Next Stop... Soweto
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Various Artists
Next Stop... Soweto
[ Strut Records / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 March 2010
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Strut follow their recent forays into Nigerian and Ethio grooves with 'Next Stop Soweto', exploring the vibrant energy of the township jive sound during the late '60s and '70s.
With 'Next Stop Soweto', Strut trace some of the amazing music that often only appeared on short run 45s at the time, including tracks by smaller and lesser known bands that plied their trade under apartheid during the years before the tumultuous Soweto uprising of 1976. Featuring music recorded primarily for the local market, it takes the listener far beyond the accepted township jive template into fusions with jazz, gospel, rumba, funk and traditional mining songs, all under-pinned by a gritty, uncompromising edge.
The 'Next Stop Soweto' is the result of several years of painstaking research and vinyl archaeology in South Africa by compilers Duncan Brooker and Francis Gooding.
