building blocks adhered to Aluminium : 640 x 525 x 20mm

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Image - Adriaan Louw

Left: Faatimah Mohamed-Luke / Tessellat: Rectangular, 2016, 14208 ABS plastic building blocks adhered to Plexiglas : 1420 x 1820 x 20mm Top right: Faatimah Mohamed-Luke / Reflections of a Queen II Wolof – Pink , 2018, 2094 ABS plastic building blocks adhered to Aluminium : 650 x 535 x 35mm Bottom left: Faatimah Mohamed-Luke / Reflections of a Queen II Ashanti – Blue , 2018, 2084 ABS plastic building blocks adhered to Aluminium : 650 x 535 x 35mm

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> WORDS - Dan Charles

PHOTOGRAPHY (Band) - Mark Reitz PHOTOGRAPHY (Live) - Sean Gibson

Dawn Chorus Dangerfields “Everything I went through humbled me, in a personal sense as well as in a musical sense. I was stripped of any pride that I might have had in terms of how people might have perceived me in the past. At Endless Daze that year, in 2017, I was very sick and everyone saw me there, and saw me walking around and playing onstage and knew that already. So I had to get used to the idea that that was how they saw me and that was who I was. I just had to make peace with it and for this album I embraced it and now I’ve moved past it. It was a new start in a way.” WH Auden said, “the so-called traumatic experience is not an accident, but the opportunity for which the child has been patiently waiting - had it not occurred, it would have found another - in order that its life became a serious matter.” It’s a sentiment that seeks to disarm the inevitability of the trauma that will be faced in one’s life by leveraging it into an act of significance rather than simply an act of sorrow. Because how unjust would it be if terrible things happened just for the sake of them happening and nothing more? That’s why we tend to seek meaning to justify life’s betrayals. And if there is little meaning to be found on our own, we turn to the ones who have been thrust into creating it for themselves - the ones who, in turn, offer us illumination through whatever darkness we may come to wander through, for they were brave enough to enter there first. Dangerfields are no strangers to this darkness. Since the start of their career in 2016, the band

(initially Lucas Swart - Guitars, Vocals; Calvin Siderfin - Bass, Vocals; Joshua Van Zyl - Guitars; Nicolaas Rossouw - Drums, and since 2018 joined by Paul de Villiers on keyboards and backing vocals) swiftly cemented themselves as a staple of the Cape Town alternative rock scene with their melancholic amalgamation of shoe-gaze, post-punk and dream-pop, and their cathartic and carefully considered approach to live performances. Having won over an ever-increasing fanbase - with two EPs released and multiple club and festival slots under their belts - the future of the band looked promising, until Lucas was diagnosed with chronic kidney failure in early 2017. It was this dire situation that led to the genesis of the band’s latest album, Echoes and Pulses. Not by choice but by necessity. Due to the limitations brought upon the band by Lucas’s critical condition, they had to put their plans on hold as he was subjected to regular hospital stays. But what

HIGH FIVES Spiritualized

Deerhunter

The CURE

BRMC

The Antlers

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

Halcyon Digest

Disintegration

Specter at the Feast

Familiars

1997

2010

1989

2012

2014

Dedicated

4AD

Fiction

Abstract Dragon

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“It was a good time to be writing, because it was one constructive thing that we could still do. There was a lot that I couldn’t do at that time. We had to cancel a few tours which was really annoying, and we wanted to record sooner but my lack of energy made it too tough. It gave us an opportunity to kind of maximize on the sound that we already had. We were never really a happy-sounding band - that’s just not our sound. It’s not that we’re bleak people. I kind of attribute our non-bleakness to the fact that we have this outlet. To us, it’s a therapeutic release that is necessary for keeping us happy the rest of the time.”

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they could do with the time that was devastatingly forced upon them, was write – a necessary action in the processing of the abrupt recognition of mortality. “It was a good time to be writing, because it was one constructive thing that we could still do. There was a lot that I couldn’t do at that time. We had to cancel a few tours which was really annoying, and we wanted to record sooner but my lack of energy made it too tough. It gave us an opportunity to kind of maximize on the sound that we already had. We were never really a happy-sounding band - that’s just not our sound. It’s not that we’re bleak people. I kind of attribute our non-bleakness to the fact that we have this outlet. To us, it’s a therapeutic release that is necessary for keeping us happy the rest of the time.”

Echoes and Pulses is an album rich in what Dangerfields does best: piercing guitar lines struck across tight grooves and dreamy soundscapes. But what this sound frames in this body of work is a far more direct and uninhibited record than what the band has previously put out, with Lucas’s usual reverence for romantic, gothic-tinged lyricism haunted by the very real presence of death. It is brave writing and very much akin to certain works of The Antlers, Sufjan Stevens and Mount Eerie, works that provided a semblance of guidance throughout the darkness that Lucas has faced. “I guess that I was inspired by the raw honesty of those records - Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie) made A Crow Looked At Me just after his wife died and it’s very directly the main theme of the album, and Sufjan Stevens did something similar with Carrie & Lowell after losing his mother, and Peter Silberman (The Antlers) created Hospice back in 2009, which is one of my favourite records ever. It basically tells the story of an emotionally abusive relationship through the allegory of a caregiver and a cancer patient - it’s fucking devastating. I saw my situation as an opportunity to create something that had potential to exist alongside those types of albums, the ones that really stick with people (if they can bear to actually listen to them from start through to finish). This is the sort of record that no band ever hopes to make. Death is not the sort of thing that anyone hopes to face, despite it’s inevitability. But THE LAKE

that’s why these sorts of records are important. In the darkest and most uncertain parts of our singular journeys, these records are our dearest companions - weary travelers who have been where we are before and can, with knowledge and gentleness, assure us that we aren’t alone. You may not necessarily be at the end of your journey but these records make that ending far less daunting in their familiarity. And they remind us to appreciate those who we share our journeys with. Records like Echoes and Pulses are significant. Luckily Lucas eventually received a kidney transplant and was returned to full health, but this record serves as a testament to everything he went through, and what the band went through, by proxy. “A situation like that makes you truly grateful, for the connect you have in music, for the connection you have through writing, through something like this, and the connection you have when feeling together,” says Josh van Zyl. “It also taught us that it’s okay to be scared, to be scared of life, to be scared of dying, to be scared of losing anyone.” www.dangerfieldsband.com www.dangerfields.bandcamp.com @dangerfieldsband

DISCOGRAPHY Dangerfields Echoes & Pulses 2019 Bandcamp

Dangerfields Embers EP 2016 Bandcamp

Dangerfields Ashes EP 2016 Bandcamp

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All wearing Lukhanyo Mdingi

All wearing Good Good Good

Photography & Creative Direction - Michael Oliver Love Styling - Peter Georgiades / Grooming - Sarah Whiteside Models - Collins Blaise Onyejekewe & Seid Mahamat with BOSS / Osei Clinton with Contact Aza Mhlana with My Friend Ned / Newton Igwele with The Circle THE LAKE

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> WORDS - Dan Charles

PHOTOGRAPHY - Hayden phipps

DNA YoungstaCPT

The school day has just ended and a flock of young kids have rushed through the doors of the Y?GEN Apparel Store at 99 Park Road, Wynberg, while their parents patiently wait for them in the car parked outside. They’re there to try on the new Y?GEN x Laurus Sport track suits hanging on the rack, maybe play a game of FIFA on the store’s Xbox console and hopefully get to spend some time with The Voice of The Cape, YoungstaCPT.

The Y?GEN Store is an accurate embodiment of where YoungstaCPT is at in his career right now having stared out selling his merch out of car boots outside of his shows, to renting out spaces for popup shops, to now running his own business with his brother and the Y?GEN team. It’s still a completely independent organization but it’s just a lot more legitimate now. And although the store has only been open for a few months, it has already established itself as a focal point within YoungstaCPT’s neighborhood - almost acting as more of a community centre than just a clothing store, which is precisely his modus operandi.

“We have to move on to the next phase and start acquiring these assets so that we can start cleaning up communities, looking after the youth and start making sure that they have something to look forward to and have something else to do with their time. Otherwise they just catch on kak, that’s the problem. So we offer them a different outlook and say, ‘maybe you can come work here instead or start a clothing label and bring it to the shop and sell it here or you can make your own album and put it next to mine.’”

coming struggle that is chronicled within each track. It’s an extensive 22-track analysis of Coloured Culture in South Africa and the core of the colonial and governmental indoctrination that has come to shape many of the issues facing it today - from the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck and the VOC slave trade to Wouter Basson’s architecture of the country’s current drug epidemic initiated by his secret chemical and biological warfare projects that perpetuated the mentality of slavery. Providing the source material for these tracks is the album’s narrator and YoungstaCPT’s grandfather, Shaakie Roberts. At the inception of this album, Shaakie had been strategically interviewed and recorded by his grandson over the course of 2015, so that his voice could be lent as a guide throughout the tracks. He appears on and off throughout the album, weighing in on a political debate or regaling with a quick anecdote from his past, giving the record a wider historic scope of the issues it touches on. “There were a lot of things that he said that I couldn’t have said better, so instead of hearing me say it,

people can listen to where I got my information from. Hopefully it gives kids the idea to go speak to their elders and hear their stories because there are millions of stories out there, it’s not only my grandfather. Everyone who grew up in that generation has a similar story, maybe worse, and they’re just not getting a chance to convey it, so I was fortunate to have this time to speak with my grandfather now. Their stories are going to die along with them and I don’t want us to lose that, especially since I grew up listening to my grandfather’s stories and I always found them so fascinating. Everything he spoke about sounded like a movie, so I made my own movie based on him.” YoungstaCPT understands the importance of having these stories heard. With over four hours of his interview with Shaakie sitting on a hard drive, even the 22 tracks on his album don’t really begin to cover what can still be learnt by the likes of his grandfather’s generation. But it’s a significant start in trying to uncover the often omitted parts of South Africa’s history, carried only by those who were there to bear witness to that history being made. That history can then be shared with the kids that frequent the Y?GEN

HIGH FIVES Method Man & Redman

2Pac Me Against the World

Blackout!

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib

The Notorious B.I.G

Bandana

Ready to Die

Nipsey Hussle Victory Lap

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1995

2019

1994

2018

Def Jam

Out Da Gutta

ESGN

Bad Boy

Atlantic

On the shelf above the clothing rack sits a few copies of YoungstaCPT’s magnum opus, 3T (Things Take Time) - an ambitious concept album that arguably serves as Kaapstad’s answer to Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city in both its reverence to the sounds of 90s West Coast gangster rap and the vast, cinematic detail of the protagonist’s stories of survival and overTHE LAKE

“There were a lot of things that he said that I couldn’t have said better, so instead of hearing me say it, people can listen to where I got my information from. Hopefully it gives kids the idea to go speak to their elders and hear their stories because there are millions of stories out there, it’s not only my grandfather. Everyone who grew up in that generation has a similar story, maybe worse, and they’re just not getting a chance to convey it, so I was fortunate to have this time to speak with my grandfather now.

discography

YoungstaCPT “3T” (Things Take Time)

To Be Continued

2019

2018

2017

How To Make It in South Africa

Kaapstad’s Revenge

Y?Fi

(YoungstaCPT X Loopsta)

(YoungstaCPT X J Beatz)

2017

The Cape Of Good Dope

Deurie Naai Alliance (DNA)

Fr3eze Time

(YoungstaCPT X GanjaBeatz)

YoungstaCPT X Arsenic

2016

2013

Yungloon Taliboom (YoungstaCPT X Maloon TheBoom)

(YoungstaCPT X Maloon TheBoom)

Red Bull Studio

2013

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YoungstaCPT understands the importance of having these stories heard. With over four hours of his interview with Shaakie sitting on a hard drive, even the 22 tracks on his album don’t really begin to cover what can still be learnt by the likes of his grandfather’s generation.

store and maybe then they can find their own ways to share that history further. The stories on 3T don’t shy away from Cape Town’s problems but they also embrace a profound hope for the city. As Shaakie says at the start of the album, the problems can be rectified. That rectification starts when a voice is given to the voiceless. It may take time but who better to start the process than The Voice of The Cape? “I have this opportunity now to share my take on this in my music, so this is just my contribution to the story - this is what I think of it, this is what I understand from it. And if there is a different understanding out there then go find that out and contribute that piece through whatever art you’re involved in. If you’re a writer, write about it and if you’re a filmmaker make movies about it. I’m a musician so I made an album about it. Each one has to play their part but this is just my take on it. I can produce a new album tomorrow but I don’t want people to think that this was an album that I made for one season and that’s all it was for. It’s called Things Take Time and it’s a part of history and my life. It’s my history and my grandfather’s history so I want you to let it marinate and come to understand it. The more things that happen in South Africa, the more you can go back and find that this album gets more relevant by the day.” www.youngstacpt.com www.ygencpt.com @youngstacpt 40

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Beach 2 Bush

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> WORDS - Everard Read

PHOTOGRAPHY - Standard Bank PHOTOGRAPHY ART - Michael Hall

VOICE BLESSING NGOBENI

Blessing Ngobeni was born in 1985 in a small rural town of Tzaneen in Limpopo. At the age of ten, he moved to Johannesburg where, after a tumultuous decade, he entered the contemporary art scene. Bringing with him a unique style and a critique of political regimes, Ngobeni made the corruption, incompetence and duplicity of current South African ruling elite the subjects of his art.

He tackled the disconcerting consequences of betraying democratic ideals, the failure to learn from historical tragedies and the expanding gap between the rich and poor. This critique is informed by Ngobeni’s own experience, the hardships and challenges he had to confront as a child and adolescent. In 2011, Ngobeni received the Reinhold Cassirer Award which afforded him a three-month residency at the Bag Factory in Fordsburg, Johannesburg. During his residency, he interacted with veteran artists David Koloane, Patrick Mautloa and Sam Nhlengethwa who further motivated his aspirations of pursuing art seriously. He also benefitted from visiting international artists; one outcome being the Emergency Exit exhibition, for which he collaborated with Nigerian artist Omega Udemba in 2012. The following year he was a recipient of the Impact Award from the Arts and Culture Trust and was listed as one of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans.

At this point, Ngobeni was on the rise, not only was his name circulating within the local art scene but he began entering the international arena through artist residencies. In 2015 he attended a two-month residency at the Headlands Centre for Art in San Francisco and in 2016 he was the only artist from Africa among several international artists selected for the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion Program. He also took up another residency in New York and shortly afterwards, and visited France to attend a graffiti workshop called Grafikama in 2016. Although Ngobeni has been exhibiting his artworks since 2007, his visibility in the contemporary art scene took effect in 2012 when he joined Gallery MoMo, which facilitated his participation in noteworthy local and international projects. Some of his exhibitions during THE LAKE

this time were In His State of Madness (2014) and As If You Care (2015). His subsequent move to the Everard Read Gallery at the end of 2015 accelerated Ngobeni’s art career. His notable exhibitions since 2015 have been The Song of the Chicotte (2016), Masked Reality (2017), Enemy of Foe (2018) and A Note From Error (2018) in Johannesburg, Cape Town and London. Ngobeni enjoys regular appearances at the FNB Joburg Art Fair and Investec Cape Town Art Fair. His artworks have been also featured at the EXPO Chicago (2017 and 2018) and PULSE Miami Beach (2018) in the United States. Ngobeni is currently advancing his artistic trajectory. In particular, he is expanding his range of creative mediums through producing free-standing and wall-based sculptures, video animations, sound installations and live performances. These recent developments in terms of medium bring into effect rich contents and dynamic expressions to Ngobeni’s art, as his latest exhibition A Note From Error demonstrates. They also give a curious twist to his hybrid language which points to various references: artists Dumile Feni, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Norman Catherine, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró; the artistic grammar of Surrealism, the rebellion of Dada and the symbolic force of Neo-Expressionism; economic use of visual elements of Minimalism. These qualities expand the depth of Ngobeni’s art, equally they articulate effectively its fusion of nightmarish, absurd, beautiful and captivating imageries. It is of importance to note that Ngobeni is an artist focusing on more than his own evolving career. His efforts in mentoring young artists have lead him to form two projects that support graduates who are transitioning from their fine art training at tertiary institutions to their careers as full-time artists. Blessing Ngobeni has been awarded Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Arts 2020. His his solo exhibition with Everard Read will be from the 4 - 25 March 2020, Cape Town. www.everard-read.co.za @ngobeniblessing 59

Bottom: Blessing Ngobani / Middle passage, 2019 - acrylic and collage on canvas - 159 x 171cm

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Top: Blessing Ngobani / Vehicle of failed state, 2019 - acrylic and collage on canvas - 157 x 285cm

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Left: Blessing Ngobani / After berlin meeting ii, 2019 - acrylic and collage on canvas - 159 x 110cm Right: Blessing Ngobani / After berlin meeting i, 2019 - acrylic and collage on canvas - 159 x 110cm

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Left: Blessing Ngobani / After berlin meeting ii, 2019 - acrylic and collage on canvas - 159 x 110cm Right: Blessing Ngobani / After berlin meeting iii, 2019 - acrylic and collage on canvas - 159 x 110cm

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> WORDS - Frantz Birkholtz

PHOTOGRAPHY - Frantz Birkholtz

alchemy Le Roux Hofmeyr

Le Roux Hofmeyr began in the world of interior architecture. Soon he moved on to furniture design, after which his appetite for metals grew. This lead Le Roux to join the team at Bronze Age Sculpture House, where today one of his duties is to experiment with chemicals on metals and explore the various creative outcomes.

We met with Le Roux at Bronze Age Sculpture House in Woodstock, Cape Town. A multi-functional foundry and studio well established within the design and art community. The studio had a peculiar energy to it. Imagine a museum on an acid trip mixed with a laboratory into it. Alluring and curious and it had my full attention. He floats comfortably through the studio whilst educating us about the space and how it operates. His passion for patina is dominant. Patina is a green or brown film that forms on the surface of metals like bronze, produced by long period oxidation. The seemingly magical process taking place through Le Rouxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work gives him the title of a modern-day alchemist. He gets to experiment through chemistry,

metals and industrial flamethrowers to design exquisite works of art. Le Roux seems to have a knack for creating art as he also finds himself in the alluringly psychedelic band, The Valley, based in Cape Town. I had the pleasure of sharing this insightful experience with the team from @casualsex_ . We spent the day documenting and learning more about him and his bewitching passions. This experience has been carefully compiled to a 13-minute visual glimpse into the world of Le Roux Hofmeyr. **CASUALSEX (an unorthodox creative collective producing minidocs on the alternative scene). @casualsex_ .

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> WORDS - RICK DE LA RAY

PHOTOGRAPHY - JACQUI VAN STADEN

Fatherless children TCIYF

“I don’t want to be in that category that says, ‘This is that magical class that’s going to bring about change.’ It may come from all kinds of different places. It may come from the universities, the black community, the reservations; it may come from all of them rather than some pre-ordained class. We have to figure out how to create a world where it’s possible for all different people to be who they are, to have a world where everyone fits.” Ashanti-Alston - (Wind(s) from Below: Radical Community Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible

As far as punk rock goes I have seen my fair share of local bands trying to sweat their opinions out on dirty little stages throughout this vast wasteland that we call South Africa over the last odd twenty years or so. Mostly they have been well off middle class white boys coming from suburban areas rebelling against their uptight religious parents for two years after high school until they eventually give in to the system and go and study some mediocre degree in advertising to afford that expensive car and cocaine they always wanted to impress the ladies within the first place... THE LAKE

In the case of TCIYF (The Cum In Your Face), we are dealing with a whole nother ball game here. Nothing is more punk when it comes straight from the source, a habitat and a very turbulent political situation and of course, the ever-present sidekick known as skateboarding. In this case, the source is Soweto. TCIYF first came on to my radar a few years ago through the SSS (Soweto Skate Society) and I have been following them ever since (Check out some early Youtube videos). I eventually got to see them play a secret gig at the Kill City Blues studios a few years back and had my hair blown back six ways. This 69

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is genuinely the most punk shit coming from our side since “Wild Youth” (Durban) and “National Wake” (JHB) in the early eighties and recently I had the privilege to join them in the Redbull studios as they fleshed out some recordings for their first EP simply titled ‘CumLife’. Amongst the chaos-filled with gin, Redbull and Chicken Licken these cats recorded some of the most Thrash Punk tracks I have heard in a long time. PUNK AS FUCK. The magic to this foursome is Musa the thrash specialist on lead guitar, Pule screaming his dry lungs to the core on the mic, Jazz on the drums (No band can go wrong with a Jazz drummer lets face it... and he really is a Jazz drummer) and finally Tox on the bass guitar making sure that the tempo is right there where we need it to be. Recently TCIYF did a short European tour with VANS through Berlin and France to very unsuspecting European crowds. Within the mix, there will always be a presence of Sachaba TheBakersman making sure that the spirit of the SSS stays alive within the movement. We need music for the movement and while it might not be the movement the rest of this country wants to hear I will sing it with them. To quote Gene Wilder in the first rendition of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, “’We are the music-makers and we are the dreamers of dreams’.

DISCOGRAPHY TCIYF CUMLIFE / EP 2019 Soundcloud

TCIYF Hells Gate / Single 2019 Soundcloud

TCIYF Ziyawa / Single 2019 Soundcloud

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> WORDS - Lizelle Ellmann van Rhyn

PHOTOGRAPHY - HAYDEN PHIPPS

WAX JUNKIE RekLiz I’ve learnt that vinyl does not travel well and so this is my third go at building a collection. This time, no matter what the shipping costs, the records are coming with me . I have to say that I’m not an audiophile, but rather a vinyl addict. It feels like I never have enough vinyl, but I have over 1200 records, and my turntable collection is 5-strong (you never know when you might need a spare). My collection is split in two: some at home and some at work, because it’s necessary and I play records on weekends at The Stoep & Swing (Glencairn). UNKLE Never, Never, Land Mo’Wax - 2003

Soul Of A Nation 2 Jazz Is The Teacher Funk Is The Preacher Soul Jazz Records - 2018

I was living in Edinburgh, Scotland at the time and in a music store when I first heard this. I didn’t even flinch, walking straight to the dude who worked there to ask what it was. I think the track playing was Reign, with vocals by Ian Brown which I immediately recognised. Had to have it. What an album.

This is one of the more recent albums in my collection that I came across at a very cool independent music store in Lisboa, Portugal. A brilliant introduction and induction into the world of African-American jazz, funk and soul during the era of 1969-75.

Dead Can Dance Toward the Within 4AD - 1994

Ben Harper Welcome to the Cruel World Virgin - 1994

I have an album collection ready for when-the-house-is-on-fire and this album is first in this pile that I’ll make a dash for. I remember hearing this for the first time at a friend’s house in Vredehoek and thinking, Omigod, what is this? It’s been a staple listen since then, on all possible formats.

This is his debut album that followed his Pleasure & Pain session with Tom Fruend. I love Ben Harper and this album more than any other album by him. I think it beautifully captures the pain of an African-American boy raised by a religious family living in modern (unequal) America. His interpretation of Maya Angelou’s I’ll Rise is breathtakingly real and gets me every single time.

Pearl Jam Ten Epic - 1991

Jimmy Dawkins Jimmy Dawkins Vogue - 1972

The Grunge bug bit me hard in the late 90s and this album above all others in this genre stands out for me. Listening to the melodic tones of Oceans, the anthemic Alive and the riffs of Even Flow, I challenge you to find a harder-hitting debut album from the first bar.

This was such a surprise find. Crate-digging in the dusty basement of a junk shop in Gansbaai I came across this rekkid. Of course it was the label I recognised and therefore no hesitation in taking it home. Turns out this was his only recording on Verve and a one-off live recording in Paris. If you love blues you’ll love this.

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Ai Weiwei Designing Women Designing Women (Film and Culture Series) Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of a newly industrialized world. From department store window dressings to the illustrations in the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogs to the glamorous pages of Vogue and Harper’s Bazar, Lucy Fischer documents the ubiquity of Art Deco in mainstream consumerism and its connection to the emergence of the “New Woman” in American society. Reflecting the growing prestige of the modern woman, Art Deco-inspired consumerism helped shape the image of femininity that would dominate the American imagination for decades to come. (R200.00)

Ai Weiwei. This Is the first comprehensive monograph on Ai Weiwei (b. 1957), a key figure in China’s burgeoning art scene. Ai often works with ancient materials - beams from destroyed temples, Han Dynasty urns - to create ingenious sculptures that break new artistic ground while commenting on the rapid transformation of contemporary China. Ai’s work is consistently innovative and unmistakably original, ranging from sculptures to photographs to his numerous architectural commissions, and it recalls the work of his artistic forebears: Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, and Andy Warhol. Ai is a towering figure whose influence can be seen in the multiplicity of his roles: not just an artist, designer, and architect, but also curator, publisher, blogger, and cultural compass for an entire generation of Beijing artists. (R875.00)

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(My private) Heroes

Punk Press: Rebel Rock in the Underground Press 1968-1980 Punk was born on the East Coast in the late 1960s, later crossing the Atlantic and exploding in London and Paris. This dynamic countermovement churned out heaps of professional magazines and photocopied, hand-stapled fanzines, all expressing ideas on music, art, and current events. By creating its own press, the punk movement secured its place in the history of 20th-century culture. Featuring collages, cutouts, and handcrafted typography, Punk Press compiles the stunning graphics created by these publications, spanning from the East Village to East London to the Left Bank. (R550.00)

(My private) Heroes. For the opening exhibition in Frank Gehry’s gleaming new MARTa Herford Museum in Germany, Artistic Director Jan Hoet, longtime director (from 1975 to 2001) of the Stedelijk Museum, rounded up images and objects representing heroes. Uniting them is a sweeping and important examination of the idea of heroism in visual culture from different eras by Hoet and other scholars such as Anne-Marie Bonnet, Bazon Bock and Boris Groys. This intensely personal and subjective selection, culled from his 30 years in curating, includes depictions of artists, singers, boxers and filmmakers, by 76 artists from Abramovic to Ziegler, with Kiefer, Koons, Polke, Picasso, and many more in between. (R187.00)

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Inside Little Britain. Written together with friend and journalist Boyd Hilton, this is a look at a year in the lives of Matt Lucas and David Walliams—the good, the bad, the mundane, and the monumental. The year covered includes a mammoth ninemonth Spinal Tap-esque tour where Little Britain goes in search of Great Britain. This milestone book offers an unrivaled close-up of a classic British comedy act, as it happens, at the height of its powers. But it is also a journey into their pasts, reflecting on how they achieved their success. Mixing memoir and travelogue to paint an engrossing portrait of fame and comic genius, Inside Little Britain is a candid look inside the celebrity bubble in all its glamour and awfulness. (R125.00)

Banana Yoshimoto’s novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine of Kitchen, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, she is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who was once his father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale that recalls early Marguerite Duras. Kitchen and its companion story, “Moonlight Shadow,” are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul. (R85.00)

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