Slik ser originalen ut, fra -81
Du har den altså? UK-pressing? Normalt har jeg ingenting til overs for bonuslåter, men det er noen på denne nyutgivelsen som er hinsides. F. eks "It´s All Right", "Speed It Up", "Black Punk Rockers" og ikke minst "Mercenaries". Pluss et skitstilig hefte med politisk historie i en musikalsk kontekst.
Dessverre ikke Tremor
Har skamløst lånt bilde fra nett, det er av originalen
fra Sør-Afrika
mvh
S-mannen
Kanskje interressant for andre, fra Allmusic
The National Wake were a mixed-race punk band in the township of Soweto in South Africa between 1976, and 1981. The band grew out of the student uprising in Soweto in 1976 through a series of loose jam sessions during the commune explosion of that year. Founded by Jewish immigrant
Ivan Kadey, and the rhythmsection comprised of two Soweto-born brothers, Gary and Punka Khoza, and guitarist Steve Moni, the band played its own mix of punk, reggae, and township-inspired funk. They released one album in 1981, which sold a little more than 700 copies. Due to pressure from the apartheid regime that refused the group permission to play in public, the recording itself was eventually withdrawn. Given the oppression, the band split that year, but their influence had already spread to dozens of emerging bands from Johannesburg. Outside their native country,
The National Wake languished in obscurity until
the documentary film Punk in Africa led to their rediscovery.
Kadey, an architect who emigrated to Los Angeles, reissued the band's lone recording in 2011 in South Africa (the Khoza brothers were deceased by this time), and through the web and social media, let others know there were 20 other tracks left in the can. In 2013, Light in the Attic issued the the album with bonus material.