Batsumi
South-African Soweto Jazz

Batsumi

Batsumi

€ 29,95
  • LP
Label
Matsuli Music
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Description

During the brutal era in South African history known as Apartheid, the minority-white ruling party forcibly moved millions of black South Africans from their homes to segregated areas, stripping them of their citizenship and reassigning them to tribal Bantu status. But even in the face of this outrageous oppression, South African music thrived.  From this difficult environment came the self-titled debut from Soweto band Batsumi, one of the region’s most unusual and lush jazz albums., Batsumi sits as true crate-digger classics—exceptionally rare albums that far exceed the hype generated by their scarcity. Batsumi was inspired by the Black Consciousness Movement of the late 1960s, which was led by anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko, whose writings and famous slogan “Black is Beautiful” sought to empower black South Africans. The movement was an assertion of pride, and Batsumi’s raw, indigenous jazz is filled with the same sense of serene self-love that Biko preached.

Tracklist

A

  • 1.Lishonile11:26
  • 2.Emampondweni05:08
  • 3.Mamshanyana04:44

B

  • 1.Itumeleng15:57
  • 2.Anishilabi03:27

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