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レアグルーヴ~スピリチュアル・ジャズ的な観点で南アフリカに残された数多の音源から復刻するMATSULIレーベルの新作。
南アフリカのポピュラーミュージックとモータウンやフィリー・サウンドがクロスオーバーした脅威のスピリチュアル・ジャズ・ファンク。
とにかく2曲目のNight Express がkiller track なので、聴いてみてください。

Insurgently crossing Philly Soul, Cape Jazz and bump jive in 1976, the same year as the Soweto Uprising; poignantly shot through with Timmy Thomas’ Why Can’t We Live Together. ‘It was so important for us to play a kind of crossover then, to weave in touches of Motown, Philadelphia soul and Teddy Pendergrass that the coloured community appreciated, and Basil’s Cape Town sound, and Sipho’s sound that was legendary in the black community, and make music that people could all enjoy together... The regime divided us: people classified coloured had identity documents; black people had the dompas. We didn’t accept that separation. Sipho, although he was born in KZN, could play any feel. Sometime he’d joke, Does my bass line feel coloured enough?’Another landmark Matsuli. The title track is killer.





1976 Original Release
Pops Mohamed - Organ
Basil Coetzee - Flute, Tenor Sax
Sipho Gumede - Bass
Peter Morake - Drums
Peter Cerino - Recording Engineer
Rashid Vally - Producer
Recorded at the Gallo Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa

2016 Reissue
Matt Temple, Chris Albertyn - Producers
Siemon Allen - Artwork and Design
Colin Young - Audio Restoration
Frank Merrit - Audio Remaster and Vinyl Cut
Gwen Ansell - Sleeve notes