DISCOVERY 1975-1976 by BLACK DISCO

SKU130292
ArtistBLACK DISCO
TitleDISCOVERY 1975-1976
LabelAS-SHAMS
Catalog #ASA103
Tag
ReleaseW 39 - 2023
FormatVinyl - EULP
EAN Barcode6001651171853
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Tracks

  1. spiritual feel riding the blue
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/asa103_discovery_1975-1976/a1_spiritual_feel_riding_the_blue.mp3
  2. pops blue
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/asa103_discovery_1975-1976/a2_pops_blue.mp3
  3. night express single version
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/asa103_discovery_1975-1976/a3_night_express_single_version.mp3
  4. kids in the dark
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/asa103_discovery_1975-1976/a4_kids_in_the_dark.mp3
  5. dawn single version
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/asa103_discovery_1975-1976/b1_dawn_single_version.mp3
  6. im organized
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/asa103_discovery_1975-1976/b2_im_organized.mp3
  7. yasmeens blues
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/a/asa103_discovery_1975-1976/b3_yasmeens_blues.mp3
  8. dark clouds part 1

Description

Essential South African jazz, funk and soul - An anthology dedicated to the legendary Black Disco ensemble. Distilling the group’s recorded output into a single commemorative document, Discovery 1975-1976 compiles cuts from the lauded Night Express album alongside rare gems from the group’s long-out-of-print first and third albums. The newly remastered selection features previously unissued single versions of the mighty “Night Express” itself, a funk juggernaut with piercing flute whistles and rapturous sax cries as well as “Dawn” from the album Black Disco 3, a trippy, flute-driven awakening of soft light and gentle colours.

With a Yamaha organ and a dream, Pops Mohamed started his musical journey in the mid-1970s as the bandleader and composer of Black Disco, creating a hip melange of chill-out jazz with futuristic drum machine sounds and spiritual overtones. His cosmic organ transmissions were accompanied by two of the most sought-after session players on the South African scene, the sax and flute wizard Basil Coetzee, who had risen to fame in 1974 as one of the soloists on the hit “Mannenberg,” and Sipho Gumede, the young bass prodigy who was already rubbing shoulders with the old guard at the outset of his career. Backed at first with polyphonic beats from Mohamed’s electric organ and later taking on a drummer, Black Disco created a signature sound and a trilogy of innovative albums in a burst of studio creativity between 1975 and 1976.

On the heels of their epic various artists compilation, As-Shams Archive have produced a doozy of a compilation of some very essential South African jazz.

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