Second SAMA in the bag

Guy Buttery, Ballito’s own ‘August Rush’ and master of the fret board, has grasped his second South African Music Award (SAMA).

His recent live recorded album ‘Live in KwaZulu’ won ‘Best classical/instrumental Album’.

His third album, ‘Foxhill Lane’, won him is first SAMA in 2010 in the ‘Best instrumental’ category.

Buttery was named the youngest nominee in the history of The South African Music Awards (SAMA’s) in 2002 being only 18 years old. Since then Buttery has received seven nomination. The SAMA’s took place at the end of April at Sun City and he dedicated his award to the city of Durban “for its constant inspiration” .

His winning album ‘Live in KwaZulu’ was recorded live in front of an audience at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal over two days.

“In a live environment there’s no way to get it ‘just right’. This isn’t the studio. There aren’t any retakes. It’s live. It’s real,” said Buttery.

This album features the best of his numerous compositions from a career spanning 14 years.

Muse Magazine said this of the new album: “If the Inuit have a dozen lexemes describing the various phenomena of snow, Buttery has a dozen ways of unveiling what to other musicians would be the same note. A release as rich as ‘Live in KwaZulu’ cannot really be said to have highlights – the light abounds, as it were – but most guitarists will stutter for a week after experiencing his astounding ‘Half a Decade’, which is so talently textured as to hint at a new vocabulary of guitar playing. His fret board seems to undergo actual transmogrification, in one delicious sequence morphing into a grove of subtle, oriental cymbals. A sensory feast.”