{"title":"Spirits Rejoice","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"african-spaces","title":"African Spaces","description":"\u003cp\u003eA defining musical statement in South Africa’s jazz canon – pinpointing the moment of social and musical ferment in which the country’s terms of engagement with jazz were irreversibly changed.\u003cbr\u003eForged when township kids were facing down bullets this is an electric mulberry funk – slick, intense and complex.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a distance of more than forty years, the radicalism and significance of African Spaces can be seen more clearly. Ambitious, uncompromising, and resolutely progressive, it represents a unique high-water mark in South Africa’s long musical engagement with the newest developments in American jazz – a response to the cosmic call of Return To Forever, and an answer to Miles’ On the Corner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpirits Rejoice drew together some of South Africa’s most abundantly talented and forward-thinking jazz players and created a complex and challenging jazz fusion that shifted the terms of South Africa’s engagement with jazz towards new music being made by pioneers such as Chick Corea, Weather Report, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfrican Spaces, their debut recording, is one of the key documents in the South African jazz canon. Emerging in the aftermath of the 1976 Soweto uprising, and taking its place alongside the crucial mid-1970s music of Malombo, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Batsumi, it is a defining but unsung musical statement of its era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemastered audio with new photographs and additional liner notes by Francis Gooding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matsuli","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50417148461387,"sku":"1120234","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c7816c97-b4ed-4c1f-8b47-f31817a2030f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726718946"},{"product_id":"spirits-rejoice","title":"Spirits Rejoice!","description":"\u003cp\u003e*Remastered from tape - includes booklet with detailed liner notes.**\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReleased in 1978- now re-issued for the first time, the 2nd album from South African jazz\/fusion power house, Spirits Rejoice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frederiksberg Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50433576436043,"sku":"2207170","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Spirits_Rejoice_ed83345a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726880978"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/spirits-rejoice.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}