Joshua Madalitso Chiundiza is an artist and musician from Harare, Zimbabwe. His work explores his Chewa, Shona and Nguni heritage, expressed through Music/Sound Recordings & Performance, Experimental Film, Text and Performance Art Installation. In recent years, his work has featured internationally at festivals and museums including the ZKM Center for Art & Media (Germany), Videonale 18 (Germany), National Arts Festival (South Africa), Festival Afropixel (Senegal) and the Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival (South Africa).
In this guest mix, Joshua prepared The Zimbabwe Music Express: a brief insight into the rhythms and grooves that have shaped Zimbabwean contemporary music from the 80's to the early 2000's. This unique selection celebrates the fusion of synth, disco, electro, jazz styles, with the unique Zimbabwean sounds of township, sungura, jit, mbira and chimurenga music.