Black Disco - Discovery 1975-1976 (2023)
Artist: Black Disco
Title: Discovery 1975-1976
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: As-Shams/The Sun
Genre: African, Fusion
Quality: 16-44100 FLAC
Total Time: 00:38:28
Total Size: 234 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
With a Yamaha organ and a dream, Pops Mohamed started his musical journey in the mid-1970s as the bandleader and composer of Black Disco, creating a hip melange of chill-out jazz with futuristic drum machine sounds and spiritual overtones. His cosmic organ transmissions were accompanied by two of the most sought-after session players on the South African scene, the sax and flute wizard Basil Coetzee, who had risen to fame in 1974 as one of the soloists on the hit “Mannenberg,” and Sipho Gumede, the young bass prodigy who was already rubbing shoulders with the old guard at the outset of his career. Backed at first with polyphonic beats from Mohamed’s electric organ and later taking on a drummer, Black Disco created a signature sound and a trilogy of innovative albums in a burst of studio creativity between 1975 and 1976.Title: Discovery 1975-1976
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: As-Shams/The Sun
Genre: African, Fusion
Quality: 16-44100 FLAC
Total Time: 00:38:28
Total Size: 234 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Distilling the group’s recorded output into a single commemorative document, Discovery 1975-1976 compiles cuts from the lauded Night Express album alongside rare gems from the group’s long-out-of-print first and third albums. The newly remastered selection features previously unissued single versions of the mighty “Night Express” itself, a funk juggernaut with piercing flute whistles and rapturous sax cries as well as “Dawn” from the album Black Disco 3, a trippy, flute-driven awakening of soft light and gentle colours.
ORGAN AND DRUM MACHINE – Pops Mohamed
TENOR SAX AND FLUTE – Basil Coetzee
BASS – Sipho Gumede / Peter Odendaal
DRUMS – Peter Morake / Monty Weber
Tracklist:
1-1. Black Disco - Spiritual Feel (Riding the Blue) (05:46)
1-2. Black Disco - Pops Blue (03:06)
1-3. Black Disco - Night Express (Radio Version) (05:21)
1-4. Black Disco - Kids in the Dark (05:00)
1-5. Black Disco - Dawn (Radio Version) (04:46)
1-6. Black Disco - I'm Organized (06:22)
1-7. Black Disco - Yasmeen's Blues (04:52)
1-8. Black Disco - Dark Clouds Part 1 (03:15)