| Product Summary | | Label: Shanachie | | UPC: 00016351433329 | | Release Date: 9/22/1988 | | Buy.com Sku: 60046982 | | Item#: MNHV96 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Awungilobolele - Udokotela Shange Namajaha ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Holotelani - Nelcy Sedibe ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Qhude Manikiniki - Umahlathini Nabo ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Indoda Yejazi Elimnyama - Amaswazi Emvelo ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Emthonjeni Womculo - Mahlathini Nezintombi Zomgqashiyo ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Sobabamba - Udokotela Shange Namajaha ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Qhwahilahe - Moses Mchunu ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Thul'ulalele - Amaswazi Emvelo ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Sini Lindile-Nganeziyamfisa No Khambalomvaleliso ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Ngicabange Ngaqeda - Mahlathini Nezintombi Zomgqashiyo ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Joyce No. 2 - Johnson Mkhalali ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Nansi Imali - Ladysmith Black Mambazo ~ Various Artists | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Liner Note Authors: D.A. "Jumbo" Vanrenen; Trevor Herman. | | Editor: D.A. "Jumbo" Vanrenen. | | Photographer: Orde Eliason. | | This anthology of South African artists surprised everyone by becoming a best-seller. It introduced worldbeatniks to Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Mahlathini, and Moses Mchunu and paved the way for Paul Simon's Graceland. Winner of The Village Voice's Jazz and Pop Poll for Best Record of 1987, it's an essential sampler of modern African styling, a revelation and a joy. ~ J. Poet & Hank Davi | | '60s Africa found the Zulu and Sotho beginning to incorporate the influences of African American R&B, jazz, and blues into their traditional, indigenous music. New styles such as township jazz, pennywhistle street music, Kwela, and marabi were formed. Eventually, these myriad styles coalesced to create a new hybrid pop music that came to be known as mbaqanga. Though mbaqanga employs the traditional instrumentation of Western pop (guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and vocals), the approach to song structure and rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic phrasing is uniquely African. | | Recorded between 1981 and 1984, THE INDESTRUCTIBLE BEAT OF SOWETO is the first (and arguably the best) of a slew of South African pop recordings that soon followed. Characterized by insistent, rhythmically complex beats, elastic, burbling basslines, tight, ska-sounding guitar accompaniment, and thick, multi-part vocals, this music is as intriguing as it is appealing. Groups with such names as Udokotela Shange Namajaha and Amaswazi Emvelo serve up bright, infectious melodies and percussively insistent tracks that are clearly intended for dancing. Though this "pop" may at first seem strange to Western ears, repeated listens reveal its true nature: rich, individual, joyous, and simply wonderful music. |
Producer: D.A. "Jumbo" Vanrenen; Lucky; Lucky Monama; Marks Mankwane; Richard Siluma; Trevor Herman; West Nkosi; Trevor Herman (Compilation) |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 07/07/1987 | | Original Release Date : 1986 | | Catalog ID : 43033 | | Label : Shanachie Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 45m : 53s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : AAD | | UPC : 00016351433329 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | | Rolling Stone - Ranked #58 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Albums of 80s" survey. Village Voice - "...an awesome cultural achievement..." Mojo (Publisher)
(12/02, p.126)
- "...The accordions and the harmonies still sound as fresh as they did when dividing John Peel listeners..." |
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