Urban Zulu [no digital], by Busi Mhlongo

Urban Zulu [no digital]

by Busi Mhlongo

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Ibn Salaam. Classic South African album. Amazing. Favorite track: We Baba Omncane.

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	1.	Yehlisan'umoya Ma-Africa 05:23
	2.	Yapheli'mali Yami 06:23
	3.	We Baba Omncane 05:38
	4.	Yise Wabant'a Bami 04:11
	5.	Uganga Nge Ngane 05:45
	6.	Ngadlalwa Yindoda 04:44
	7.	Zithin'Izizwe 06:51
	8.	Ozamu 02:10

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Urban Zulu changed South Africa’s music forever, rewiring Zulu migrant roots music for the 21st Century. Busi Mhlongo’s powerful voice and challenging lyrics soar over driving bass lines and virtuoso guitars of an all-star South African maskanda line-up, backed by a multi-national cast including Lokua Kanza, Brice Wassy, Jacques Djeyim and Will Mowatt.

With this album Busi Mhlongo subverted and then claimed Maskanda music’s previously patriarchal space, voicing a new social blues narrative. Her songs cut to the essence of simple joys, unrequited love, abuse in the name of love, and month-end blues.

Topping charts in Europe and South Africa, Urban Zulu struck critical and commercial success."We Baba Omncane" reached a global audience as the sound track for an Adidas campaign, and the re-mix became a smash hit for Black Coffee.

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released June 22, 2020

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