- Audio CD (Mar 8 2011)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Strut Records
- ASIN: B0037YKYC0
- In-Print Editions: LP Record
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#58,362 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #71 in Music > R&B > Compilations > Soul
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Volume 2 in Strut's new wide-ranging three-part series exploring underground South African music during the late '60s and '70s. This time focusing on township R&B, Soul, Funk & Psyche 1969-76! With international forms of music discouraged by the South African authorities during the 1960s, township jive or Mbaqanga arose as innovative artists combined close harmony singing and traditional African styles with a bouncy township beat. Imported US music became strictly the domain of house parties, private record collections and underground shebeens. Volume 2 of Next Stop... Soweto also touches on mbaqanga and jazz artists who dabbled with soul and funk fusions during the early "70s - the MGABABA QUEENS and MAHOTELLA QUEENS, and revered South African jazz combo THE HESHOO BESHOO GROUP. Also featured is a rare psychedelic track from one of the only recordings made of playwright GIBSON KENTE?s acclaimed theatre pieces, "Too Late". 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. The CD package features an extensive booklet featuring detailed notes by DAVID COPLAN, author of "In Township Tonight?, alongside many previously unseen archive photos.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
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Township SA gettin' funky, too., May 14 2010
By Scott McWade "dubs" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: V2 Next Stop Soweto Soultown (Audio CD)
Groovy compilation with above par musicianship and sound quality. A good broad sampling of the differnt variety from within 1969-76 South African township R&B. And a little hip to be square, for sure. But funky overall, just somehow different from every other take on this type of groovy tunage. From intense presures came these mighty diamonds, let 'em shine !
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Charming and hypnotic psych-soul from Africa, Dec 28 2011
By G. Rao "grao!!!" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: V2 Next Stop Soweto Soultown (Audio CD)
My two favorite tracks are "Bazali Bam", and "Skophom". Not much information is available online about the artists who recorded them, apparently. They both seem to feature some shrieky hammond organ grooves and piercing electric guitar work.Skophom is an instrumental, and is somewhat reminiscent of Jimmy Smith, particularly when the organ player and guitar player meet in a climactic trill during the second chorus. It fits in pretty well with the other 60's and 70's era African rock music items I've heard, although it's more on the uplifting, energetic side.
Bazali Bam is more repetitive and hypnotic, but still makes use of the same basic sonic textures. It has vocals which work up into wailing double tracked choruses. The splintering guitar figures seem to anticipate the English post-punk music of Echo & the Bunnymen, or the Teardrop Explodes, and it wouldn't surprise me if those artists took some inspiration from this type of music during their early 80's heydays.
At the very least, I expect Julian Cope to publish an Afro-rock Sampler whenever he finds the time to do so. There doesn't seem to be any mention of this idea on his headheritage.co.uk website, however.
Next Stop Soweto, Vol 2 is a very listenable album from start to finish, and I'd recommend it for Afro-rock completists, or anyone with a mild curiosity about the different directions that rock and roll music can take when far removed geographically, if not spiritually, from it's homeland.
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