Hugh Masekela - Live in Lesotho '1981

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Slickest Afro-jazz-funk swerve from legendary South African cornet player and
anti-apartheid figure Hugh Masakela, recorded at the Maseru Holiday Inn before a
small audience during days surrounding his defiant 1981 performance in Lesotho
while banned from performing just over the border in SA proper.

Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makebas double-bill Lesotho concert was a daring,
defiant and ultimately dazzling act. For the first time since its limited
release in South Africa in 1981, Matsuli Music is proud to re-issue this gem of
a pan-African, funk-infused, extended audio double album with unpublished
photographs and new liner notes from Atiyyah Khan. The Christmas-weekend
stadium-filled concert deeply challenged and disturbed South Africas apartheid
regime. Makeba and Masekela were banned from entering South Africa, yet tens of
thousands of their South African fans invaded Lesotho to party with their
musical heroes. Live in Lesotho documents an inspired Hugh Masekela and his
stellar New York band putting a new spin on crowd favourites. Another South
African jazz gem from Matsuli Musics growing catalogue of essential high-quality
reissues. For an artist as prolific and famous as Hugh Masekela, it is a real
surprise that this particular recording took so long to resurface.

01. Hugh Masekela - Ashiko (9:25)
02. Hugh Masekela - Ha Le Se Le Li Khanna (6:39)
03. Hugh Masekela - Stimela (5:26)
04. Hugh Masekela - Part of a Whole (8:56)
05. Hugh Masekela - Sister Fania (12:52)
06. Hugh Masekela - The Healing Song (10:52)

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