Various Next Stop Soweto Township Sounds from the Golden Age of Mbaqanga Vinyl
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A brand new wide-ranging three-part series exploring underground South African music during the late '60s and '70s. Volume 1 explores the vibrant energy of the township jive sound, whilst volumes 2 and 3 cover rare SA soul, funk and hammond r&b and the country's rich jazz scene. The Next Stop... Soweto series is the result of several years of painstaking research and vinyl archaeology in South Africa by compilers Duncan Brooker and Francis Gooding. With 'Next Stop Soweto', Strut trace some of the amazing music that often only appeared on short run 45s at the time, including tracks by smaller and lesser known bands that plied their trade under apartheid during the years before the tumultuous Soweto uprising of 1976. featuring music recorded primarily for the local market, the album takes the listener far beyond the accepted township jive template into fusions with jazz, gospel, rumba, funk and traditional mining songs, all under-pinned by a gritty, uncompromising edge.It features The Big Four, Tempo All Stars, African Swingsters, Melotone Sisters, The Mgababa Queens etc.
New, sealed and in excellent condition.
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