I just wrote a review about this album for another site so I’m all out of creative energy for a second long post. But hey, I think many of you will really dig the sound of today’s track regardless.

There’s a lot to love about World Music Network‘s Introducing series. Daby Balde’s release was really nice, as was Etran Finatawa’s. They’re also the same people who are behind the great Rough Guide series, Nuru Kane’s latest and a whole lot more. I should get around to grabbing their Introducing Vakoka release some day…

Incidentally I was blasting Shiyani Ngcobo’s album, Introducing, this past weekend while driving from Nice to Cannes for a night’s work at the film festival. Something about Ngcobo’s face-paced, almost frenetic, finger picking went well with the rolling hills of the Côte d’Azur on a Sunday evening. I guess there isn’t much that doesn’t go well with Mediterranean sunsets and women in ball gowns.

You can grab this album on Calabash – highly recommended.

Shiyani Ngcobo – Izangoma