Spaza' is a word for an informal neighbourhood store, commonplace in South Africa. Recording imprint Mushroom Hour Half Hour have announced the latest record to come out of their experimental sound lab, situated in South Africa's Johannesburg. SPAZA is “a band with no permanent personnel, with each line-up assembled for the express purpose of recording improvised or workshopped material.” The tracks making up this eponymous LP are free jams by musicians with individual and collective links to Johannesburg’s jazz, Afro funk and experimental electro scenes.

Debut album written at the birth of his first child. Charismatic guitar savant Xaba reframes maskandi and the avant garde into his own humanist manifesto. With a vocal style that is part dreamscaping and part ancestral invocation, Xaba divines as opposed to plainly singing.