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Black Disco Night Express

LP MM108£22.99
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Black Disco – Yasmeen's Blues
Black Disco – Night Express
Black Disco – Super Natural Love
Black Disco – Oh Happy Day
Black Disco – Echo On The Delay

1. Yasmeen's Blues
2. Night Express
3. Super Natural Love
4. Oh Happy Day
5. Echo On The Delay
6. Odds On

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Black Disco’s Night Express arrived to instant acclaim in South African townships in 1976. Part Philly-soul, part Cape Jazz and part bump-jive, it immediately struck a chord across apartheid-defined boundaries. “It was our way of saying we are with you”, recalls band leader Pops Mohamed. Originally entitled Black Discovery/Night Express, this was changed to avoid censorship.

The album – part of a series of ‘70s releases, three as Black Disco and two as Movement in the City – lives on as a declaration of musical identity from communities whose jazz histories have hardly been documented yet – the apartheid defined ‘coloured’ townships of Johannesburg’s East Rand.

Matsuli Music reissue this rare gem in deluxe 180g vinyl format, with a original sleeve art printed on reverse card.

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Bea Benjamin with Dollar Brand African Songbird Matsuli Music

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Batsumi Batsumi Matsuli Music

Back in stock! 2016 repress of this landmark afro-jazz album from South Africa! Matsuli follow up their brilliant Dick Khoza reissue with a deep spiritualised...

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Africaine 808 Everybody Wants To Golf Channel

Hot on the heels of the release of their brilliant debut album, Basar, Africaine 808 drop a fresh single. Intriguingly, "Everybody Wants To" is something...

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