LONDON-based singer and actor Nakhane is returning home to perform for their fans.
Nakhane (33) is excited to return and finally perform their new album, Bastard Jargon, released earlier in March.
Nakhane Live will be at the Lyric Theatre, Gold Reef City in Joburg on 24 November.
The Inxeba actor said they can't wait to perform the album live for their South African fans.
"Since I dropped Bastard Jargon in March, I’ve been dying to perform some of its songs for my audience at home. So, much of the sound of the album was informed by music I grew up listening to in South Africa.
“Of course, I'll be playing the old favourites as well. The show is sweaty, electronic and percussive, mostly uptempo, but with a midsection that slows everything down and is not afraid of silence,” they said.
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Nakhane said Bastard Jargon, which is a rhythmic dance album, is about their sex life, and it has a different sound than the previous albums.
“Bastard Jargon is the light at the end of the tunnel in many ways. It’s about sex, morality, politics and identity, but it’s also a project of joy, embarking on a new sonic and stylistic journey. The process of creating the album was different too. Instead of writing chords, I'd play drums first. It was this sense of a new beginning.
“Almost every song on it has some kind of wink towards sex. It’s not necessarily a seductive, come to me, bedroom eyes kind of sex - it’s much more inquisitive, psychological sex,” they said.
Nakhane revealed they stopped writing sad songs after their 2018 album, You Will Not Die.
“That album was based on so much trauma. I just couldn’t make that kind of music anymore. I was exhausted from singing sad songs.
"The only way I was going to be creative again was if I swung to the other side,” they said.
