The second single from Thakzin’s forthcoming album COMMON GROUND transforms a nickname shared between longtime associates into an invite to maneuver, dance and lose your self within the second.
South African producer Thakzin reunites with longtime buddy and collaborator Tete on ‘Maputla’, out Friday thirtieth October by way of Sondela. The monitor marks the second single from his forthcoming album COMMON GROUND, arriving Friday thirteenth November.
On the centre of the monitor is a phrase that carries a historical past of its personal. “Maputla” is the identify Thakzin and Tete use for each other; half nickname, half shared persona and a bit of language that has developed naturally by years of friendship. Between them, it has turn into a name to come back by, get into the groove and dance: “You’re my Maputla.”
What started as one thing private between the pair finally turned the spirit of the document. There may be an ease to ‘Maputla’ that displays the familiarity behind it, capturing the sensation of going out, transferring and shedding your self in a second with somebody who already understands your vitality. Nothing must be over-explained as a result of the connection is already there.
That relationship carries instantly into the music, with Thakzin & Tete speaking by rhythm, intuition and motion. Relatively than constructing the monitor round a wider idea, ‘Maputla’ attracts its character from the chemistry between two associates and the shorthand that develops when folks have recognized one another lengthy sufficient to grasp each other virtually intuitively.
The one presents a extra intimate perspective on the concepts operating by COMMON GROUND. Whereas earlier single ‘Maphorisa’ introduced an intensive solid of artists collectively for the biggest collective recording of Thakzin’s profession, ‘Maputla’ narrows the main focus to the connection between two folks. In doing so, it explores one other form of widespread floor; the names, jokes, gestures and rituals which will imply little to the skin world, however between associates can maintain a complete historical past.
‘Maputla’ is friendship changed into sound; and an invite to come back by and dance.
Thakzin and Tete’s ‘Maputla’ is obtainable from Friday thirtieth October by way of Sondela, forward of COMMON GROUND on thirteenth November 2026.
