Splash Jaammm!
Tomorrow I will go to Amsterdam to hang with Jonas and Mathias alias Sjocosjon & Leip Duke. I met them during my stay in Soweto last November to make my story ‘Deep Soweto’. Jonas and Mathias are two filmmakers who stayed in Soweto several weeks to make a documentary about the HipHop scene and to teach promising local youth about the process of the documentary for Music Mayday. You can read about there journey on their Xplore log. Our Sowetan Mama’s hooked us up (the owners of our B&B’s). I joined them to go to Jabulani Flats were we met with the Deep Soweto crew, a big gang involved in the hiphop scene. Unfortunately they were at the end of their stay…But before they left they also brought me in contact with Federal of Asylum Tribe. Just in time for me to get invited to Splash Jam, an open air jam session at a carwash in Orlando West township. A few hundred people showed up and this event really rocked! The public went really crazy and you could see the performers were well respected. When a big thunderstorm dropped tons of rain on the event, I found myself standing in over a foot of water. I could take the name ‘Splash Jam’ quit literally. But everybody kept on jamming! As the only ‘Lumu’ (white man) I looked up at the sky and thought; ‘this is amazing’. So a big thanks to Sjocosjon and Leip Duke, some more pictures for you of Splash Jam:
