Trains to Taung is the debut album by South African jazz pianist Paul Hanmer.

A native of Cape Town, Hanmer said thoughts of identity influenced the creation of the album.

He used marabi chords because "they are very simple, age-old blocks...a basic format for so much music that has come out of this country...in a way that, say, twelve-bar blues has become a format for so much music that comes out of America...the 12/8 groove—how slow it was—reminded me of a train.

I thought of a train going back in time, to that place that marks how ancient is the African human heritage: Taung...the place where the Khoisan made the ancient elements of music, and the place where marabi came about is probably one and the same...it's an imagined space and time.

"[1] He recorded the album with Louis Mhlanga and Jethro Shasha, both from Zimbabwe.