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Various Artists: Next Stop Soweto Vol 2 (Strut)

...on from the recent and pretty cool Next Stop Soweto (volume one, obviously) comes this even better...

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/3301/various-artists-next-stop-soweto-vol-2-strut/

Various Artists: Next Stop Soweto Vol 3; Giants, Ministers and Makers (Strut)

Subtitled "Jazz in South Africa 1963-1984" this is the third volume in the excellent Strut excavation of crucial SA music which has previously picked up Township jive music and mad funk/psyc

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/3670/various-artists-next-stop-soweto-vol-3-giants-ministers-and-makers-strut/

Various: Next Stop . . . Soweto (Strut/Border)

...scooped up albums like the two volumes of Soweto Street Music, things by Ladysmith Black... ...Rough Trade's Soweto compilation and albums by saxophonist Dudu...

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/2981/various-next-stop-soweto-strut-border/

Dalvanius: Chudka Popoy Ugh Cha Cha (1993)

...African music – a little juju, a little Soweto jive – was written and performed by... ...of producer John O'Shea, he saw a band from Soweto called Soul Brothers and was swept up by their...

From the Vaults: fromthevaults/9880/dalvanius-chudka-popoy-ugh-cha-cha-1993/

SUPERBREW: Journeys in the past

...captured them on the cusp of Coltrane and Soweto township jive (around the same time as Paul... ...In Out and Around; Dollar Brand’s Soweto-groove Namibia; Coltrane’s Afro Blue;...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/3573/superbrew-journeys-in-the-past/

Elsewhere Art . . . Superbrew

...In Out and Around; Dollar Brand’s Soweto-groove Namibia; Coltrane’s Afro Blue;...

Art by Elsewhere: artebyelsewhere/10787/elsewhere-art-superbrew/

National Wake: Walk in Africa 1979-81(Light in the Attic/Southbound)

...Former a couple of years after the uprising in Soweto, they created a furious brew of hard rock,...

Music at Elsewhere: music/6043/national-wake-walk-in-africa-1979-81light-in-the-attic-southbound/

Etoile De Dakar: Once Upon a Time in Senegal (Sterns/Southbound)

...Geraldo Pino, Congotronics from Kinshasa, Soweto township jive, high-life . . . If you can't...

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/3282/etoile-de-dakar-once-upon-a-time-in-senegal-sterns-southbound/

Keleketla!: Keleketla! (Ahead of Our Time/digital outlets)

...Watts Prophets to South African artists from Soweto, West Papua highlands' singers Benny and Maria...

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/9552/keleketla-keleketla-ahead-of-our-time-digital-outlets/

Shin Joong Hyun: Beautiful Rivers and Mountains; The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea 1958-1974 (Light in the Attic/Southbound)

...places such as Kinshasa and Colombia, Soweto and tropicalia-infused Brazil. Because there...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4512/shin-joong-hyun-beautiful-rivers-and-mountains-the-psychedelic-rock-sound-of-south-korea-1958-1974-light-in-the-attic-southbound/

Various Artists: The Sound of Siam (Soundway)

Increasingly the globe becomes a village -- and the local radio station is broadcasting oldies and archival stuff. Consider the recent excavating of music from Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sixties South Africa,

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/3862/various-artists-the-sound-of-siam-soundway/

Joe Harriott: Gana (1967)

...players such as Courtney Pine and Soweto Kinch arrived they hailed Harriott for the...

From the Vaults: fromthevaults/3210/joe-harriott-gana-1967/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE HIGHLY PERSONAL QUESTIONNAIRE: Trudi Green

...I liked the way it mixed girl group with Soweto- both musical styles I loved. Any one person...

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The Famous Elsewhere Questionnaire: thefamouselsewherequestionnaire/9282/the-famous-elsewhere-highly-personal-questionnaire-trudi-green/

SONNY ROLLINS; BEYOND THE NOTES a doco by DICK FONTAINE

...felt I was in a room with God") and Soweto Kinch. This enjoyable, thoughtful and...

Film at Elsewhere: film/6415/sonny-rollins-beyond-the-notes-a-doco-by-dick-fontaine/

PETER GABRIEL, THE RETURN AT LAST (2023): Bright, dark and inside/outside

...Swedish male voice choir, an orchestra and the Soweto Gospel Choir. Despite that collision of...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/10971/peter-gabriel-the-return-at-last-2023-bright-dark-and-inside-outside/

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . LIZZY MERCIER DESCLOUX

...you can hear the early flashes of reggae from Soweto in No Golden Throat (while people seem to...

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . .: weneedtotalkabout/7259/we-need-to-talk-about-lizzy-mercier-descloux/

HUGH MASEKELA INTERVIEWED (2013): Out of Africa

...to his homeland and sees progress (“Soweto two years ago was a dustbowl but today there's...

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/5500/hugh-masekela-interviewed-2013-out-of-africa/

Mulatu Astatke: Mulatu Steps Ahead (Strut)

This transplanted jazz musician from Ethiopia (vibes/keyboards) has been one of the major (re)discoveries of the past few years. His ascent continues on this album which drifts to life on the airy, al

Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/3069/mulatu-astatke-mulatu-steps-ahead-strut/

EPs by Yasmin Brown

...and musical theatre then look no further. Soweto Afronaut have somehow managed to create a...

EPs by Yasmin Brown: yasminbrown/9715/eps-by-yasmin-brown/

PAUL SIMON; GRACELAND, AGAIN (2012): We can all be received . . .

Hard to believe from this distance of some 25 years, but Paul Simon's award-winning and much loved Graceland album of 1986 – which went on to sell around 15 million copies – was once a fla

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/5041/paul-simon-graceland-again-2012-we-can-all-be-received/

WOMAD TARANAKI CONSIDERED (2013): Some thoughts from the frontline

...Kilgour with Billy TK and Sam Hunt, and the Soweto Gospel Choir who struggled on Saturday in the...

World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/5584/womad-taranaki-considered-2013-some-thoughts-from-the-frontline/

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