Hugh Masekela with Kalahari

WB 25566 Recorded in London between January and September 1986.

1 Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela) (Became prophetic in the next decade with the release of Nelson Mandela from prison)
2 Mayibuye
3 Ke Bale
4 London Fog - (About human homesickness)
5 Everybody’s Standing Up (This song celebrates the imminent fall of several of the world’s petty dictators)
6 Bird on the Wing
7 Something for Nothing
8 Serengeti

Masekela often performs sophisticated takes on three-chord township jive, leading the massed vocals with his own coarse yet evocatively blunt voice, while leaving himself just enough room to peel off a few patented, repeated-note trumpet licks and double-tracked flugelhorn statements.

from wiki:
“Hugh Ramopolo Masekela (b. Witbank, South Africa, April 4, 1939) is an South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer. Masekela is an acknowledged master of African music.”

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Later on the record, the keys turn minor but the high-tech verve is still there. His backup band, Kalahari, and a quartet of vocalists share Masekela’s passion — and the outcome of this chemistry is one of Masekela’s best albums of the last 20 years.

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