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Ndikho Xaba and the Natives

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    2022 repress of the 1971 South African/Bay Area spiritual jazz masterpiece.

    Pressed on heavy 160gm vinyl at Smashed Plastic in Chicago, including booklet with rare photographs and concert bills, personal recollections from Plunky Branch, and extensive liner notes by Francis Golding and the great Thulani Davis.

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Shwabada 12:29
2.
Freedom 02:40
3.
Flight 02:53
4.
Nomusa 08:46
5.
Makhosi 02:56

about

REVOLUTIONARY SPIRITUAL JAZZ FROM EXILE

Ndikho Xaba left South Africa in 1964, an exile from his homeland who eventually found his place in San Francisco’s vibrant spiritual jazz scene of the late 60s. A songwriter, bandleader, pianist, and inventor of percussion and woodwind instruments, Xaba played alongside contemporaries like Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, and Sun Ra. But it was on the single album he recorded in the US, self-released in an edition of 100 copies in 1971, that Xaba realized his unique vision.

Backed by a band that included Plunky Branch and Lon Moshe (Oneness of Juju and Black Fire label), Xaba bridged the Black Atlantic, connecting the music of Africa with the most brilliant lights of the Diaspora, and drawing a line between the Black Power movement of the US and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Across five songs, Xaba and the band move through spiritual invocations, wrenching soul, and dizzying layers of rhythm knocked out on homemade instruments. The album is a critical political and historical document, and one of our favorite spiritual jazz albums of all time.

Licensed from Nomusa Xaba, Ndikho's partner, a poet, storyteller, album-cover artist, and namesake of the stunning track immortalizing her name. This is a re-issue of the remastered 2015 release by Matsuli Music, pressed on 160gm vinyl, including booklet with rare photographs and concert bills, personal recollections from Plunky Branch, and extensive liner notes by Francis Golding and the great Thulani Davis, who was a part of Xaba's musical community.

Available from Mississippi Records in North America and Matsuli Music in the rest of the world.

credits

released June 10, 2022

Ndikho Xaba - Piano, percussion, bullhorn, seaweed horn
Plunky - tenor, soprano sax, flute, percussion
Lon Moshe (Ron) - vibes, percussion
Duru (Baba) - congas, percussion
Shabalala (Kent) - bass
Kieta (Kieth) - drums

Arranged by
NDIKHO
Produced by
THE NATIVES
Re-recorded / Edited by
AUSTIN MCCOY
Photography: PHILLIP PRICE/PLUNKY
Art Conception: NOMUSA XABA
Album Design: EDDIE HORAN

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