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
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 107d 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
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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 62d 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 […]
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Jazz/The African Sound
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jazz-african-sound-chris-mcgregor/
“Jazz/The African Sound” by Chris McGregor & The Castle Lager Big Band, one of the most important African records of all time, a lost global Jazz classic, and a true holy grail for collectors of Jazz and WorldJazz.
Post also includes Archie Shepp live in Stuttgart, with Brotherhood of Breath.
#60smusic #Apartheid #BrassBand #Jazz #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica #Blaugust
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@a : @wwilliam can't read this toot (unless you boost it) because the mastodon.social Zionists blocked my account. Note: this toot is a response to https://mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum/115148509411976736.
The facts 🧵1/2:
1️⃣ HOLOCAUST
🔸 Zionists are technically 100% correct that the Holocaust is all about "Never again" - because according to Zionists, ONLY JEWS were martyred during the Holocaust.
🔸 For example, from the IHRA website (https://holocaustremembrance.com/what-we-do/focus-areas/remembrance): "Remembrance of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma" (more info in https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/115146049680896167).
🔸 And you won't find non-Jewish victims of WWII in the online database (https://collections.yadvashem.org/en) of Yad Vashem "The World Holocaust Remembrance Center". From the first Q in their FAQ (https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/faqs.html):
❝
What was the Holocaust?
The Holocaust was the murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators.
❞
2️⃣ AUSCHWITZ COUNCIL & DANI DAYAN
The Auschwitz Council has been hijacked by ultra-Zionists:
🔸 Earlier on by Avner Shalev, former high-ranked IDF combatant and progessional Palestinian murderer, later Yad Vashem chairman, next Auschwitz Council deputy chairmain. He wrote https://www.yadvashem.org/about/former-chairmen/avner-shalev/if-everything-is-genocide.html. My answer to mr. Shalev: "If everything is AntiSemitism, NOTHING is AntiSemitism".
Note: I don't know why mr. Shalev is not mentioned in https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschwitz-council/members-of-the-international-auschwitz-council-4th-term-of-offi/. Mr.Shalev *is* mentioned in https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschwitz-council/iac-members/ and even described in full in https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschwitz-council/iac-members/avner-shalev/ - which erroneously states:
"AVNER SHALEV - DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
Avner Shalev has been Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate since 1993. Upon becoming Chairman, Shalev initiated a multi-year development plan aimed at equipping Yad Vashem with the necessary tools to address the challenges of Holocaust remembrance in the 21st century."
🔸 Dani Dayan replaced mr. Shalev as Auschwitz Council deputy chairman (https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschwitz-council/members-of-the-international-auschwitz-council-4th-term-of-offi/). Mr. Dayan is still Yad Vashem chairman and also IHRA chairman. Mr. Dayan himself is an illegal Westbank settler and former chairman of the YESHA council. Brazil rejected Dani Dayan's envoyship (proposed by Netanyahu, see e.g. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/israel-withdraws-dayan-appointment-to-brazil-names-him-instead-as-consul-general-to-ny-449400) because mr. Dayan was YESHA Council chairman and a lifetime professional Palestinian hater. Instead mr. Dayan became a consul to New York.
3️⃣ YESHA COUNCIL & DANI DAYAN
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesha_Council:
🔸 "The Yesha Council (Hebrew: מועצת יש"ע, Mo'etzet Yesha) is an umbrella organization of municipal councils of Jewish settlements in the West Bank (and formerly in the Gaza Strip). The Hebrew acronym Yesha is created from Yehuda Shomron, Aza (Judea, Samaria, Gaza)".
One of their colonial objectives in https://myesha.org.il/?CategoryID=419:
🔸 "To safeguard Israel's strategic expanses–between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea" (how is that not "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA").
4️⃣ IHRA (Israeli's Hasbara Reversing AntiSemitism)
The purpose of the IHRA is to REVERSE the meaning of ANTISEMITISM.
🔸 That's rather "complicated" - because AntiSemitism, i.e. pure prejudiced hatred of the Jewish race, which led to the Holocaust (their definition) - CAUSED a genocide during WWII.
🔸 Now the IHRA wants the world to accept that AntiSemitism INCLUDES criticising the Israeli's for COMMITTING GENOCIDE. As if ANTISEMITISM, a special form of RACISM, has anything to do with what people SAY or DO.
🚨 This IMPLIES HOLOCAUST DENIAL 🚨.
🔸 In a disgusting attempt to make that credible, ultra-Zionists ABUSE Holocaust- and other victims of WWII for HASBARA, ISRAELI PROPAGANDA.
🔸 The social media spams they distribute are a disgusting COVERUP of their real intention: to warn people that it are ALWAYS JEWS WHO SUFFER MOST.
🔸 The idea is that, to prevent ANOTHER Holocaust (Jews only), Jews have unlimited rights "to defend themselves" (preemptive strikes are fine). No laws, no rules, no compassion, no humanism.
🔸 EITHER you stand with Israel OR YOU ARE AN ANTISEMITE. Even if you're a Jew yourself (my grandfather was a Jew. He survived WWII but his relatives were murdered by Nazis).
🔸 From the lies section of https://holocaustremembrance.com/press-room:
About the IHRA in brief
Vision statement
A world that remembers the Holocaust.
A WORLD WITHOUT GENOCIDE.
🔸 How severely the word AntiSemitism "should" be abused (according to Ursula von der Leyen and Dani Dayan) can be read in the "EU handbook for the practical use of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism" (https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/eu-handbook-ihra-working-definition-antisemitism - in particular German Zionists ♥️LOVE♥️ it).
5️⃣ HASBARA SPAM & BEAUTY CONTEST
🔸 I don't know who composes Auschwitz social media spams. Likely there are two groups of people preparing them:
a) Possibly Polish volunteers who prepare spams describing both Jews and others who can be found in https://victims.auschwitz.org/victims. For most of them NO cute, adorable, photograph is available; typically these spams include boring triple pane prisoner mugshots. Most of the times these spams are hardly boosted.
b) Ultra-Zionists, possibly Israeli, prepare spam with adorable "look how cute" photographs mostly of Jews. Most of these photographs are never found in https://victims.auschwitz.org/victims and regularly not in https://collections.yadvashem.org/en. Apparently these spammers scan the internet looking for such images, stealing them if redistribution is prohibited.
🔸 Mugshot toots, and toots without photographs, are the (near) perfect cover up for their sneaky objective. Usually they get a limited number of boosts.
🔸 Adorable victims (1. Anne Frank, 2. young girls, 3. then young mothers + babies, 4. then young boys, etc.) are subjected to YET ANOTHER, DISGUSTING, SELECTION PROCESS (they went through a selection process "who has to wear a ✡️ or some other symbol" and another selection after ariving in Auschwitz), and now: WHO GETS MOST BOOSTS - MAKING THE SPAM TRENDING.
🔸 Most Auschwitz spams are sickeningly boosted by the same bots and (possibly) people, amplifying the likeliness of hasbara spams to become trending. Of course there are also naive idiots who boost such toots - usually ONCE they became trending.
THIS IS NOT SINCERE REMEMBRANCE
- NOT REALLY BEING INTERESTED IN
WWII VICTIMS IS ❌DISGUSTING❌
Go visit a Holocaust museum (better: a WWII museum) instead.
#DaniDayanToICC #AntiZionismIsNotAntiSemitism #NotAllJewsAreZIONISTS #Zionists #NeverAgainJewsOnly #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight #DaniDayanIsWrong #AvnerShalevIsWrong #AuschwitzZionists #AuschwitzHijacked #YadVashemJewsOnly #Hasbara #BoostCattle #KlikVee #BeautyContest #SelectionProcess #HumanSelection #BoostBabyBoost #HolocaustVictimABUSE #ShoahVictimABUSE #ConcentrationCampGaza #WestbankConcentrationCamps #GazaIsAConcentrationCamp #IHRA #IHRAsucks #InternationalHasbaraRepeatingAlliance #IHRAisInternationalHasbaraRepeatingAlliance #AntiSemitism #DefinitionOfAntisemitism #IsraelisAterroristState #Genocide #Gaza #WestBank #Lebanon #Syria #Yemen #Iran #Apartheid #Terrorists #ExplodingPagers #Starvation #BombingChildren #ShootingChildren #StarvingChildren #NotSinceOct7_2023 #Since1948 #Nakba1948 #NoOtherLand #WESTERNCOUNTRIESaxisOfEvil
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Brenda Fassie – Black President
https://amf.didiermary.fr/brenda-fassie-black-president/
Black President is a song by South African singer Brenda Fassie, the 6th track on her 6th eponym studio album in 1990. It was written by Sello “Chicco” Twala, Brenda Fassie, produced by Twala and released on February 8, 1990. The song was written about Nelson Mandela, who was arrested by the South African apartheid […]
Thelonious Monk met Dollar Brand
https://amf.didiermary.fr/thelonious-monk-met-dollar-brand/
When Thelonious Monk first met Dollar Brand… By 1964, Dollar Brand (later Abdullah Ibrahim) had already made 3 LP’s as a bandleader. He was living in Switzerland and had just gotten a boost from Duke Ellington.
[Thelonious Monk and his wife, Nellie] were at Kongresshaus in Zurich where Monk gave another successful concert. After […]
#60smusic #AbdullahIbrahim #Apartheid #Jazz #SouthAfrica #TheloniousMonk
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Miriam Makeba – Brand New Day
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-brand-new-day/
The song “Brand New Day” is part of the “Keep me in Mind” album, recorded in 1970. At that time, Miriam Makeba was in Guinea-Conakry, after an invite from President Ahmed Sékou Touré, following major changes in both her own personal life and politically within the USA.
Producer Lewis Merenstein suggested two Van Morrison songs […]
#Apartheid #Madiba #MiriamMakeba #SouthAfrica #OldAfricanMusic
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Hugh Masekela – Bring Back Nelson Mandela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-bring-back-nelson-mandela/
“Bring Back Nelson Mandela” is one of Masekela’s composition at the time of apartheid in South Africa, as he was a clear anti-apartheid activist.
Also known as “Bring Him Back Home“, the song is an anthemic anti-apartheid protest song written by South African musician Hugh Masekela.
#Apartheid #HughMasekela #Jazz #Madiba #QOTD #SouthAfrica #OldAfricanMusic
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Miriam Makeba & Hugh Masekela – Soweto Blues
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-hugh-masekela-soweto-blues/
Freedom song! Soweto Blues, released in 1977, is a protest song written by Hugh Masekela and performed by Miriam Makeba.
The song is about the Soweto uprising that occurred in 1976, following the decision by the apartheid government of South Africa to make Afrikaans a medium of instruction [...]
#Apartheid #Documentary #HughMasekela #Jazz #Madiba #MiriamMakeba #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
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Paul Simon – Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
https://amf.didiermary.fr/paul-simon-diamonds-soles-shoes/
“Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes” recorded live @ The African Concert in 1987 with Joseph Shabalala & Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The song features on Graceland, the seventh solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon.
“Graceland: The African Concert” was given in Zimbabwe, featuring such South African musicians [...]
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Paul Simon & Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Homeless
https://amf.didiermary.fr/paul-simon-ladysmith-black-mambazo-homeless/
Graceland is the seventh solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was released on August 25, 1986. The song “Homeless” was the first recorded by Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo with lead singer Joseph Shabalala. It is considered one of the first modern “WorldMusic” albums, although [...]
#80smusic #Apartheid #Documentary #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica #Global
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Somi revisits Pata Pata
https://amf.didiermary.fr/somi-revisits-pata-pata/
This cover of Pata Pata is from "Zenzile, The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba," released, at the end of 2022, in which Somi reinterprets 17 songs of Mama Africa with a jazzy approach. At regular intervals, we hear excerpts from an interview with Mama Africa who explains in no uncertain terms what apartheid is. Somi brought […]
#Jazz #MiriamMakeba #Rwanda #SouthAfrica #Uganda #AfroJazz #Apartheid
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One Night in Pelican
https://amf.didiermary.fr/one-night-pelican/
“One Night in Pelican” is a compilation that features all the key groups and players of a special time and place. It captures the musical dreams escaping from Soweto’s first nightclub.
Ten seminal tracks journeying through Jazz, Funk, Fusion and Disco, detailing the incredible story and sounds behind the Soweto nightclub during the height of […]
#70smusic #AfroFunk #Apartheid #Jazz #SoulJazz #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
Edited 6d ago
Prophets of da City – Never Again
https://amf.didiermary.fr/prophets-of-da-city-never-again/
A track that’s part of (music) history.
PoC (Prophets of da City) was the 1st HipHop group/crew to release in South Africa and the only group to be banned pre and post apartheid!
Prophets of da City (POC) is a socially conscious […]
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