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Ndikho Xaba and the Natives: Revolutionary Spiritual Afro-Jazz From '71
Ndikho Xaba and the Natives: Revolutionary Spiritual Afro-Jazz From '71

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"Matsuli Music presents soul, spirituality and avant-garde jazz from South African political exile Ndikho Xaba. Its rarity has until now served to obscure both its beauty and its historical significance. Making profound links between the struggle against apartheid and the Black Power movement in the USA Ndikho Xaba and the Natives is arguably the most complete and complex South African jazz LP recorded in the USA. It stands out as a critical document in the history of transatlantic black solidarity and in the jazz culture of South African exiles. This reissue from Matsuli Music brings this collectors’ treasure back into print for the first time since 1971.

Ndikho Xaba and the Natives opens a fluid channel of sonic energy that courses between two liberation struggles and two jazz traditions, making them one. It is a critical statement in the history of transatlantic black solidarity, unifying voices stretching from San Francisco to Johannesburg. There is no other recording or group in which the new jazz spirituality of the late 1960s is so fully blent with an African jazz tradition.

The limited edition vinyl edition is presented with re-mastered sound in a gatefold sleeve containing unseen photographs and concert bills from Ndikho Xaba’s personal archive together with a personal recollection from Plunky Branch and extensive sleeve-notes written by Francis Gooding. The CD version reproduces this new content in a 24 page booklet as well including two additional tracks taken from a hard to find single released by Ndikho Xaba’s band Zulu Lunchbag." - Matsuli Music

Ndikho Xaba - piano, percusion, bullhorn, seaweed horn
Plunky - tenor, soprano sax, flute, percussion
Lon Moshe - vibes, percussion
Duru - congas, percussion
Shabalala - bass
Kieta - drums
Arranged by Ndikho, produced by the Natives
Recorded and edited by Austin McCoy
Art conception by Nomusa Xaba
Original album design by Eddie Horan
Originally released on Trilyte Records
2015 edition produced by Matt Temple and Chris Albertyn of Matsuli Music under license from Ndikho Xaba
Liner notes by Francis Gooding
Recollections by J Plunky Blanch
Audio restoration by Colin at See Why Audio
Vinyl cut by Frank at The Carvery

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