Hometown: Cape Town, South Africa. The lineup: John Withers (music), Emmanuel Nzaramba (vocals), with live assistance from Geoff Brink, Tom Parker, John Withers, Alex Montgomery and Raphael Segerman. The background: Take one multi-instrumentalist and a singer who used to work as a car guard and you probably wouldnt guess the results would sound much like the self-titled debut album by John Wizards. Then again, nothing much sounds like the self-titled debut album by John Wizards. It is a record that simultaneously nods to traditional African music and world music in general, while acknowledging developments in electronica in all its myriad forms from across the past few decades. There are snippets – term used deliberately, because often they will alight on a rhythmic or instrumental phrase before zipping off in another direction entirely – of 80s funk, dub reggae, slow-jam R&B, Shangaan electro, Tropicalia, Congolese rumba, Mali meditative mu...