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Udondolo

by Urban Village

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Faisal Jewell
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Faisal Jewell Marabi sounds like the Classic South African song, The Lion Sleeps Tonight or Wimoweh Favorite track: Marabi.
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Picbal1967 Fantastic music: spiritual an swinging. And an incredible capacity to inhabit music styles while making us rediscover them. Wow !!! Favorite track: Umuthi.
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masterjakestudios This album traces the history of South Africa, trekking from location to location within Johannesburg, genre to genre, mood to mood in the hopes of picking up a souvenir from each spot and bringing it into this fast-moving, electro-fied, Spotify-era present tense. It all snaps into place when you find out what 'Udondolo' actually means: walking stick. Favorite track: Ubaba.
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Dindi 03:09
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Ubaba 04:37
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Ubusuku 04:12
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Madume 04:21
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Sakhisizwe 03:05
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Marabi 04:20
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Umuthi 04:04
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Inkani 04:25
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Makolo Yanga 05:38
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Empty K-Set 02:24
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Soweto-based new indie voice, Urban Village, shares their first album "Udondolo"(Walking Stick)

Feet in the tradition, head in the future, the four musicians of the band Urban Village (Lerato Lichaba, Simangaliso Dlamini, Tubatsi Mpho Moloi, and Xolani Mtshali) get their inspiration from the rich musical heritage of South African soil. A totally original synthesis of Zulu guitars, indie-folk, maskandi, South African choirs and jazz, all carried along by an undoubtable energy and charisma. They offer a powerful folk - and their songs are steeped in the cultural consciousness of yesteryear, including the famous “ubuntu (common humanity)” and Pan Africanism. It's a first album, recorded at home with the energy of live music and patiently polished in the studio by Frédéric Soulard (Maestro, Limousine, Jeanne Added).
A journey through all the colors of Soweto, a dormitory town designed to better monitor those who were sent there, that has become the laboratory of music where the hopes of an entire people resonate, even today.

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released January 22, 2021

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Urban Village Soweto, South Africa

Urban Village is the alias of four experimental musicians all born & raised in the township of Soweto at the tail end of apartheid: Tubatsi Mpho Moloi, Lerato Lichaba, Xolani Mtshali and Simangaliso Dlamini.

A totally original synthesis of Zulu guitars, indie-folk, maskandi, South African choirs and jazz, all carried along by an undoubtable energy and charisma.
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