Tags
Language
Tags
<<
May 2025
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
27 28 29 30 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Attention❗ To save your time, in order to download anything on this site, you must be registered 👉 HERE. If you do not have a registration yet, it is better to do it right away. ✌

( • )( • ) ( ͡⚆ ͜ʖ ͡⚆ ) (‿ˠ‿)
SpicyMags.xyz
  1. Home
  2. Vinyl & HR
  3. VA - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (2025) (Hi-Res)

VA - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (2025) (Hi-Res)

Posted By: Rtax
Date: 15 May 2025 15:52:05
VA - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (2025) (Hi-Res)

VA - Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (2025) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-96kHz - 1.1 GB
1:03:55 | African, World, Blues, Folk | Label: Matsuli Music Limited

Zulu Guitar's Pioneering Tricksters But for this compilation of rescued songs masterfully restored from rare 78 rpm shellacs, few could imagine the diversely beautiful roots of Zulu Guitar Music emerging during the period 1950 – 1965. Story-tellers and master musicians appropriate outlaw personae, re-purpose country and western, Hawaiian and other styles, to stretch and challenge our notion of “the Zulu guitar”. Twenty-five songs (18 on vinyl) plunge us into the depths of the migrant experience. Translations in the liner notes offer us glimpses of pugnacity, melancholy and heartache, all coloured by the paternalism that circumscribed the singers’ apartheid-dominated lives.

The early mbaqanga undertow in many of the songs subverts the wanderlust of Country and Western music into a fugitivity burdened by nostalgia. Something irretrievable has been lost, prompting a blending of ideas and cultures to make sense through thankless acts of musical divination. Inadvertently they have been thrust into the role of the antihero, where outwitting competition for lovers is as important as evading the Black Jacks (apartheid’s municipal cops) and their informants.

Considering the politically repressive period that this music emerges from, we can surmise that the specificity in the storytelling went a long way towards evading censure. But even when words are absent, there is a narrative arc suggested by the musical expression.

With most of the master tapes wilfully destroyed or lost, modern transcription and restoration techniques from the original shellac discs present the original sound most likely more clearly than ever heard before.

Tracklist
1. Almon Memela - Amapoyisa (02:36)
2. Cowboy Superman - Ntombi Kazipheli
3. Mfongozi Guitar Players - Marabi Jazz
4. Casper Shiki - Ngazula (02:04)
5. The Play Singer - Kusile Dale
6. Elliot Gumede - Amasoka
7. The Play Singer - Imitwalo
8. Enoch Mahlobo and Shezi - Wenzani
9. The Blind Man with his Guitar - Isoka Labaleka
10. Nongomo Trio - Guga Mzimba
11. The Play Singer - Nga Fika Ekaya (02:31)
12. Cowboy Superman - I Lele Insizwa
13. Mbaqanga Guitar Trio - Come Again?
14. Cowboy Sweethearts - Sambamba Lomfana
15. Cowboy Superman and Beauty - Kumnandi Kwazulu
16. The Blind Guitar Player - Ungakhulumi
17. Thoko and Almon - MaNdlovu
18. Zachariah and his Guitar - Abafana
19. Mampondo and Sobantu - Themba Lami
20. Baca Boys - Ngiyamqoma
21. Dennis Khanyile - Thembile
22. The Play Singer - U Ngi Cebe E Poisen
23. Mike Khuzwayo and the Playboys - Zibedu
24. The Blind Man and his Guitar - Uncedo Wabantu
25. Almon Memela - Lashona
foobar2000 2.0 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2025-05-15 08:51:54

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Analyzed: Almon Memela / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (1-2)
Baca Boys / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (3)
Casper Shiki / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (4)
Cowboy Superman and Beauty / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (5)
Cowboy Superman / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (6-7)
Cowboy Sweethearts / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (8)
Dennis Khanyile / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (9)
Elliot Gumede / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (10)
Enoch Mahlobo and Shezi / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (11)
Mampondo and Sobantu / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (12)
Mbaqanga Guitar Trio / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (13)
Mfongozi Guitar Players / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (14)
Mike Khuzwayo and the Playboys / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (15)
Nongomo Trio / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (16)
The Blind Guitar Player / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (17)
The Blind Man with his Guitar / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (18-19)
The Play Singer / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (20-23)
Thoko and Almon / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (24)
Zachariah and his Guitar / Zulu Guitar Blues (Cowboys Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950 to 1965) [2025 Remastered] (25)
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

DR Peak RMS Duration Track
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DR13 -1.34 dB -16.65 dB 2:37 01-Amapoyisa (2025 Remaster)
DR11 -1.86 dB -15.43 dB 2:40 25-Lashona (2025 Remaster)
DR13 -0.13 dB -14.02 dB 2:19 20-Ngiyamqoma (2025 Remaster)
DR13 -0.18 dB -13.94 dB 2:05 04-Ngazula (2025 Remaster)
DR12 -0.57 dB -15.47 dB 2:34 15-Kumnandi Kwazulu (2025 Remaster)
DR10 -1.55 dB -15.17 dB 2:38 02-Ntombi Kazipheli (2025 Remaster)
DR12 -0.98 dB -15.39 dB 2:59 12-I Lele Insizwa (2025 Remaster)
DR11 -0.65 dB -13.46 dB 2:48 14-Sambamba Lomfana (2025 Remaster)
DR14 -1.55 dB -19.06 dB 2:31 21-Thembile (2025 Remaster)
DR11 -1.69 dB -14.98 dB 2:16 06-Amasoka (2025 Remaster)
DR12 -1.11 dB -14.69 dB 2:34 08-Wenzani (2025 Remaster)
DR13 -0.45 dB -15.68 dB 2:39 19-Themba Lami (2025 Remaster)
DR11 -1.36 dB -14.22 dB 2:28 13-Come Again? (2025 Remaster)
DR13 -1.30 dB -15.91 dB 2:48 03-Marabi Jazz (2025 Remaster)
DR10 -2.09 dB -14.34 dB 2:31 23-Zibedu (2025 Remaster)
DR10 -3.93 dB -15.74 dB 2:44 10-Guga Mzimba (2025 Remaster)
DR12 -0.18 dB -13.71 dB 2:19 16-Ungakhulumi (2025 Remaster)
DR14 -1.53 dB -17.48 dB 2:20 09-Isoka Labaleka (2025 Remaster)
DR13 -2.32 dB -16.24 dB 2:20 24-Unledo Wabantu (2025 Remaster)
DR12 -0.85 dB -15.25 dB 2:36 05-Kusile Dale (2025 Remaster)
DR11 -0.71 dB -13.86 dB 2:42 07-Imitwalo (2025 Remaster)
DR12 -1.87 dB -16.27 dB 2:32 11-Nga Fika Ekaya (2025 Remaster)
DR8 -3.34 dB -13.98 dB 2:53 22-U Ngi Cebe E Poisen (2025 Remaster)
DR11 -0.61 dB -13.74 dB 2:31 17-MaNdlovu (2025 Remaster)
DR12 -0.41 dB -15.08 dB 2:43 18-Abafana (2025 Remaster)
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Number of tracks: 25
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2559 kbps
Codec: FLAC
================================================================================

UPWARDS