Tony Cox – Enormous Flowers is the latest release from guitar maestro Tony Cox.
For the past four decades, the Zimbabwean-born virtuoso has poignantly expressed his emotions using nimble fingers and his family of guitars. By pushing his guitar playing to its limits, he has told beautiful, textured stories, thrilling audiences with his flawless, innovative technique and skill.
Twenty album releases later, a clutch of awards and a life time of performing, the fingerpicking guitarist has decided to put meaningful lyrics and voice to his compositions on his latest release – Enormous Flowers. Contributors include bassist Victor Masondo, drummer Barry Van Zyl and keyboardist Roland Skippers.
Tony Cox – Enormous Flowers and the songs
“The songs are dark, funny, whimsical and a few are political in nature, all are deeply connected to me as this person who lives here in South Africa, expressing what I think, feel, see and hear. I fervently hope my fellow South African peeps hear it and feel it too…that would be the cherry… Although I’m now a lot older but not yet fucked, I still have a lot to do musically and so this is me now, songs, with lyrics,” he says.
The first single House of Parliament Blues (aka Voetsek Shutup) has received super traction. Already hitting over 43 000 views on Facebook and 5450 views on Youtube, the song, and black comedy lyric video have struck a socio-political chord with many South African listeners and viewers evoking much feedback and commentary.
Watch the lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/user/tonycoxmusic
The second single is the foot tapping feel-good track Enormous Flowers, dosed with strutting bass lines and sassy, honeyed backing vocals. Listen: https://soundcloud.com/tony-cox-20/enormous-flowers
The album has been described by FMR as “a beanstalk that reaches into heavenly dimension and their ain’t nobody who’s gonna chop it down, a timeless gift, don’t wait too long to enjoy a masterpiece of South African music at its very best”.
What: Tony Cox – Enormous Flowers
Genre: African soul / blues / folk / jazz
Download:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/za/album/enormous-flowers/id1204852068
Apple Music: https://itun.es/za/Kvj0hb
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/15334761
Simfy Africa: https://www.simfy.co.za/artists/380537-Tony-Cox/albums/5479460-Enormous-Flowers
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Tony_Cox_Enormous_Flowers?id=Bakh6v6p2oqug25fpykoaah6kuu&hl=en
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