10 Hours, 8 Tracks, 1 Lifetime: Apiwe Bubu’s 20-year journey to his debut album – The Mail & Guardian

10 Hours, 8 Tracks, 1 Lifetime: Apiwe Bubu’s 20-year journey to his debut album – The Mail & Guardian

On Thursday, 31 July, Apiwe Bubu dropped his debut solo album Reflections of a Sound Mind — an eight-track collection of piano compositions that has been two decades in the making.  It was a long road that saw Bubu travelling to Boston, Valencia and Los Angeles before coming home to record and release his first album at the age of 41. Born in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, Apiwe is the second of five children. His early years were spent in his bir…