INHLUPEKO by THE SOUL JAZZMEN

Another unmissable, scorching Matsuli revive! Tete Mbambisa and co, chasing the mbaqanga in Trane. Five originals and Love For Sale, from Johannesburg, 1969 !�Both urban Africans and urban Americans were consciously crafting �modern� music � and in South Africa�s case, it was a modernism deliberately and defiantly set in opposition to the narrow, backwards-looking parochialism of apartheid, where some white universities did not even permit gender-mixed dancing until the 1970s. The sophisticated, snappily-dressed black players of South Africa�s cities in the 1960s were not trying to �be like� America; rather, they were enacting in their performance, and reaching through their horns for what a new South Africa might sound like.� 180g vinyl with excellent sound; photographs from the Ian Bruce Huntley archive and concert bills; extended notes.