Various Artists - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (2025) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Various Artists
- Title: Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered]
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: Matsuli Music Limited
- Genre: Afrikan, Jazz, Folk, World
- Quality: FLAC 24/96000; 16/44100; MP3 320
- Total Time: 01:04:06
- Total Size: 150; 302; 1203 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Zulu Guitar's Pioneering Tricksters
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 appropriate outlaw personae, re-purpose country and western, Hawaiian and other styles, to stretch and challenge our notion of “the Zulu guitar”.
Twenty-five songs (18 on vinyl) plunge us into the depths of the migrant experience. Translations in the liner notes offer us glimpses of pugnacity, melancholy and heartache, all coloured by the paternalism that circumscribed the singers’ apartheid-dominated lives.
The early mbaqanga undertow in many of the songs subverts the wanderlust of Country and Western music into a fugitivity burdened by nostalgia. Something irretrievable has been lost, prompting a blending of ideas and cultures to make sense through thankless acts of musical divination. Inadvertently they have been thrust into the role of the antihero, where outwitting competition for lovers is as important as evading the Black Jacks (apartheid’s municipal cops) and their informants.
Considering the politically repressive period that this music emerges from, we can surmise that the specificity in the storytelling went a long way towards evading censure. But even when words are absent, there is a narrative arc suggested by the musical expression.
With most of the master tapes wilfully destroyed or lost, modern transcription and restoration techniques from the original shellac discs present the original sound most likely more clearly than ever heard before.
Tracklist:
01-01 Almon Memela - Amapoyisa (2025 Remaster) [2:37]
01-02 Cowboy Superman - Ntombi Kazipheli (2025 Remaster) [2:38]
01-03 Mfongozi Guitar Players - Marabi Jazz (2025 Remaster) [2:48]
01-04 Casper Shiki - Ngazula (2025 Remaster) [2:05]
01-05 The Play Singer - Kusile Dale (2025 Remaster) [2:36]
01-06 Elliot Gumede - Amasoka (2025 Remaster) [2:16]
01-07 The Play Singer - Imitwalo (2025 Remaster) [2:42]
01-08 Enoch Mahlobo and Shezi - Wenzani (2025 Remaster) [2:34]
01-09 The Blind Man with his Guitar - Isoka Labaleka (2025 Remaster) [2:20]
01-10 Nongomo Trio - Guga Mzimba (2025 Remaster) [2:44]
01-11 The Play Singer - Nga Fika Ekaya (2025 Remaster) [2:32]
01-12 Cowboy Superman - I Lele Insizwa (2025 Remaster) [2:59]
01-13 Mbaqanga Guitar Trio - Come Again? (2025 Remaster) [2:28]
01-14 Cowboy Sweethearts - Sambamba Lomfana (2025 Remaster) [2:48]
01-15 Cowboy Superman and Beauty - Kumnandi Kwazulu (2025 Remaster) [2:34]
01-16 The Blind Guitar Player - Ungakhulumi (2025 Remaster) [2:19]
01-17 Thoko and Almon - MaNdlovu (2025 Remaster) [2:31]
01-18 Zachariah and his Guitar - Abafana (2025 Remaster) [2:43]
01-19 Mampondo and Sobantu - Themba Lami (2025 Remaster) [2:39]
01-20 Baca Boys - Ngiyamqoma (2025 Remaster) [2:19]
01-21 Dennis Khanyile - Thembile (2025 Remaster) [2:31]
01-22 The Play Singer - U Ngi Cebe E Poisen (2025 Remaster) [2:53]
01-23 Mike Khuzwayo and the Playboys - Zibedu (2025 Remaster) [2:31]
01-24 The Blind Man with his Guitar - Unledo Wabantu (2025 Remaster) [2:20]
01-25 Almon Memela - Lashona (2025 Remaster) [2:40]
Various Artists - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) 2025 Remastered 24-bit-96000-Hz flac.zip - 1.2 GB
Various Artists - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) 2025 Remastered flac.zip - 302.8 MB
Various Artists - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) 2025 Remastered mp3.zip - 149.9 MB
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 appropriate outlaw personae, re-purpose country and western, Hawaiian and other styles, to stretch and challenge our notion of “the Zulu guitar”.
Twenty-five songs (18 on vinyl) plunge us into the depths of the migrant experience. Translations in the liner notes offer us glimpses of pugnacity, melancholy and heartache, all coloured by the paternalism that circumscribed the singers’ apartheid-dominated lives.
The early mbaqanga undertow in many of the songs subverts the wanderlust of Country and Western music into a fugitivity burdened by nostalgia. Something irretrievable has been lost, prompting a blending of ideas and cultures to make sense through thankless acts of musical divination. Inadvertently they have been thrust into the role of the antihero, where outwitting competition for lovers is as important as evading the Black Jacks (apartheid’s municipal cops) and their informants.
Considering the politically repressive period that this music emerges from, we can surmise that the specificity in the storytelling went a long way towards evading censure. But even when words are absent, there is a narrative arc suggested by the musical expression.
With most of the master tapes wilfully destroyed or lost, modern transcription and restoration techniques from the original shellac discs present the original sound most likely more clearly than ever heard before.
Tracklist:
01-01 Almon Memela - Amapoyisa (2025 Remaster) [2:37]
01-02 Cowboy Superman - Ntombi Kazipheli (2025 Remaster) [2:38]
01-03 Mfongozi Guitar Players - Marabi Jazz (2025 Remaster) [2:48]
01-04 Casper Shiki - Ngazula (2025 Remaster) [2:05]
01-05 The Play Singer - Kusile Dale (2025 Remaster) [2:36]
01-06 Elliot Gumede - Amasoka (2025 Remaster) [2:16]
01-07 The Play Singer - Imitwalo (2025 Remaster) [2:42]
01-08 Enoch Mahlobo and Shezi - Wenzani (2025 Remaster) [2:34]
01-09 The Blind Man with his Guitar - Isoka Labaleka (2025 Remaster) [2:20]
01-10 Nongomo Trio - Guga Mzimba (2025 Remaster) [2:44]
01-11 The Play Singer - Nga Fika Ekaya (2025 Remaster) [2:32]
01-12 Cowboy Superman - I Lele Insizwa (2025 Remaster) [2:59]
01-13 Mbaqanga Guitar Trio - Come Again? (2025 Remaster) [2:28]
01-14 Cowboy Sweethearts - Sambamba Lomfana (2025 Remaster) [2:48]
01-15 Cowboy Superman and Beauty - Kumnandi Kwazulu (2025 Remaster) [2:34]
01-16 The Blind Guitar Player - Ungakhulumi (2025 Remaster) [2:19]
01-17 Thoko and Almon - MaNdlovu (2025 Remaster) [2:31]
01-18 Zachariah and his Guitar - Abafana (2025 Remaster) [2:43]
01-19 Mampondo and Sobantu - Themba Lami (2025 Remaster) [2:39]
01-20 Baca Boys - Ngiyamqoma (2025 Remaster) [2:19]
01-21 Dennis Khanyile - Thembile (2025 Remaster) [2:31]
01-22 The Play Singer - U Ngi Cebe E Poisen (2025 Remaster) [2:53]
01-23 Mike Khuzwayo and the Playboys - Zibedu (2025 Remaster) [2:31]
01-24 The Blind Man with his Guitar - Unledo Wabantu (2025 Remaster) [2:20]
01-25 Almon Memela - Lashona (2025 Remaster) [2:40]
Various Artists - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) 2025 Remastered 24-bit-96000-Hz flac.zip - 1.2 GB
Various Artists - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) 2025 Remastered flac.zip - 302.8 MB
Various Artists - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) 2025 Remastered mp3.zip - 149.9 MB
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