Matsuli - Bheki Mseleku Celebration LP
The story goes that Alice Coltrane gave her late husband’s saxophone mouthpiece to Bheki,
recognising in the South African pianist ‘a kindred spirit to John Coltrane.’
His first release under his own name,
Celebration was recorded and produced by World Circuit,
who originally issued it on compact disc and cassette in 1992.
Roiling with an historical sense of transition and upheaval,
the sessions brought together musicians from SA,
London and the US in the same months as the dismantling of apartheid,
as if to put in lights the accession of South Africa to the to-and-fro of Black Atlantic culture.
Counterposed to the album’s disclosure of the personal toll of exile,
its evocations of inner peace and transendence are unmistakably marked by Trane and Pharoah Sanders,
but elsewhere European classical forms and township marabi and mbhaqanga come to the fore.
‘The first thing that struck me about this album was the feeling of the music,’ says Shabaka Hutchings.
‘It had so much joy. It felt like it was so much more than the intricacies
of how he was creating the music; it invoked the feeling of why this music was being made.’
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Es heißt, Alice Coltrane habe Bheki das Saxophonmundstück ihres verstorbenen Mannes geschenkt,
Sie erkannte in dem südafrikanischen Pianisten "einen verwandten Geist zu John Coltrane".
Seine erste Veröffentlichung unter eigenem Namen,
Celebration wurde von World Circuit aufgenommen und produziert,
die es ursprünglich 1992 auf Compact Disc und Kassette veröffentlichten.
Das Album ist geprägt von einem historischen Gefühl des Übergangs und des Umbruchs,
brachten die Sessions Musiker aus SA,
London und den USA zusammen, und zwar in denselben Monaten, in denen die Apartheid abgeschafft wurde,
als ob sie den Beitritt Südafrikas zum Hin und Her der schwarzen atlantischen Kultur verdeutlichen sollten.
Im Gegensatz zu dem Album, das den persönlichen Tribut des Exils offenbart,
sind seine Beschwörungen von innerem Frieden und Transzendenz unverkennbar von Trane und Pharoah Sanders geprägt,
aber an anderer Stelle treten europäische klassische Formen und Township Marabi und Mbhaqanga in den Vordergrund.
Das erste, was mir an diesem Album auffiel, war das Gefühl der Musik", sagt Shabaka Hutchings.
Sie hatte so viel Freude. Ich hatte das Gefühl, dass es um so viel mehr ging als um die Feinheiten
wie er die Musik gemacht hat, sondern das Gefühl, warum diese Musik gemacht wurde.
Honest Jons
DER Platten Laden überhaupt am Ende der Portobello Road Londons. Egal ob spektakuläre Reissues oder super aktuelle und grossartige elektronische Musik - Honest Jon's hat die Finger im Spiel. "Informal University for music lovers" - wird der Laden liebevoll genannt und ist seit 1974 das Herz der Londoner Musik Community. Das Label Honest Jon's wird unter anderem von Notting Hill local Damon Albarn mitbetrieben. Seit 2008 veröffentlicht Honest Jon's immer wieder Leckerbissen aus den 150 000 78 - rpm Aufnahmen aus den klimakontrollierten archivräumen der EMI archives in Hayes England.
Erhältlich bei: Kitchener Bern
www.honestjons.com
EN: Honest Jon's is an independent record shop based on Portobello Road in Ladbroke Grove, London, operating since 1974. The shop is owned and run by Mark Ainley and Alan Scholefield, who took over from one of the original proprietors, "Honest" Jon Clare. Their record label of the same name is run in conjunction with Damon Albarn, who has been quoted as saying: "I don't really like the term world music. Wherever it comes from, it's all just music, isn't it? Hopefully that's what Honest Jon's is about - to open a few minds to what's out there."[1] The shop sells a multitude of genres of music on vinyl and CD, specializing in jazz, blues, reggae, dance, soul, folk and outernational. It runs a mail-order business from www.honestjons.com. Formed in 2002, the label has released compilation albums such as its London Is The Place For Me series, excavating the music of young Black London, in the years after World War II ("a fascinating archive of material from the 1950s and 60s, chronicling a time when diasporic rhythms were more or less the sole preserve of the small communities responsible for bringing them to these shores");[2] also collections of British folk, Port-of-Spain soca, Afro-Cuban jazz from the Bronx, Jamaican dancehall; and retrospectives of artists including Moondog, Maki Asakawa, Bettye Swann and Cedric "Im" Brooks & The Light of Saba. It has released original music by Candi Staton, Actress, T++, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Mark Ernestus, Trembling Bells, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Simone White, Shackleton, Michael Hurley, Terry Hall, and the Moritz Von Oswald Trio. It recorded the chaabi orchestra of Abdel Hadi Halo on location in Algiers; Lobi Traore and Kokanko Sata Doumbia in Bamako; and Tony Allen in Lagos. In 2008, Honest Jon's began a run of compilations of early recordings — mostly drawn from the EMI Archive in Hayes, Hillingdon — stretching back to the start of the twentieth century, covering all corners of the world: from the break-up of the Ottoman Empire more than a hundred years ago, to 1950s Beirut, to late-1920s Baghdad, to 1930s East Africa. wikipedia
