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VA - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (2025)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 306 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 MB
1:03:55 | African, World, Blues, Folk | Label: Matsuli Music Limited
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 306 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 MB
1:03:55 | African, World, Blues, Folk | Label: Matsuli Music Limited
Zulu Guitar's Pioneering Tricksters But for this compilation of rescued songs masterfully restored from rare 78 rpm shellacs, few could imagine the diversely beautiful roots of Zulu Guitar Music emerging during the period 1950 – 1965. Story-tellers and master musicians appropriate outlaw personae, re-purpose country and western, Hawaiian and other styles, to stretch and challenge our notion of “the Zulu guitar”. Twenty-five songs (18 on vinyl) plunge us into the depths of the migrant experience. Translations in the liner notes offer us glimpses of pugnacity, melancholy and heartache, all coloured by the paternalism that circumscribed the singers’ apartheid-dominated lives.
The early mbaqanga undertow in many of the songs subverts the wanderlust of Country and Western music into a fugitivity burdened by nostalgia. Something irretrievable has been lost, prompting a blending of ideas and cultures to make sense through thankless acts of musical divination. Inadvertently they have been thrust into the role of the antihero, where outwitting competition for lovers is as important as evading the Black Jacks (apartheid’s municipal cops) and their informants.
Considering the politically repressive period that this music emerges from, we can surmise that the specificity in the storytelling went a long way towards evading censure. But even when words are absent, there is a narrative arc suggested by the musical expression.
With most of the master tapes wilfully destroyed or lost, modern transcription and restoration techniques from the original shellac discs present the original sound most likely more clearly than ever heard before.
Tracklist
1. Almon Memela - Amapoyisa (02:36)
2. Cowboy Superman - Ntombi Kazipheli
3. Mfongozi Guitar Players - Marabi Jazz
4. Casper Shiki - Ngazula (02:04)
5. The Play Singer - Kusile Dale
6. Elliot Gumede - Amasoka
7. The Play Singer - Imitwalo
8. Enoch Mahlobo and Shezi - Wenzani
9. The Blind Man with his Guitar - Isoka Labaleka
10. Nongomo Trio - Guga Mzimba
11. The Play Singer - Nga Fika Ekaya (02:31)
12. Cowboy Superman - I Lele Insizwa
13. Mbaqanga Guitar Trio - Come Again?
14. Cowboy Sweethearts - Sambamba Lomfana
15. Cowboy Superman and Beauty - Kumnandi Kwazulu
16. The Blind Guitar Player - Ungakhulumi
17. Thoko and Almon - MaNdlovu
18. Zachariah and his Guitar - Abafana
19. Mampondo and Sobantu - Themba Lami
20. Baca Boys - Ngiyamqoma
21. Dennis Khanyile - Thembile
22. The Play Singer - U Ngi Cebe E Poisen
23. Mike Khuzwayo and the Playboys - Zibedu
24. The Blind Man and his Guitar - Uncedo Wabantu
25. Almon Memela - Lashona
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