![]() ![]() Warrick Sony worked as a freelance sound engineer in the South African film industry, and used this to acquire many of the sound samples he later used in his music. German group Can were involved with this label. The second release was a double single package, "Burning Tractors Keep Us Warm", released by Pure Freude Records. ![]() found sounds", and chose it as one of their three "Terrific Tapes of 1983". Sony distributed it himself the South African Sunday Times described it as a "daring home-mixed collection of subliminal jive rhythms, sad-sweet jazz sounds, tabla burps, church bells, bird shrieks, political speeches and. The Surfers' music was the first radical white anti-apartheid pop in South Africa, and began with a 1982 home-recorded cassette titled "Gross National Products". He adopted the name partly to protect himself from the authorities. He is the only permanent member of the band, and brings in other musicians as and when needed. The Kalahari Surfers are a "fictional group" which have served as a long-standing stage name for Warrick Sony's music. Sony performing with the Kalahari Surfers in Amsterdam, 1986. This was his first exposure to the Sex Pistols and the Clash. While Sony was in the army in 1977, his father brought him punk rock albums from an overseas trip. He changed his surname from Swinney to Sony to make it harder for the army to get in touch with him for camps he chose Sony because he liked their products. During his military service, Sony played B♭ horn, euphonium and drums. In 1976 he was conscripted into the South African Defence Force, where he declared himself a Hindu pacifist, and was assigned to medical duties and then to band work. He learned to play tabla at the Hindu Surat school in Durban. He was influenced by Indian music and cuisine and by the work of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart. He grew up in the Cowies Hill area of Durban, attending Westville High School where he played in school-based groups doing covers of songs by Jimi Hendrix and The Who. Sony was born in Port Elizabeth on 12 September 1958. He graduated with a Master of Fine Art degree in 2019 from Michaelis School of Art University of Cape Town. He currently works on film scores, music for theatre and sonic art exhibitions. Now based in Cape Town, Sony has released more Kalahari Surfers albums, and been involved in art, music and DJ events in the city. He has also worked as a film sound recordist, sound designer and sound artist. Sony has produced albums, and ran the Shifty Music label at BMG (Africa) for two years in the mid-1990s. During this time the Surfers toured Europe with English session musicians. They made politically radical satirical music in 1980s South Africa, and released it through the London-based Recommended Records. He is the founder and sole permanent member of the Kalahari Surfers. Warrick Swinney (born in 1958), more commonly known as Warrick Sony, is a South African composer, producer, musician and sound designer. ![]()
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