Posts Tagged ‘South Africa’
BLACK COFFEE Bright Lights, Big Sound Chptr. 1
November 5, 2019
Ameer Brooks & Themba
22:00-23:30
Twenty dollars to park? Suck it up. The lot is spacious. Monitored. And clean. As the outdoor temperature plunges, security pats down the body, checking for the prohibited. Flash your ID, and a scintillating smile. Enter the long corridor, the black-velvet rope queue, is empty of souls waiting to pay the door fee. Two blondes, mid-conversation, scanning your electronic ticket, point you upstairs where a man, dressed in all black, stands.… Continue
BLACK COFFEE 16.04.10
April 17, 2010SUPERMAN
Inside the club, a storefront pizzeria with a dance floor and DJ booth in the basement, located along the city’s Old Fourth Ward district, the music stopped. No one moved. No one breathed. No one dared make a sound.
“BOOM,” thundered an explosive sound of deep bass followed by a few electronic “clicks.” Then a second, “BOOM” followed by a third, “BOOM” blasted from the speaker in repeated cessions until a clear audible rhythm was realized.… Continue