AVE AFRICA (2LP+2CD) by SUNBURST
Tracks
- Kitoto Sound
- Ukuti Ukuti
- Ba Motoka Na Castle
- Kamungulwe
- Your Day Will Come
- Ani Uni
- Wakulu Wa Kuno
- We Need Each Other
- Alhamdullilah
- Ntambwa
- How Can I Get To You
- Ave Africa
- Simba Anguruma
- Kipato Sina
- Vijana
- Black Is Beautiful
- Enzi Za Utumwani
- Instrumental
- Simba Anguruma
- Black Is Beautiful
- Wakulu Wa Kuno
- Kosa Langu Mpenzi
Description
Strut presents a definitive collection of recordings from one of Tanzania's most revered bands of the early 1970s, Sunburst. Covering their output from 1973 to 1976, this first retrospective features their singles for the Moto Moto and TFC labels, their sole album, 'Ave Africa' and an unreleased radio session recorded in Tanzania in 1973. Check!
For hardcore fans of lesser-known African music, Sunburst has always been a under-appreciated outfit. Formed in Tanzania in 1970, the band released a handful of 7" singles and a lone album, Ave Africa, developing a sound that blended Afro-rock, Zamrock, and the Caribbean-influenced fusion style, Kitoto. This Afro-Western-Caribbean fusion is explored extensively on this first career retrospective. While the set also includes tracks from a previously unissued radio session, it mostly mines their officially released output. Spiritual, inventive, intoxicating and entertaining, the music showcased on Ave Africa seems to inhabit a sound space all of its' own, but is rarely less than superb.