BushFire: House On Fire Announce This Year’s CollaboNation Artists
After a month-long CollaboNation call out process that saw 366 applications received from across Southern Africa, the two CollaboNation 2023 match-ups have been selected. House On Fire is excited to announce that this year’s CollaboNation artists will be Thobile Makhoyane (Eswatini) X The Hood Brodz (Mozambique), and Mokoomba (Zimbabwe) X Morena Leraba (Lesotho). Thobile Makhoyane fuses her haunting vocals and traditional musical instruments - like the M akhoyane and S itololo - with western musical instruments to create a style of her own that will perfectly complement The Hood Brodz, a DJ and producer duo hailing from Bairro Trevo, a neighborhood in Maputo, Mozambique and whose passions lie with Afro Deep House and Afro-Tech. Makoomba are a multi-ethnic band from Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, whose sound blends genres as diverse as Sungura, Reggae, Dancehall, Urban and Afro Jazz with traditional rhythms and contemporary Zimrock, while Morena Leraba melds