Introducing our BOTW: John Wizards
Sometimes a record comes along that completely blows your socks off. It can be for any number of reasons: it could be that it’s a stylistic curveball that catches you completely off-guard, it could...
View ArticleBOTW Video: John Wizards –‘Lusaka by Night’ (Live)
There’s an interesting contrast at the centre of John Wizards‘ self-titled debut album, available now on Planet Mu. For what’s an immensely human record, rich in vibrant emotion and warm, welcoming...
View ArticleBOTW Interview: John Wizards
25-year-old John Withers is the man behind one of the most vital, original and stirring records we’ve heard all year. With his band, John Wizards, the Cape Town native has produced a body of work on...
View ArticleBOTW Review: John Wizards – John Wizards
John Wizards is a pretty good name for a person, but it’s an even better one for a band. Though it’s made up of South African producer/songwriter John Withers, Rwandan vocalist Emmanuel Nzaramba and a...
View ArticleBOTW Playlist: John Wizards
If you’ve spent as much time dancing deliriously to John Wizards‘ self-titled debut album this week as we have – and if you haven’t then why not? – you’ll likely have envisioned that the man behind the...
View ArticleNOFAYs 2013: Michael Lewin – Editor
Welcome to The NOFAYs 2013: The Notion Office’s Favourite (note: not ‘Best’) Albums of the Year, our take on the now-ubiquitous end-of-year list. We don’t normally partake in the monotonous routine of...
View ArticleThe Field Report #7: So many additions, so little budget…
Festival season, like an impending wave of low pressure threatening to burst our river banks, is upon us. And to get our taste buds tingling, organisers have been chomping at the bit to let you know of...
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