mbaqanga

<p>Mahotella Queens’ Come back (Buya Buya)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/mahotella-queens-come-back-buya/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/mahotella-queens-come-back-buya/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/mahotella-qu</span><span class="invisible">eens-come-back-buya/</span></a></p><p>“Buya Buya: Come Back” is the first full album of exciting new Queens material in nearly 20 years and marks their long-awaited return to the world stage. This release also heralds a new chapter in the Mahotella story under the supervision of Hilda Tloubatla, who at the grand age of 83 is the group’s last […]</p><p><a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/mbaqanga/" rel="tag">#Mbaqanga</a> <a href="/tags/blaugust/" rel="tag">#Blaugust</a></p>

<p>Mahotella Queens – Umculo Kawupheli</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/mahotella-queens-umculo-kawupheli/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/mahotella-queens-umculo-kawupheli/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/mahotella-qu</span><span class="invisible">eens-umculo-kawupheli/</span></a></p><p>The classic Mahotella Queens hit song, “Umculo Kawupheli” (“The music never ends”), from 1973.</p><p>Original song with self-made video, featuring clips of the Queens back in the 1970s with their backing group the Makgona Tsohle Band.</p><p>From the golden age of South African township jive, the country’s premier mbaqanga girl group, the Mahotella Queens, and […]</p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/mbaqanga/" rel="tag">#Mbaqanga</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a></p>

<p>The Indestructible Beat of Soweto</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/indestructible-beat-soweto/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/indestructible-beat-soweto/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/indestructib</span><span class="invisible">le-beat-soweto/</span></a></p><p>The Indestructible Beat of Soweto is a compilation album released in 1985, featuring twelve tracks by artists from South Africa. The sleeve notes state that all songs are in the mbaqanga style, a guitar-based style popular at the time in the townships of Johannesburg and Durban, but the tracks actually cover four different styles, […]</p><p><a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/compilation/" rel="tag">#Compilation</a> <a href="/tags/mbaqanga/" rel="tag">#Mbaqanga</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/blaugust/" rel="tag">#Blaugust</a></p>

<p>Hugh Masekela – Don’t Go Lose It Baby</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-dont-go-lose-it-baby-hot-african-mix-1984/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-dont-go-lose-it-baby-hot-african-mix-1984/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekel</span><span class="invisible">a-dont-go-lose-it-baby-hot-african-mix-1984/</span></a></p><p>The original version of “Don’t Go Lose It Baby”, here in a remixed version, comes from Masekela’s Techno-Bush album in 1984.</p><p>Hugh Masekala and the Medu Art Ensemble offer via their album Techno-Bush an Afro-futurist vision of South Africa. Protesting through sound and dance, after returning [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/fullalbum/" rel="tag">#FullAlbum</a> <a href="/tags/mbaqanga/" rel="tag">#Mbaqanga</a> <a href="/tags/remixed/" rel="tag">#Remixed</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/electro/" rel="tag">#Electro</a></p>

<p>Next Stop Soweto</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/next-stop-soweto-compilations/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/next-stop-soweto-compilations/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/next-stop-so</span><span class="invisible">weto-compilations/</span></a></p><p>“Next Stop Soweto” is a compilation series, to remember an era of South Africa’s musical history where such genres as Funk and Soul were being played by bands even as apartheid firmly gripped the country’s music culture.</p><p>Volume 1 explores the vibrant energy of the township jive sound, whilst Volumes 2 and 3 cover [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/60smusic/" rel="tag">#60smusic</a> <a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/afrofunk/" rel="tag">#AfroFunk</a> <a href="/tags/apartheid/" rel="tag">#Apartheid</a> <a href="/tags/compilation/" rel="tag">#Compilation</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/mbaqanga/" rel="tag">#Mbaqanga</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/afrojazz/" rel="tag">#AfroJazz</a></p>

<p>Thandiswa Mazwai – Zabalaza</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/thandiswa-mazwai-zabalaza/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/thandiswa-mazwai-zabalaza/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/thandiswa-ma</span><span class="invisible">zwai-zabalaza/</span></a></p><p>“Lah’lumlenze” off the album “Zabalaza” by Thandiswa Mazwai, once the lead singer of genre bending South African band Bongo Maffin.</p><p>After five albums with Bongo Maffin, Thandiswa ventured onto a solo career. Her first project, Zabalaza (2004), reached double-platinum status and won numerous awards, including a Kora award for Best African Female and four South […]</p><p><a href="/tags/mbaqanga/" rel="tag">#Mbaqanga</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a></p>

<p>Professor Rhythm 3 (1991)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/professor-rhythm-1991/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/professor-rhythm-1991/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/professor-rh</span><span class="invisible">ythm-1991/</span></a></p><p>The 1991 record “Professor 3” by Professor Rhythm is a vivid reflection of urban South Africa as apartheid was ending. Thami Mdluli’s production project had young and old dancing to a sound that sought to unite Blacks within Southern Africa. The late 1970’s and 80’s had been trying times for people of color. […]</p><p><a href="/tags/90smusic/" rel="tag">#90smusic</a> <a href="/tags/disco/" rel="tag">#Disco</a> <a href="/tags/mbaqanga/" rel="tag">#Mbaqanga</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/oldafricanmusic/" rel="tag">#OldAfricanMusic</a></p>

<p>Zulu Guitar Blues: Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950–1965.</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/zulu-guitar-blues/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/zulu-guitar-blues/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/zulu-guitar-</span><span class="invisible">blues/</span></a></p><p>&quot;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 [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/50smusic/" rel="tag">#50smusic</a> <a href="/tags/60smusic/" rel="tag">#60smusic</a> <a href="/tags/blues/" rel="tag">#Blues</a> <a href="/tags/compilation/" rel="tag">#Compilation</a> <a href="/tags/mbaqanga/" rel="tag">#Mbaqanga</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/oldafricanmusic/" rel="tag">#OldAfricanMusic</a></p>

<p>Almon Memela (Soweto)</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/almon-memela-soweto/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/almon-memela-soweto/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/almon-memela</span><span class="invisible">-soweto/</span></a></p><p>Born in 1936, Almon Memela is (was?) a South African composer, guitarist and producer, from Donnybrook, KwaZulu-Natal, who taught himself to play guitar as a child (first on homemade instruments and with no encouragement from his family). A remarkably versatile artist, his music went from Soul Jazz and Jive to Mbaqanga and AfroFunk. [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/70smusic/" rel="tag">#70smusic</a> <a href="/tags/afrofunk/" rel="tag">#AfroFunk</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#Jazz</a> <a href="/tags/mbaqanga/" rel="tag">#Mbaqanga</a> <a href="/tags/souljazz/" rel="tag">#SoulJazz</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a> <a href="/tags/oldafricanmusic/" rel="tag">#OldAfricanMusic</a></p>

<p>Thandiswa Mazwai – Vana Vevhu</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/thandiswa-mazwai-funk-afrika-vana-vehu-live/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/thandiswa-mazwai-funk-afrika-vana-vehu-live/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/thandiswa-ma</span><span class="invisible">zwai-funk-afrika-vana-vehu-live/</span></a></p><p>From the live album “Dance of the Forgotten Free” recorded by Thandiswa Mazwai at a concert in 2010.</p><p>After five albums with the band “Bongo Maffin”, Thandiswa Mazwai ventured onto a solo career. Her first project, Zabalaza (2004), reached double-platinum status and won numerous awards, including a Kora award for Best African Female and four […]</p><p><a href="/tags/afrofunk/" rel="tag">#AfroFunk</a> <a href="/tags/livemusic/" rel="tag">#LiveMusic</a> <a href="/tags/mbaqanga/" rel="tag">#Mbaqanga</a> <a href="/tags/souljazz/" rel="tag">#SoulJazz</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a></p>

<p>Mahlathini &amp; Mahotella Queens – Kazet</p><p><a href="https://amf.didiermary.fr/mahlathini-mahotella-queens-kazet/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="amf.didiermary.fr/mahlathini-mahotella-queens-kazet/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amf.didiermary.fr/mahlathini-m</span><span class="invisible">ahotella-queens-kazet/</span></a></p><p>Surnommé “Le Lion de Soweto” pour sa voix de “groaner“, Simon Nkabinde Mahlathini est une des figures mythiques du mbaqanga. Il s’est fait connaître internationalement dans les années 1980 au sein de la formation Mahlathini et Mahotella Queens.</p><p>The Mahotella Queens est un groupe féminin sud-africain. A l’origine, c’est un groupe d’enregistrement en studio [...]</p><p><a href="/tags/80smusic/" rel="tag">#80smusic</a> <a href="/tags/mbaqanga/" rel="tag">#Mbaqanga</a> <a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#SouthAfrica</a></p>