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Warrick Sony (Swinney) is a South African composer, producer and sonic artist. He is the founder and sole member of the Kalahari Surfers recording projects, known for five albums of politically radical musical song/satire banned for possession in apartheid South Africa. Warrick has produced albums for Sony, BMG, Recommended, M.E.L.T. 2000, African Dope, Microdot, and Shifty Records . He engineered the Brian Eno workshops at the Baxter Theatre and has worked with luminaries such as William Kentridge and John Boorman. Now based in Cape Town at Milestone Studios, Warrick is currently in a creative partnership with Murray Anderson.
Warrick Swinney
Composer: Warrick Swinney
A deep-throated bellow
Pensive drone with light percussion and monks chanting
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African Dawn
Graceful strings with emotive African vocal and marimba
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Butterworth
Moody piece featuring traditional mouthbow and thumb piano
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Cape Flats
Cape Town style jazz featuring alto sax solo and electric guitar
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Chaos at the Copper mine
Angular rhythms with marimbas, electric piano, and quirky rhythms
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Dream Marimbas
Nature slowly blossoming into life
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Durban Ducktails
Comic muted trombone over a loping beat
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Gently Echoing Chambers
Tinkling bells, cyclical marimbas, and gentle female voice
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Giraffe Walk
Fast mbira pattern with loping African rhythms
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Growling guitars
Sheets of distorted guitar with shimmering high notes
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Hardstyle footwork
Aggressive hard-style beat with searing lead guitar and African mouth-bow
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In For The Kill
Fast authentic African tribal drums and marimbas
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Khartoum Network
North African arabic crime chase
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KwaZulu central
Traditional African guitar and mouth-bow duet
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Light and Shade
Heart-warming African vocals evoke the joy of nature
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Living in a Suitcase
Shimmering electric piano over mechanical rhythm bed
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Lucky Fish
Trip-hop beat, sub-bass and African chants
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Lusikisiki Wedding
Pacy atmospheric track with traditional African instruments
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Marimbau
Driving marimbas and African percussion off-set by ambient pads
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Maskanda 2010
Cheerful South African bass, guitar and organ
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Mpuza
Electro-kwaito-ragga beat with ethnic vocal
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