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Spirits Rejoice!

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Spirits Rejoice!
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First ever reissue of this excellent self-titled South African jazz album by Spirits Rejoice.

Remastered from tape, includes booklet.

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1.	Emakhaya 06:20	buy track
2.	Woza Uzo Kudanisa Nathi 04:27	buy track
3.	Music Is Our Purpose 05:07	buy track
4.	Spirits 06:04	buy track
5.	Happy and In Love 03:32	buy track
6.	Confusions 04:57	buy track
7.	Why All This Time 05:04	buy track
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about

The 1970s is regarded as a period of experimentation, boundary-breaking and hybridization in modern music and this spirit certainly informed the mushrooming of ideas that occurred in South African jazz during this time. In the shadow of more commercial township jive and soul, South African jazz evolved on the fringe, nurtured by passionate and enterprising independent producers who courted the interest of the mainstream with enchanting concoctions of jazz with folk, rock, soul and funk.

With a lineup hailing from far flung regions of South Africa, the mercurial sound of Spirits Rejoice and its willingness to weave a patchwork of different influences into its recordings is not hard to account for. More difficult to reconcile is that the band didn’t manage to level up to the status enjoyed by its peers in larger music markets abroad. Nevertheless, Spirits Rejoice has maintained its revered status in the collective memory of South African jazz for over four decades and their recorded artifacts return in the 2020s with the group’s vitality and energy undiminished.

credits

released February 13, 2023

Alto Saxophone, Flute, Lead Vocals – Robbie Jansen
Backing Vocals – Joy (tracks: B1, B4)
Bass Guitar – Sipho Gumede
Design – Space & Design
Design – Charles Coetzee
Drums, Bell Tree, Vibraslap, Finger Cymbals – Gilbert Matthews
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Paul Petersen
Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Strings, Piano, Synthesizer [ARP] – Mervyn Africa
Management – Linda Bernhardt, Papa Bernhardt
Percussion – George Tyefumani (tracks: A2)
Photography By – Andre Loubser
Producer, Engineer – Greg Cutler
Producer, Liner Notes – Spirits Rejoice
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Duke Makasi
Trumpet [1st] – George Tyefumani
Trumpet [2nd] – Thabo Mashishi
Vocals – George Tyefumani (tracks: A1)

Reissue Credits:

Liner notes by Calum MacNaughton (Sharp-Flat Records)
Remastering by Greg Reierson
Artwork Restoration and Design by Javi Bayo

Under license from As-Shams Archive

Produced for reissue by Andreas Vingaard

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Frederiksberg Records New York

Frederiksberg Records was founded in New York in 2013 by Danish video journalist and music lover Andreas Vingaard.
The idea for the label emerged when Andreas befriended renowned Jazz saxophonist, Carsten Meinert. Committed to telling the story of Meinert’s music the right way, Andreas resolved to take full ownership of the To You re-release (2015). ... more

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