AFRICAN MELTDOWN VOLUME ONE - PADARE
MOOD AFRICA
Africa has been my source of musical and spiritual inspiration since early manhood, ever challenging my inner ear in search of the musical energy. Africa is where I found the roots of all the music on this album compiled by Mario Cee with my help and mastered by chief Chris Lewis during long days at my home mastering facility.
The choice of both traditional and contemporary world music, jazz, kwaito and a variety of electronic remixes on this full length CD represent my deepest feeling for what I call m.e.l.t music - musical energy and loud truth. Purists will no doubt be challenged by the intermingling of aesthetics and techniques. But from quite literally, Cape Town to Cairo, African music is becoming a forum, a meeting place if you like of older wisdom testing the flexibility of the new instruments, closing the spiritual and the digital divide as only music can do. So join our imbizo (gathering) and enjoy some time away from the ordinary,
- Robert Trunz
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PADARE is a Shona word for Meeting Place.
PADARE Track Listing
1. MADIBA (PART 1)
Mabi thobejane
2. YEHLISAN'UMOYA MA-AFRICA (SOUL II BLACK REMIX)
Busi Mhlongo
3. PUSH PA (JANGA)
Brice Wassy
4. NKOSI YAMAMPONDO
DZM Project
5. WASH'UMKHUKHU
Suspects
6. SPIRIT OF THEMBISA
Moses Taiwa Molelekwa
7. UMBOBO
Madala Kunene (Remix by Smith & Mighty)
8. SALAWENA
Amampondo (Remix by Smith & Mighty)
9. NGIHAWUKELE THONGA LAMI
Suzan Hendricks & Traditional Healers
10. ITSHINTSH'IKHONA
Amampondo
11. NOMATSHAWE
Madosini
12. HUNGRY ON ARRIVAL
Outernational Band
13. GENES AND SPIRIT (AHSLEY BEEDLE - DEEP SPACE REMIX)
Moses Taiwa Molelekwa
14. SOUND OF WILD DOG
Bushmen Of The Kalahari
15. UGANGA NGE NGANI
Busi Mhlongo
16. IMAMOHAMANA DRY (THE WAKE UP DRUM)
Olombelo Ricky
17. AMASHIKO
Pops Mohamed & the London Sound Collective
18. HO HO HO
Amampondo & Saafi Brothers
19. IL EST FOU (FREDERIC GALLIANO REMIX)
Smadj
20. UTHANDO LUPHELILE
Madosini (Remix by Greg Hunter)
21. MELANCOLIE
Smadj
22. HEALING BROADWAY
Pops Mohamed & Greg Hunter
23. TURN TABLA
Greg Hunter & Warrick Sony
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Misoso is a KIBUNDU word meaning stories designed to entertain
MISOSO Track Listing
1. HO HO HO (3.30)
Saafi Brothers & Amampondo feat. Mabi Thobejane
2. MAMBAZO SHANA (4.29)
Simply Hot and Naturally African
3. UYEPHI NA? (WHERE HAS HE GONE?) (2.39)
Nthandeni Mvalase
4. WA MPONA (2.39)
Moses Taiwa Molelekwa
5. UBOMBO (REMIX PART 1) (1.57)
Madala Kunene (Instrumental Remix by Smith & Mighty UK)
6. KAMTARIE (4.21)
Fifth Sun
7. MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (ETERNAL BASEMENT REMIX) (3.20)
Juno Reactor
8. NEW DEAL (3.57)
Smadj
9. SECOND WAVE (2.11)
Alien Soap Opera
10. LOOKING BACK (BOB HOLROYD REMIX)
Sanscapes One
11. INDIZA (4.21)
Busi Mhlongo
12. SKELETON (3.56)
Phumeleo
13. WE BABA OMNCANE (4.34)
Busi Mhlongo
14. BALENGU VILLAGE (3.39)
Brice Wassy
15. INNER CITY BLUES 3.57
Lungiswa
16. NALEDI (3.38)
Robert Doc Mthalane
17. LOOKING BACK (4.29)
Bushmen Of The Kalahari
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LOTUS BLOSSOM TRACK LISTING
1. ELEVATOR MUSIC (7.00)
2. DELUXE CLOCK (7.31)
3. HEALING BROADWAY (8.23)
4. FREE LUNCH (7.00)
5. SEKUNJALO (7.00)
6. CHILLI SCAN (7.11)
7. NO MORE GURUS (2.55)
LOTUS BLOSSOM
feat Pops Mohamed, Greg Hunter, Gloria Bosman, Suzan Hendricks
Johannesburg to London via Cairo
Traditional African music has grown in popularity rapidly over the last decade. Unlocking the inspiring and healing qualities of African rhythms and melodies (both ancient and new) from the Mother continent as well as the diaspora, is a job still in its infancy. Yet a greater challenge perhaps, remains not just the locating and preserving of the old songs and chants, but significantly finding ways of informing the hearts, minds and technologies of the 21st century with the spirituality and timeless wisdom of the older musics. African music doesn’t simply belong in a museum or on the shelves of the Smithsonian Institute. It dwells on the streets and in the temples, churches and clubs of the diaspora of which we are all part - whether observers or participants. The MOOD AFRICA© series seeks to advance just such an agenda. Listen to how the uplifting creativity plays out here on LOTUS BLOSSOM.
- Pops Mohamed
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