Rashid Vally, the visionary behind South Africa’s iconic jazz label As-Shams, forged a legacy of revolutionary jazz that defied apartheid, and continues to inspire new generations of musicians, activists, and music lovers.
https://africasacountry.com/2024/12/the-sun-shows-the-way
apartheid
Coal Train – Hugh Masekela (live)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/coal-train-hugh-masekela-live/
“Coal Train (Stimela)” recorded at the “Freedom Beat” festival in June 1986.
The song, composed by Hugh Masekela in the 70s, speaks about local history and the migrant labour system around mines and reminds everyone that South Africa’s wealth and infrastructure was built on the back of labour from all over Africa. […]
Edited 174d ago
Muzi – Stimela SeGolide
https://amf.didiermary.fr/muzi-stimela-segolide/
Muziwakhe McVictor Mazibuko, known professionally as Muzi, is a South African DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer. His EP “Stimela SeGolide” (2019) tells the story of displacement, cheap labor and love under apartheid.
“Mom used to tell me stories about how her parents had to take trains to JHB to go to em mines. How […]
Edited 4h ago
All Africa – Max Roach
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rss-club/all-africa-max-roach-freedom-now-suite/
The last two tracks of Max Roach’s "Freedom Now Suite" have a different flavour.
“All Africa” is a percussion/voice song in which African and/or Afro-Cuban rhythms (played by Babatunde Olatunji on congas, and, for the second part of the track, by Raymond Mantillo and Tomas du Vall) respond to Abbey Lincoln’s singing. […]
Edited 58d ago
Sathima Bea Benjamin – Winnie Mandela Beloved Heroine
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sathima-bea-benjamin-winnie-mandela-beloved-heroine/
About Beloved Heroine in an interview with Carol Ann Muller in Musical Echoes:
“I wanted to write this song for Winnie [Mandela], because I absolutely identified with her,” says Benjamin. “I could feel her pain,” Benjamin writes of her subject’s “soft, gentle eyes reflecting those unshed tears”.
Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela
26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018
Edited 135d ago
New Tutenkhamen – Forever together
https://amf.didiermary.fr/new-tutenkhamen-forever-together/
New Tutenkhamen, a 1970’s band from Harare, Zimbabwe, played an eclectic brand of Zimbabwean township music combining traditional rhythms and western influences.The album “I wish you were mine” was originally published in 1979, during the liberation war.
The band’s most famous release, “Itai Cent Cent” was a sad lament of the poverty afflicting black people [...]
Edited 13d ago
Black Disco – Night Express
https://amf.didiermary.fr/black-disco-night-express/
2 album with Pops Mohamed (Organ – Electric Piano), Basil Coetzee (Flute, Tenor Sax), and Sipho Gumede (Bass), in two different styles with Black Disco and Movement in the City.
As the 1970s were drawing to a close, the epic Black Disco studio project with its signature pairing of drum machine and organ had run […]
Edited 12d ago