GOEMATRONICA
is an offshoot of Goemarati, and part of the Cape Town Partnership's Creative Cape Town initiative.
Click here for video from the Carnival trip, lead by Melvyn Matthews Goemarati Tour 3. Click to view a video from the Goematronica Carnival Tour,
hosted by Melvyn Matthews
Goematronica Tour 4. Click to view a video from the Goematronica Reggae Tour.




Images from Goematronica Tour 3 - Carnival. Pictured are, from L to R, Warwick Sony, Fletcher Beadon, Peter Abrahams and Lu Chase.
Tour1. February 2008. City Tour, hosted by Andrew Boraine, CEO of the Cape Town Partnership. A look at the past, the present and the future developments of Cap Town city.

Tour2. March 2008. Goema & Jazz. Hosted by Mac McKenzie, Hilton Schilder and Iain Harris. An exploration into Cape Town's goema music and its cousin, Jazz.

Tour3. April 2008. Carnival. Hosted by Melvyn Matthews. A journey through carnival tradition in Cape Town and the making of carnival instruments.

Tour4. May 2008. Reggae. Hosted by Teba Shumba, Wakhile Xhalisa and Iain Harris. A dip into the reggae scene with a visit to the home of top reggae artist Teba Shumba, the studio of Wakhile Xhalisa, and the Marcus Garvey Dancehall in Phillipi.


Goematronica is  the electronic offshoot of Goemarati, an attempt to link the electronic producers of the city to the history and legacy of the city.

The project has begun with a series of tours through the city's heritage landscape, and its future. The Cape Town Partnership hosts 12 electronic music producers on monthly tours taking in, for example, carnival and goema history and characters in the city.

A total of eight tours are taking place between February and September 2008.

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The Ghetto Sound Studio, Nyanga Ghetto Sound Studio, Nyanga
These pictures are from Goematronica Tour 4 - Reggae, and were taken through the window of the recording desk booth at Wakhile Xhalisa's Ghetto Sound Studio in Nyanga. Pictured  are Wakhile, Warwick Sony, Fletcher Beadon and Zozo Mohoto.
The Cape Town Partnership Creative Cape Town Goemarati     Goematronica is an initiative of the Cape Town Partnership's Creative Cape Town Programme. It is an offshoot of Creative Cape Town's pilot project, Goemarati.