John Wizards

Skittering across the African musical landscape, from highlife to mbaqanga, township funk, R&B, Shangaan electro and beyond, South African journeymen John Wizards channel their influences into eclectic bursts of euphoria. They’ll have you grinning from ear to ear and flailing about in mere seconds.

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After previously playing with various bands, John Wizards’ mastermind John Withers’ new project got its start when he met Rwandan singer Emmanuel Nzaramba by chance in the streets of Cape Town and the two bonded over music. Aside from being a musical omnivore with an appetite for everything from African highlife and mbaqanga to disco, Withers is also a whiz at writing jingles for commercials, and these loves for pan-global genres as well as compact and cheerful melodies are reflected on the band’s eclectic and kaleidoscopic new self-titled debut.

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