BENGUELA Brydon Bolton (electric/double bass), Alex Bozas (guitar), Ross Campbell (drums) On the South African music scene now for 24 years, the improvising Benguela has slowly, organically, grown a devoted following from their home base of Cape Town. Fans of the band attend gigs knowing that every show will be completely different to the last one they attended. Each Benguela show is an impromptu art exhibition, created and curated in front of your eyes. The band’s name – taken from the cold ocean current running up the West Coast of Southern Africa – is a clue as to the kind of music they make. The music flows directly into you – it quiets your thoughts, it calms you down. One has the sense that the music has always been playing, churning life from deeper places – and that you’ve just now tuned in, balanced onto a rare frequency, trembling like a stick insect in the wind.