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I’ve been working on an Afrikaans Pop album for a while now. The current working title is “Nuweling”. The project is still far from completion, with no less than 12 tracks in planning, but I can share previews of some of some tracks I’ve been working on. Listen below: Phlippie/Music · Nuweling Previews

My bandmates in Friends With Pools run a side-project called Hoarder. My involvement is minimal, but I contributed bass to the recording of their song Deadbeat. The group released their debut EP, 0, on major music streaming services in 2021. Listen to Deadbeat on Spotify below:

While seemingly everyone was baking bread or running garden marathons, I coped with the hard lockdown at the start of the pandemic by creating a two-track drone LP under the moniker Billy Deathray Cyrus. Listen:

The Friends With Pools sound had gotten louder and darker since our debut EP, and we’d gained an additional guitarist in Gerard Becker. We recorded a two-track EP, Don’t Count on Me, at Pony Jones Records over a weekend in February 2020. The record was released to major music streaming services in March. Listen on Spotify below:

The garage-punk band Friends With Pools was formed by myself, Diffie Bosman, and frontman Louis Knoetze in 2016 as a fun side-project to our other, more serious band commitments. We ended up enjoying it so much that it was for each of us the only band that we were still playing in by the end of the year. We wrote a lot of songs very quickly, an...

I am November recorded a 5-track EP called Drawn, opening with the previously-released Drawn and Call Off. It adds an up-to-date version of the song Thinking Too Loud, which was first heard in a stripped-down indie-folk context on Concrete Sky; here, it has been reworked into an upbeat pop song. Two new tracks, Up to Us featuring Janey Bay and ...

Watch the music video for the final song released by I am November as a band, Woods below. The video was created by Henk Labuschagne, who also sings on the song.

I’d been playing bass for Pretoria-based rocker Fritz Günter’s band, Fritz Gun, and contributed to the recording of his EP What You Are. The EP was released on major platforms in 2016. Listen below: