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The Thula Project / An Album of South African Lullabies is a groundbreaking 15-track musical album of South African lullabies, featuring Gloria Bosman, Yusuf Islam, Faith Kekana, Loyiso, Nana, Neo Muyanga, and Wendy Oldfield, The album includes a 36-page booklet of photographs, illustrations, lyrics and commentaries from the artists.
The Thula Project has been critically acclaimed for both its music and packaging. It was given as a gift to invited guests when Nelson Mandela was given the freedom of the city of Johannesburg.
Tracks from The Thula Project are featured in the Hollywood feature, Duma (Warner Brothers, 2005), and the television series, ER (Warner Brothers, 2006).
The album was nominated for a 2004 SAMA Award for Album Packaging, and was also a finalist for a 2004 Loerie Festival Award for Packaging. In recognition of the album’s design excellence, a listening node was created for The Thula Project at the 2004 Design Indaba Expo.
“…a rich evocation of childhood experiences seen through adult eyes.” – Mail and Guardian
“Lullabies have never been so cool.” – Elle SA “…groundbreaking collaborative album…” – Design Indaba Magazine
“…awesome multicultural album of South African lullabies.” – Visi
Funding for this project was provided by the South African-Norwegian Education and Music Programme (MMiNO), and the National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC).
The Thula Project is independently distributed by Worldgoround Records. For trade enquiries, phone (011) 646-1546 or email worldgoround@barrybester.com
ABOVE & BELOW Photographs of performing
artists, reproduced in the album's 36-page booklet.
Photos Johannes Dreyer
ABOVE Thula Project Listening Node, Design Indaba
Expo, Cape Town BELOW Duma film poster
