Born To Be Black: A Celebration Of The Conscious Soul

by Amandla Freedom Ensemble

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1.	Malcolm's Ex 04:29	buy track
2.	Ndingiliza 01:58	buy track
3.	Daddie's Funk 06:24	buy track
4.	SK.O.A.D 07:25	buy track
5.	Mama Ngibongakonke 09:32	buy track
6.	#Movement 05:16	buy track
7.	Izingxoxo 05:25	buy track
8.	Isikhumbuzo 05:11	buy track

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Born To Be Black: A Celebration Of The Conscious Soul is a twelve-track odyssey is intended to be a proclamative journey of musical meditation and healing. A journey into the less travelled. Musical territories where sonic realms are constantly in flux. Ours is a canvas of our imagination where our colours are hues of an ascending melodic line or the crescendo of boisterous horns grooving to the syncopated rhythms of a new song. The assemblage of such diverse musicianship has culminated in a much-anticipated offering that will surely proclaim the deep well of musical nourishment that exists in South African jazz today.

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released November 23, 2017

Ariel Zamonsky - bass, Tumi Mogorosi drums (1-5 and 9-10) Yonela Mnana piano (6,9-11) Gontse Makhene percussion, Sisonke Xonti tenor sax (1-4 and 11) bari sax (5,6,9) Pscar Rachabane tenor sax (6,9-11) Nhlanhla Mahlangu alto sax, Mandla Mlangeni trumpet
Special Guests:
Louis Moholo drums (6,7,8,11)
Andile Yenana piano (1-5)
Salim Washington bass clarinet (1.2.3.5) tenor sax (4,9) flute (10)
Shabaka Hutchings tenor sax (1,2,6,8,11)
Resonance String Quartet (8,10,12)
Kabelo Mothomi violin 1, Kabelo Monnathebe violin 2, Tiisetso Mashishi viola, Daliwonga Tshangela cello

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Amandla Freedom Ensemble Johannesburg, South Africa

The Amandla Freedom Ensemble highlights the compositional material of bandleader Mandla Mlangeni(trumpet) and executed by an impeccable dynamism by the ensemble in the form of Tumi Mogorosi (drums), Ariel Zamonsky (bass) Oscar Rachabane and Nhlanhla Mahlangu (tenor saxophones). ... more

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