Title:
Afrocentric
Artist:
Jimmy Dludlu
Producer:
Jimmy
Dludlu
Studio:
Label:
Universal
I think this is really going to do well. Jimmy has stuck to his guns with the smooth shit and really produced a corker. Possibly the best of the best of henchmen in pianist Mark Fransman, taking things just that bit outside the conservative to really lend cred to the often diluted genre that is smooth jazz. Loads of zaba scoobie scoo doobie - tight percussion laid down in the bass pocket with Frank Paco, Fana Zulu and Lucas Khumalo punctuated by those horn stabs courtesy of messrs. Moreira and - cool break - back into poppy guitar lead melody. I particularly like the opening track and then also track 3 'River of Lost Dream' a tribute to Moses Molelekwa with dialogue by Duma Ndlovu and featuring Hugh Masekela. And just when things are going all middle of the road you get shifted up a gear, drawn in by a bit of double bass, samba-ed a-la-Santana and brought down low into the groove. Not too shabby then.
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Snowflake Zen Arcade
The Moon is a Spoon Sunways
Memoirs of a Clone Watkin Tudor Jones Jnr.
Conference Niklas Zimmer
Mondmusiek Breyten Breytenbach
Clear Dreamshop
IT Various
Steady On Mood Phase 5ive
Delenta Delenta
In The Meantime Watershed
Faith in Love Coleske
Torn & Tattered Henry Ate
Butterfly Peepl Qzoo
Grannysmith Grannysmith
Myrtleville APE
Gathering Marcus Wyatt
Moment of Truth Africa O'Ye
Never Ever Ever.. Wonderboom
6 Faces of Dr Kwela Kwela Tebza
A Life Less Strange Semisane
Kwaai - Ragga Earthquake
Seed Tananas
Clear Lesley Rae Dowling
Matabele Ants Tony Cox
Mulp Plum
63 Tree
Ohm Ohm
Addictive Personalities The Original Evergreen
Jan Skopgraaf Piet Botha
The Urgency of Now Fruit Fly Navigators
Jou Medemens is Dood The Buckfever Underground
Tranquillity Gloria Bosman
Land of no Cadellacs Famous Curtain Trick
hosted by
Frank
Opperman & Prime Time Addiction
Serial Boyfriend
Interzone
The Man
from Interzone
Niklas
Zimmer & Brydon Bolton
Not for
Sale
Springbok Nude Girls
Surpass
the Powers
Nibs van der Spuy
Lines on
my Face
Sugardrive
When I
died I was Elvis
Kill
me Kate Zero
Sathima
Bea Benjamin
Cape Town
Love
Tea 'n Tequila
Various
Artists
Tony Cox
Looking
for Zim
Wessel
van Rensburg
Song for
E
Zim Ngqawana Zimology
Boo
Munki Punk
Karma
One day
Soon
Durban
Noise Works
..And Scraps
Sunways
No more
Heavy
Black Diamond
Me and my Friends
The
LED
2am
Acoustic Kitchen
Acoustic Kitchen
Citrus
Freedom
Niklas
Zimmer
The Magic Spaces
Dorp
Danger Gevaar Ngozi
Sons
Of Trout
Ticks on George
Plum
Jump Back
Frank
Mallows & Brydon Bolton
Adamastor
Matthew
vd Want & Chris Letcher
Low Riding
Virtual
Jazz Reality
VJR
Moses
Taiwa Molelekwa
Genes and Spirits
Egyptian
Nursery
New Anthem
Naked
Naked
Colorfields
Incidents
The
Original Evergreen
Burn the Evidence
Jimmy
Dludlu
Echoes from the Past
Koos
Kombuis
Madiba Bay
Koos
Kombuis
Blameer Dit Op Apartheid
Paul
Hanmer
Trains to Taung
Wonderboom
Is It?
Valiant
Swart
Dorpstraat Revisited
Fetish
Fetish
Vusi
Mahlasela
Silang Mabele
Dorp
Five Steps Off The Pacemaker
Landscape
Prayers
Bush Telegraph
Juice
Lusting
One
with
Brendan Jury
from Ohm on
the whole mutation thing.
One with
Matthew van der
Want
and Chris Letcher
on
Low Riding.
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