To an impressionable adolescent who heard them open for a wailing Leo Sayer at Sun City in 1981, it was pure, shivering emotion. Some called it Afrosynth bubblegum some called it crossover soul. Long out of print, the music of this forgotten troubadour is due for re-release by local filmmaker Laurence Hamburger. His solo career saw him quit "monkey jive" for the aural universe of Led Zep and Hendrix, and Chocolate Toffee is Whole Lotta Love meets Purple Haze, only harder, screamier, stranger. Saitana was Monty Ndimande, an original member of The Beaters, who became Harari. This track is off Saitana's solo album Jenakuru. DJ CountercurrentĪ psychedelic rock classic produced in Soweto during the uprising era? Yup. For me, it's the series of precise variations in tempo across the nine minutes: cycles of rejuvenation and subtle drama. Basil Coetzee lays out a saxophone solo of such painful beauty that Drum's jazz critic Joe Thloloe considered his playing to be "better than on the gold disc winner Mannenberg". It's an ambient waltz, with shape-shifting tremolo organ chords in a cyclical mantra. This hypnotic masterpiece capped off a three-year hot streak for the "brother with perfect timing". We compiled a list of 100, and profiled some immortal tunes.īlues for a hip king: Abdullah Ibrahim (1975) The LS team got thinking about South Africa's greatest songs of the past 50 years.
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