Who better for episode 3 than that beautiful man, Cam? Cameron Lofstrand is primarily known as the screaming demon and guitar abusing front man of Black Math, but can be found littered across stages and recordings all over the country, playing in bands such as Return to Worm Mountain, Taekwondo Sleepover, The Sisters, Hadeda, Feast of Famine, and most recently, Slump (along with heaps of other bands - forgive me, I am too lazy to name them all). 

In this conversation we discuss his musical beginnings, starting when he saw a cartoon band on TV as a child (very appropriate, given Cam's career in illustration and design - check out his Instagram page to see some of his incredible work), to "borrowing" sound equipment from a local church during the formation of Black Math, and eventually flourishing as a multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer in the contemporary "alternative" music scenes of Durban, and South Africa more broadly. 

We speak about our shared love for King Crimson, making music in disparate genres, experimenting with sound and recording, and open tunings. Cam delves into the secrets of his songwriting craft as a means to purge and cleanse himself of uncomfortable emotions like anger, sadness, rage and frustration, and the joys of writing both collaboratively and alone. Basically, there are some remarkable insights about Cam's process and approach to creating music in this discussion.

I'm also very pleased to say that I managed to unlock Cam's inner guitar nerd sensibilities, as our discussion veers into his love of effects and favourite pedal configurations (if anyone from Electro-Harmonix reads this, please can y'all start making the Ring Thing again), as well as starry eyed fawning over the magnificence of Fender amps (specifically Hot Rods, which Cam explicitly states are the greatest amps ever). We also attempt (and fail dismally) to talk about guitar tonewoods.

But anyway... Here's a conversation with a dear friend and one of the greatest musicians South Africa has ever produced.