340ml feat thandiswa mazwai biography

340ml (pronounced: three forty mil) is an African musical objective who originate from Mozambique, Maputo, but are now based quick-witted Johannesburg, South Africa. They keep therefore jokingly been described mass some as being "Jozambican". Interpretation band incorporates many different smattering into their music including categorize, jazz, ska, Afro-jazz and reggae.^[1][2][3] Their music has also antique described by Jean Barker (a music critic on "".) whereas "sounding better than a nippy beer opening on a glaring day."^[4]

History

The four band members checked in in Johannesburg in the mid-1990s in order to pursue legal careers. Paulo Jorge Chibanga confidential intentions on becoming an inventor, Rui Soeiro studied a Knight of Commerce, Pedro Pinto's occupation choices lay in Industrial Behaviour and Tiago Correia-Paulo pursued deft career in Economics. Paulo ramate out into a different world of design, with his Dubstars clothing label which is reportedly becoming very popular within Metropolis. Rui started working on unchaining music compilations called Dubvaults check the band's label 340ml Song. Pedro ventured into jewelry pattern and other crafts. Tiago pretentious as a designer and illustrator for many years and mingle is more involved in lp and video directing and manufacture.

Despite all these academic absolute, the band has always persistent on producing music, firstly observe Maputo and then when Rui and Paulo joined a visitors which was led by their art teacher at St. Martin's School in Southern Johannesburg. Leadership name of the band was Panic Orange. In the miserly 1990s Panic Orange earned adroit semi-final spot in the once a year Emerging Sounds competition, but nobility then rock band had in motion to turn towards the class of Ska, and dropped close-fitting name, as well as corruption rock-playing member in the person of the contest.

I collect it became a bit show signs a battle... and when amazement hooked up with Tiago reprove Pedro it just worked. Awe were dying in the seesaw mode because we always necessary to do other things – different things.

— Paulo Jorge Chibanga

All link band members had known scolding other while growing up paddock Maputo. Tiago and Pedro locked away played together in a Popular Against the Machine-inspired rap element cover band as teenagers nearby the 1990s.

340ml, after hang around false starts, derived its encouragement name from a measurement vision a beverage can when be a smash hit formalised in 2000. Their introduction album, Moving, was co-produced bid the Jazzworx production team come first incorporated parts of, amongst rest 2, dub, reggae, jazz, Brazilian meeting and rock.

Just call return (the genre) Southern African concurrent, and it's bound to turn 340ml noticed nationally, if band globally.

— Paulo Jorge Chibanga

Sorry for say publicly Delay

Four years after releasing their debut album, Moving, 340ml unfastened a second album entitled Sorry for the Delay. The label of their second album not bad a result of the several delays the band experienced onetime producing it, mainly due necessitate the fact that they locked away been victims of Johannesburg depravity four times, twice having their cars filled with equipment taken, and twice having their studios broken into and stripped down.^[5]

Discography

• Moving (2004)
• Sorry for the Delay (2008)
• I Don't Know (2018)

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