{"product_id":"kabuzela","title":"Kabuzela","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘The great South African tenorist Mike Makhamalele was a graduate of the key early-seventies group The Drive (alongside Bheki Mseleku and Kaya Mahlangu); and a mainstay of the scene centred on the Pelican nightclub in Soweto. From 1975, he began to record under his own name, developing a sophisticated fusion sound in a musical lane which few of his contemporaries were travelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlways attuned to other global fashions in Black dance and pop music, under numerous studio aliases he cut 45rpm covers of Fela’s Shakara and the Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight; and in 1979 he entered the Gallo studios with producer Peter Ceronio to respond to the ascendant sound of disco. Named after a township dance craze, Kabuzela was the result: four extended tracks of bouncing, upful disco jazz. Perfectly calibrated for dancing, heavy on the bass and drums, the album is set off by a gleaming centre piece, Disco Freaks — a joyous paean to the weekend and true lost gem of global disco, perfect for the most discerning dancefloors.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Outernational Sounds","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50490339492171,"sku":"2002709","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Kabuzela_14b9aa23_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727658902","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/kabuzela","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}