ivylander did us all a favor today by declaring Tuesday African music day, so late in the day, PST, I'm getting in on the action. Here are two tracks from 1978 by the Soul Brothers, one of the most popular South African acts of the 1980s. They played a style of pop music called mbaqanga. The track above was a big hit of theirs, "Mantombazane," from their album of the same name, and the one in
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This is their third appearance on MOG. They are from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and were hugely successful in the 1970s. Deaths of some founders between 1979 and 1983 ended their original line-up, but a form of the group, with two original members, kept going with new members and dancers, and played at the Cape Town Jazz Festival last year.The most distinctive parts of their township jive sou...
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So say the biggest mbaqanga group in South African history, the Soul Brothers. Unconnected with the Jamaican group of the same name, they were formed in Soweto in 1974, and have played all round the world, including the Oslo gig when Nelson Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize. This was written by vocalist David Masondo, keyboard star Moses Ngwenya, and guitarist Maxwell Mngadi
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| 1 Amanikiniki |
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| 2 Ibhadi Lami |
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| 3 Ngithembele Kuwe |
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| 4 Izindaba |
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| 5 Awunge Thembi |
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