One Country" Collaboration with Zimbabwe
January 25th-March15th, 2021
Is a project created by NZANGO ARTIST RESIDENCY directed by Matchume Zango to promote artist residences artistic on music and culture. In this edition the objective is to carry out and exchange between the musicality of Mozambique and Zimbabwe the traditional rhythms Chopi read more…
In The Key Of Marimba
November, 2017
The marimba, or xylophone, is widely used in the music of west, central and southern Africa. Marimbas trace their ancestry to traditional African instruments from Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia. In Mozambique, the tradition of playing timbila (part of the marimba family) evolved in the Zavala district of Inhambane read more…
Collaboration Mozambique & South Africa
Dezembro, 2018
One Country ( Xhosa Music) is a project that does research – with a focus on music and culture – regarding former and still existing connections between people living in Southern Africa: The Bantu people. In a first step, the project investigated the connection between Mozambique and South Africa. Later on, collaborations between read more…
Ponte Maputo Durban
Abril, 2019
Nzango Artist Residency and iSupport Creative Business present the Ponte-Maputo Durban project, a unique exchange opportunity involving two musicians and a photographer taking place throughout the month of June. The two musicians: multi-instrumentalist Matchume and pianist Sibusiso Mash Mashiloane will be read more…
Alpine Connection
Dezembro, 2019
Traditional timbila-pieces of the Chopi-tribe, as well as original songs of Matchume Zango build the musical basis of the Band Alpine Connection. Together with the Together with the three european musicians with Jazz- and Folkmusic background they are getting rearranged and brought into a new context. Because all the bandmembers read more…