- LP
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Spirits Rejoice
Spirits Rejoice!
Frederiksberg Records
- Cat No: FRB 016
- updated:2025-12-06
南アフリカのリズムや感覚の独自性を保ちながらスピリチュアル・ジャズ、ファンク、ソウル、フュージョン、アフロキューバンなどを縦横無尽に横断した、混交とバランス感覚の魅惑の1978年アパルトヘイト期南アフリカ産ジャズ・ファンク名品の2025年再発盤。
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*Remastered from tape - includes booklet with detailed liner notes.**
Released in 1978- now re-issued for the first time, the 2nd album from South African jazz/fusion power house, Spirits Rejoice.
The 1970s is regarded as a period of experimentation, boundary-breaking and hybridization in modern music and this spirit certainly informed the mushrooming of ideas that occurred in South African jazz during this time. In the shadow of more commercial township jive and soul, South African jazz evolved on the fringe, nurtured by passionate and enterprising independent producers who courted the interest of the mainstream with enchanting concoctions of jazz with folk, rock, soul and funk.
With a line-up hailing from far flung regions of South Africa, the mercurial sound of Spirits Rejoice and its willingness to weave a patchwork of different influences into its recordings is not hard to account for. More difficult to reconcile is that the band didn’t manage to level up to the status enjoyed by its peers in larger music markets abroad. Nevertheless, Spirits Rejoice has maintained its revered status in the collective memory of South African jazz for over four decades and their recorded artifacts return in the 2020s with the group’s vitality and energy undiminished.
Released in 1978- now re-issued for the first time, the 2nd album from South African jazz/fusion power house, Spirits Rejoice.
The 1970s is regarded as a period of experimentation, boundary-breaking and hybridization in modern music and this spirit certainly informed the mushrooming of ideas that occurred in South African jazz during this time. In the shadow of more commercial township jive and soul, South African jazz evolved on the fringe, nurtured by passionate and enterprising independent producers who courted the interest of the mainstream with enchanting concoctions of jazz with folk, rock, soul and funk.
With a line-up hailing from far flung regions of South Africa, the mercurial sound of Spirits Rejoice and its willingness to weave a patchwork of different influences into its recordings is not hard to account for. More difficult to reconcile is that the band didn’t manage to level up to the status enjoyed by its peers in larger music markets abroad. Nevertheless, Spirits Rejoice has maintained its revered status in the collective memory of South African jazz for over four decades and their recorded artifacts return in the 2020s with the group’s vitality and energy undiminished.
Chick Corea『Return to Forever』とMiles Davis『On the Corner』への南アフリカからの回答とも言われた、南アの各地から集まったメンバーによって構成された今なおリスペクトを集め続けるグループSpirits Rejoiceの名作1stアルバム『African Spaces』に続き1978年録音の傑作2ndも初の再発。ハイブリッド化した時代の変幻自在な南ア・ジャズ・サウンドの活力。ビッグバンド的な迫力と熱量。オリジナルテープからリマスター。詳細なライナーノーツを収めたブックレットが付属。
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