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  • Apple Music’s New Artist Spotlight Is Afro Roots Group, Urban Village

    Apple Music’s New Artist Spotlight for February is Urban Village, a Soweto-based band who blend folk, Zulu rock, Xhosa funk, mbaqanga, maskandi and layer it with funky acoustic melodies to create a sound that is wholly African. “We are Urban Village and we are really excited by this opportunity to be selected for the Apple Music…

  • Urban Village Celebrate Black Women With The Release Of Album Udondolo

    Today Urban Village release a new single and video, ‘Dindi’, the final track to emerge from the Soweto-based 4 piece’s debut album ‘Udondolo’, out now via Parisian label Nø Førmat! A call-and-answer urging for black pride, the fizzy, irrepressible ‘Dindi’ arrives alongside a quietly powerful video shot by rising South African talent Justice Mukheli. Speaking…

  • Urban Village & Msaki Call On The World To Unite With New Single Umhlaba Wonke

    Off the back of their recent EP release, UBABA (their debut for Parisian label Nø Førmat! – home to Oumou Sangaré, Blick Bassy & Mélissa Laveaux), Soweto based 4-piece band, Urban Village, pave the way to their highly anticipated debut album release in January 2020 with new single, Umhlaba Wonke (The World), featuring South African musical gem and radio…

  • Urban Village Release New EP “UBABA” With Visuals

    Soweto based 4-piece band, Urban Village, have released a new EP, UBABA, their debut for Parisian label Nø Førmat! (home to Oumou Sangaré, Blick Bassy & Mélissa Laveaux). Marrying the day-to-day experiences of black South Africans with ebullient elements from traditional Zulu music, Urban Village is the alias of four experimental musicians all born and raised…