This summer, South Africa’s most celebrated music superstars, Zolani Mahola, lead singer of Freshlyground, and Dom and Dave from Goldfish will be co-producing a track which will see the coming together of two epic sounds in one explosive mega-hit.
Zolani x Goldfish is a collaboration track that will come out of San Diego in the summer of 2018/2019.
In a unique and creative move, the Zolani x Goldfish team have launched a crowdfunding campaign via SA startup Thundafund to raise money in order for Zolani to explore a solo project in 2019.
“The funds we raise will take us to the US for the collaboration and then into Africa to meet and play with other music legends on the continent,” says Zolani.
“My team and i have created awesome incentives you can buy that will help fund the project. These are items you will never be able to get your hands on again, all unique to the project and once in a lifetime.”
Earlier this year, Zolani, Dom and Dave came together on the realisation of a long time desire to explore a collaboration. They met in Dom’s Southern Suburbs apartment in Cape Town, still exactly how he left it when he jetted for the States, littered with surf boardbags and ancient photographs of the duo.
The only working appliance? A coffee machine and a box full of Portuguese coffee capsules, these three Global music phenomenons got to work, catching up lost time, and discussing a new sound that they are all yet to uncover.
The collaboration tracks will be the result of a 5 day jam session in San Diego, a destination Dom and Dave now call home.
In order to travel to the US to record, Zolani and her project manager would need to raise R190 000 to be able to concentrate on the creative collaboration, and to roll out the full spectrum of incentives (almost R80 000 has been raised at the time of publication).
“The largest costs being flights, accommodation, VISAs and Studio/Tech, the budgeting and sourcing of which will be done through a project management company so that we stay on track and are accountable to the people who got us there” said Zolani’s Project Manager.
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“If we were to be so lucky as to overshoot the milestone amount,” continued Zolani’s Project Manager, “additional funds raised through this project will be invested to facilitate Zolani’s solo project further as she hopes to explore other collaborations with various artists abroad and on the African Continent.”
These are some of the incentives Zolani is offering exclusively to this project, and at “no-repeat” rates:
- Music Mentoring: Nominate yourself or someone you know to be mentored personally by Zolani on their music and songwriting. This will be done in 2 x 2 hour sessions
- Private Performance Zolani + backing acoustic Musician. Private Set 1,5 hour (Home or Corporate)
- Motivational Speaking (Business or School)
- LIVE Studio Listening Session LIVE listening sessions via Skype when working on track with Goldfish in San Diego+ digital download link a month before the official release + Signed Photo by Zolani
- Lecture/Workshop/Performance: As an entrepreneur in the music industry, one of the most challenging business environments in the world, Zolani is offering a tailored talk to an audience of knowledge-hungry startups and/or interested Investors. The talk will contextualise Zolani’s influences over the span of her career and detail the journey of this project. She will explain how and why they chose a crowdfunding platform, the wins, losses and learnings, and ultimately the successful outcome of this project that we are confident they will achieve. This will be followed by a 45-minute live performance by Zolani and, of course, a showcase of the Goldfish track that comes out of San Diego this summer.
GET INVOLVED: https://www.thundafund.com/project/zolanixgoldfish
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