Format Details: Lp /
Release Date: 22 January 2021
Label: No Format
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3700551783373
Genres: World Music Folk
Release Date: 22 January 2021
Label: No Format
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3700551783380
Genres: World Music Folk
Description
Signed to Parisian label Nø Førmat! (home to Oumou Sangaré, Blick Bassy & Mélissa Laveaux), Soweto-based 4 piece band Urban Village present their debut album, 'Udondolo'. Marrying the day-to-day experiences of black South Africans with ebullient elements from traditional Zulu music, Urban Village is the alias of four experimental musicians all born & raised in the township of Soweto at the tail end of apartheid.
Urban Village release music under a name which specifically references the blend of cultures, music & rites which were assimilated into the now 1 million strong population of Soweto, when black South Africans from multiple provinces were brought to the area during the establishment of apartheid, under strict segregation from Johannesburg's white suburbs.
Born for the most part in the last years of apartheid, whilst growing up the band plunged happily into house and dance music that turned the page of a heavy past. Guitarist Lerato came across older Zulu musicians and their style of maskandi playing. Lerato has since mixed styles from homelands and rural areas, sharpened in club jam sessions (where he went on to meet Tubatsi and form Urban Village) during which spoken word, hip-hop and jazz rub shoulders freely.
'Udondolo' - partially recorded at legendary Downtown Studios in the heart of Johannesburg and at Figure of 8 studios in the leafy suburbs of Randburg, - is a journey through all the colours of Soweto. This is where it draws its consistency, strength & identity. That of Soweto itself - a dormitory town designed to monitor those who were sent there, it has become a laboratory of music where the hopes of an entire people resonate, even today.
Description
Signed to Parisian label Nø Førmat! (home to Oumou Sangaré, Blick Bassy & Mélissa Laveaux), Soweto-based 4 piece band Urban Village present their debut album, 'Udondolo'. Marrying the day-to-day experiences of black South Africans with ebullient elements from traditional Zulu music, Urban Village is the alias of four experimental musicians all born & raised in the township of Soweto at the tail end of apartheid.
Urban Village release music under a name which specifically references the blend of cultures, music & rites which were assimilated into the now 1 million strong population of Soweto, when black South Africans from multiple provinces were brought to the area during the establishment of apartheid, under strict segregation from Johannesburg's white suburbs.
Born for the most part in the last years of apartheid, whilst growing up the band plunged happily into house and dance music that turned the page of a heavy past. Guitarist Lerato came across older Zulu musicians and their style of maskandi playing. Lerato has since mixed styles from homelands and rural areas, sharpened in club jam sessions (where he went on to meet Tubatsi and form Urban Village) during which spoken word, hip-hop and jazz rub shoulders freely.
'Udondolo' - partially recorded at legendary Downtown Studios in the heart of Johannesburg and at Figure of 8 studios in the leafy suburbs of Randburg, - is a journey through all the colours of Soweto. This is where it draws its consistency, strength & identity. That of Soweto itself - a dormitory town designed to monitor those who were sent there, it has become a laboratory of music where the hopes of an entire people resonate, even today.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani
Oumou Sangare
Natascha Rogers
Piers Faccini
Nicolas Repac
Blick Bassy
Ballaka Sissoko-Vincent Segal
Ballaka Sissoko-Vincent Segal
St Agnes Fountain
Will & James Ragar
Subway to Sally
Kuljit Bhamra & Becky Price
Seamus Begley
Janice Burns & Jon Doran
Kate Wolf
Kate Wolf
