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Speaker 1: Hege, I recognize that voice. It's ja ja ja something

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Speaker 1: Jay something.

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 1: I had to, I had to, I had to, lovely, lovely, lovely.

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Speaker 1: That song is so we know it.

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Speaker 3: I actually have a tear in my eyes. So overwhelming

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Speaker 3: and we've heard it for so long, but yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Nicely done, nicely Jay Something Jesse click and Psaki is

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Speaker 1: psucky hillo, how are you doing? Nice to meet you

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Speaker 1: in the flesh. Nice Okay. So we're talking about the

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Speaker 1: Scatterling's Music Festival and I'm going to start Jesse. Jesse click.

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Speaker 1: You need no introduction, he man, no introduction, Jesse, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to start with you. I mean the Scatterling's Music Festival.

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Speaker 1: This is a beautiful music festival that's coming up. I

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Speaker 1: know that you and I'm Psaki. Both of you have

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Speaker 1: been working really hard. You've came up with the Scattling's concept. Jesse.

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Speaker 1: I want to start with you. Take us through the

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Speaker 1: Scatterling's Music Festival. What's it all about?

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 2: So good to be Yeah yeah. Me and im Psaki

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Speaker 2: have been working on a concept and an album where

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Speaker 2: some of our favorite artists in South Africa get to

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Speaker 2: reimagine a song of their choice of my father's and

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Speaker 2: there's going to be an album that comes out later

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Speaker 2: this year of beautiful songs of my dads that have

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Speaker 2: been reimagined by today's generational artists, today's contemporary artists, and

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Speaker 2: this project is going to be celebrating the release of

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Speaker 2: the album with this huge event on the first of

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Speaker 2: August at Huddle Park at the Scatterling's fest And the

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Speaker 2: concept is that, you know, my father was such a

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Speaker 2: generational artist in his moment, in his time, he was

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Speaker 2: he was the original Scatterling, and the Scattling's Festival is

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Speaker 2: to celebrate today's Scatterlings, today's musicians, today's incredible expression that

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Speaker 2: is happening all around the country. We have such amazing

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Speaker 2: new young talent that is coming out, and so the

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Speaker 2: festival is really about this generation of music and and

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Speaker 2: what my dad left and also what is being expressed today.

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Speaker 2: And it's just the most incredible lineup. It's artists that

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Speaker 2: I think I'msuki and I both have loved for a

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Speaker 2: long time. And to have them all on one stage

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Speaker 2: to celebrate history but also to celebrate this moment today

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Speaker 2: is such a profound joy and today is the announcement.

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Speaker 2: We're announcing this festival. It's the Scattlings Festival. Tickets go

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Speaker 2: live today first of August at Huddle Parkure.

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Speaker 1: You're sure that's quite something? It really is, all right, Masaki,

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Speaker 1: let me bring you into the conversation here Scatterlings, bright

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Speaker 1: new talents. Who's in the lineup? Who can we expect?

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Speaker 1: You've been so instrumental in organizing all of us.

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Speaker 2: It's the Avengers of music.

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Speaker 1: I know, it is like the Avengers, really is.

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Speaker 4: I just firstly wanted to honor this idea that you know,

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Speaker 4: we're all the Scattlings of Africa and this place where

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Speaker 4: you know, a song can give us belonging or it

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Speaker 4: can it can pull us apart. And I think a

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Speaker 4: lot of Johnny's music was instrumental in making us that

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Speaker 4: were more like than anything. And so even though the

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Speaker 4: artists are different, you know, having this undercurrent where they

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Speaker 4: all get to express this their favorite Johnny song, but

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Speaker 4: they get to share the you know, the best of

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Speaker 4: their songs and what they've meant to this generation and

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Speaker 4: what they mean to their different audiences. Is it's fun

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Speaker 4: to think about the Avengers of music from different genres

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Speaker 4: and I think, you know, from artists like Smernoff, who's

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Speaker 4: Now somebody who's been you know, instrumental in forming our

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Speaker 4: He's given us words to things that we were figuring

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Speaker 4: out emotionally all the time. To people like Sanel musician

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Speaker 4: who's a three step pioneer, to Tresor who used to

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Speaker 4: perform cool, crazy, beautiful world even before he met Jesse's

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Speaker 4: that used to be a staple in his own setberg,

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Speaker 4: of them have got a story on how they connect

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Speaker 4: with Johnny's music, but all of them have a place

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Speaker 4: in South Africa's heart. So it's many artists like that

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Speaker 4: Semi Java Java, There's many. Yeah, there's it's just and

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Speaker 4: I think that that that that that's probably going to grow.

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Speaker 4: We'll find that more people will say, actually I really

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Speaker 4: the Skettlings of Africa.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: A beautiful festival coming up now, Jame something a beautiful

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Speaker 1: album as well. Just tell us more about the music

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Speaker 1: in there. Obviously we've been speaking about some of the artists,

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Speaker 1: but I mean that seem Bornanga, that's a beautiful, beautiful song.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about the album.

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Speaker 3: The album in itself, I think Jesse and im Psychi

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Speaker 3: I just have the privilege of being able to be

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Speaker 3: for me. It's just it's such an honor to be

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Speaker 3: able to try and reinterpret an incredible piece of music that,

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Speaker 3: you know, when I first got when I first got

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Speaker 3: can I add to this piece of music because it's

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Speaker 3: so perfect in itself. But I think it was about

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Speaker 3: honoring somebody who played an instrumental role not only in

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Speaker 3: my life, but I think in a lot of people's lives,

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Speaker 3: with how it came out. And you know, as we're

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Speaker 3: doing this interview now, I'm just remembering moments that I

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Speaker 3: had to get together with Jesse's dad and just imagining

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Speaker 3: how he would feel seeing us doing something like this.

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Speaker 3: Not only the album, but I think the music Festival

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Speaker 3: an incredible, high energy, beautiful moment in time, and I

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Speaker 1: It's going to be massive. Jesse huddle Park first of August,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is electrifying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be incredible. I think firstly, just

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Speaker 2: to say Jay has done such an amazing job of

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Speaker 2: the seyboardanga. I think so many artists were terrified to

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Speaker 2: even touch that song because an iconic song, and Jay

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Speaker 2: was just like, I know, exactly what song I want

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Speaker 2: to do, and it was so beautiful to hear what

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Speaker 2: he did with it. And you know, I think that

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Speaker 2: as much as the album is about celebrating the past

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Speaker 2: and the legacy that all of us as musicians get

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Speaker 2: to grow from and learn from, the festival is about

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Speaker 2: looking forward and looking at today's artists and and who

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Speaker 2: are the who are the scatterlings of today? And so

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Speaker 2: it's really a combination of like a celebration of all

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Speaker 2: these artists and artists that have created their own cultural

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Speaker 2: capital in today's South Africa, and also and a celebration

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Speaker 2: moment for us as South Africans.

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Speaker 1: And I'm really proud.

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Speaker 2: That I get to carry my dad's message forward and

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Speaker 2: his ethos forward. And I think that he would be

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Speaker 2: looking down and smiling.

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Speaker 1: I think so too. Your dad was a pioneer. This

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Speaker 1: is the legacy, this is the festival, This is the

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Speaker 1: talent Jesse and Saki jay something. Congratulations to all three

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Speaker 1: of you. We will see you proudly. Was seven or

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Speaker 1: two on the first of August. We look forward to

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