Review - Tony Cox
GSMC Online Music Club – Monday 1st February 2021
Tonight’s GSMC Online Music Club features guitarist Tony Cox who is a multiple award-winning singer/songwriter and acoustic guitarist, is one of the most highly acclaimed musicians in South Africa today with a loyal fanbase throughout the country, Tony has recently moved to the UK.
Starting with a beautiful instrumental piece called ‘Floating’ which was written in a Church and has a deeply spiritual feel to it. ‘Winter Song’ was dedicated to Tony’s friend musician and composer, Malawian, Wambali Mkandawire who sadly passed away the day before this performance and you could feel the emotion in this piece with it’s exquisite African rhythms.
‘Salty Towers’ was written at a time when Tony was living in Scotland and was followed by the first songs of the evening ‘Invisible’ and ‘House of Parliament Blues’ which is about the political situation in South Africa. The title track of his forthcoming new album ‘The World Went Quiet’ and is based on the current Covid 19 pandemic. The evening finished with a great version of ‘Baby Elephant Walk’ by Henri Mancini.
This was a fabulous set from a world class musician and composer who introduces it each piece with interesting stories and has a great sense of humour who is now starting the next chapter of his extraordinary career here in the UK and we should be delighted to have him here.
You can find out more about Tony Cox by visiting his website