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Spirits Rejoice
Spirits Rejoice!

Spirits Rejoice!

Catno

FRB 016 none

Formats

1x Vinyl LP Album Reissue Remastered

Country

US

Release date

Apr 6, 2024

Spirits Rejoice! by Spirits Rejoice on Jo'Burg Music reissued by Frederiksberg Records.

Released in 1978- now re-issued for the first time, the 2nd album from South African jazz/fusion power house, Spirits Rejoice.

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 line-up 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.

Available Tomorrow

Jun 26, 2024

Media: Mi
Sleeve: M

$44.36*

*Taxes excluded, shipping price excluded

FRB 016 - US - 2024

A1

Emakhaya

6:21

A2

Woza Uzo Kudanisa Nathi

4:27

A3

Music Is Our Purpose

5:07

A4

Spirits

6:04

B1

Happy And In Love

3:32

B2

Confusions

4:57

B3

Why All This Time

5:04

B4

Papa's Funk

6:39

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