Rare 71 HAWK AFRICAN DAY Freedoms Children PSYCH PROG

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Original ~ 1971 South African Psych MONSTER

...South Africa - silver & black Parlophone - 12080 

Now, over thirty seven years later, African Day stands as a testament to the collective magic of five musicians who drew inspiration from the red dust of Africa and created a musical epic that surely must rank with some of the greatest rock debut albums of all time.

The "concept album", with its long, interwoven tracks, telling a musical story, was the avant-garde rock opera of the 1970s.

In Johannesburg, South Africa, with musicians aeons ahead of their time, Hawk guitarist & vocalist Dave Ornellas added the sunburnt, brown prairies of Africa to the genre of the concept album – the heady, steady beat of drums, and enough cross-rhythms to make you dizzy.

Add the mesmerising voices – and the telling story.

Tuck in the ranging whilrling flute. The deep bass buzz. And the mesmerising, talking drums.

"African Day" takes up the entire side one of the album of the same name, something never quite before seen, or heard, in a country alive with indigenous sounds no-one had worried to emulate, because the "culture" was foreign. In other words, not "white." And everyone knew, in a society insanely paranoid with Apartheid-speak, that only "white people" could, well, make music.

The others could develop separately.

Hawk changed – and challenged – that immediately.

In the off stage darkness a voice intoned:

"It's dark and still in the chief's village protected by the mountains of the great southern regions of Africa . . .

Drums echo through the village as the first fingers of light paint the sky with the fresh colours of morning, and so the days begins . . ."

And so, too, the lights came up. It was the prelude to a unique, colourful, performance, and once caught live, and the story dramatically revealed, was never forgotten.

It was music theatre on a grand, unique, stage.

"One day in the Kraal of Taka,
All the peoples' hearts were filled with fear,
Three men had died and the village waited
For the maddened beast to re-appear."

An African story, this. Of a killer, rogue elephant, a rampaging, out of control beast. A story culled from the heat and dust of Africa, a fast-disappearing natural world around us. An avant garde tone poem.

Apart from African Day, as the side one concept, Hawk began writing more tracks – bassist Richard Johnson with Happy Man, Dave Ornellas with Look Up Brother, flautist Keith with Love Song, Ornellas and 2nd guitarist Spook Khan with Kissed by the Sun – and an evocative cover version of George Harrison's Here Comes the Sun that may even be better, somehow, than the Beatles original.

Look Up Brother, with its evocative solo guitar lines, supplemented suddenly by a second guitar, and building up to a vocal climax, is one of the most beautiful songs penned.

Kissed by the Sun – "I wrote it in the swimming pool" says Ornellas, is a terrific gem, with Spook providing the melody.

All told it's a fabulous rarity highly worth investigation...

1. African Day (Hawk) [17.20]
2. Happy Man (R Johnson) [2.50]
3. Look Up Brother (D Ornellas) [3.03] 
4. Love Song (K Hutchinson) [3.23]
5. Kissed By The Sun (D Ornellas/S Kahn) [3.28] 
6. Here Comes The Sun (George Harrison) [4.27]

• Dave Ornellas: Vocals, guitar, percussion
• Mark "Spook" Kahn: Guitar
• Braam Malherbe: Drums
• Richard Johnson: Bass
• Keith Hutchinson: Sax, flute, piano
• Dave (session musician): Percussion

CONDITION: The cover is grainy textured gatefold VG++ with just very light wear, been well cared for the past 37 years and looks fine. No seam splits, ne bends, no writing anywhere 

The vinyl has only light scuffs, nothing deep. VG++ plays outstanding, enjoyable 

keeper!

     A  GREAT ADDITION  TO ANYONES COLLECTIBLES!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record

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