SPIRITS REJOICE! by SPIRITS REJOICE

SKU133151
ArtistSPIRITS REJOICE
TitleSPIRITS REJOICE!
LabelFREDERIKSBERG RECORDS
Catalog #FRB 016
Tag
ReleaseW 22 - 2024
FormatVinyl - EULP
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Tracks

  1. emakhaya
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/f/frb_016_spirits_rejoice/spirits_rejoice_-_spirits_rejoice_-_01_emakhaya.mp3
  2. woza uzo kudanisa nathi
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/f/frb_016_spirits_rejoice/spirits_rejoice_-_spirits_rejoice_-_02_woza_uzo_kudanisa_nathi.mp3
  3. music is our purpose
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/f/frb_016_spirits_rejoice/spirits_rejoice_-_spirits_rejoice_-_03_music_is_our_purpose.mp3
  4. spirits
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/f/frb_016_spirits_rejoice/spirits_rejoice_-_spirits_rejoice_-_04_spirits.mp3
  5. happy and in love
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/f/frb_016_spirits_rejoice/spirits_rejoice_-_spirits_rejoice_-_05_happy_and_in_love.mp3
  6. confusions
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/f/frb_016_spirits_rejoice/spirits_rejoice_-_spirits_rejoice_-_06_confusions.mp3
  7. why all this time
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/f/frb_016_spirits_rejoice/spirits_rejoice_-_spirits_rejoice_-_07_why_all_this_time.mp3
  8. papa's funk
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/f/frb_016_spirits_rejoice/spirits_rejoice_-_spirits_rejoice_-_08_papas_funk.mp3

Description

*Remastered from tape - includes booklet with detailed liner notes.**

Released in 1978- now re-issued for the first time, the 2nd album from South African jazz/fusion power house, Spirits Rejoice.

The 1970s is regarded as a period of experimentation, boundary-breaking and hybridization in modern music and this spirit certainly informed the mushrooming of ideas that occurred in South African jazz during this time. In the shadow of more commercial township jive and soul, South African jazz evolved on the fringe, nurtured by passionate and enterprising independent producers who courted the interest of the mainstream with enchanting concoctions of jazz with folk, rock, soul and funk.

With a line-up hailing from far flung regions of South Africa, the mercurial sound of Spirits Rejoice and its willingness to weave a patchwork of different influences into its recordings is not hard to account for. More difficult to reconcile is that the band didn’t manage to level up to the status enjoyed by its peers in larger music markets abroad. Nevertheless, Spirits Rejoice has maintained its revered status in the collective memory of South African jazz for over four decades and their recorded artifacts return in the 2020s with the group’s vitality and energy undiminished.

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