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Freedom / Soweto Gospel Choir.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 24232
Available
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Language:
- English
- Sotho
- Zulu
- Subjects (All):
- Gospel music.
- Choruses (Mixed voices).
- Folk music--South Africa.
- Folk music.
- Black people--Civil rights.
- South Africa.
- Popular music--South Africa.
- Popular music.
- Black people--Civil rights--South Africa--Songs and music.
- Black people.
- Genre:
- Songs and music.
- Sound recordings.
- Songs.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (46 min., 23 sec.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [Newton, New Jersey] : Shanachie, [2018]
- Language Note:
- Sung principally in Zulu, Sotho, and English.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- 1.4 m/s
- audio file
- CD audio
- Summary:
- Soweto Gospel Choir's heartfelt tribute to international hero Nelson Mandela in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The album features iconic struggle songs associated with the liberation movement in South Africa, including compositions by Miriam Makeba, Harry Belafonte, Letta Mbulu, and Mbogeni Ngema, creator of the hit musical Sarna.
- Contents:
- Medley. Sabashiya abazali ; Sabela ; Thula mtanami (3:20)
- Umandela uthi ayihlome ihlasele (3:44)
- Mama ndiyalila (3:22)
- Freedom songs medley. Jikijela ; Rolihlahla Mandela (6:13)
- Ndikhokhele o Yehova (3:37)
- Hallelujah (5:27)
- Ibambeni webafana (3:06)
- Spiritual medley. Jesus on the mainline ; This joy that I have ; When the saints go marching in ; Kuzohlatshelelwa (3:55)
- Asimbonanga ; Biko (3:52)
- Bawo thixo somandla (2:43)
- Umbombela (4:18)
- Hamba nathi : thixo somandla (2:46).
- Participant:
- Soweto Gospel Choir ; Diniloxolo Ndlakuse, producer, musical director, keyboards.
- Notes:
- Soweto Gospel Choir's tribute to Nelson Mandela in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth.
- Title from disc label.
- Recorded at Chapel Lane Studios, Adelaide, Australia ; Downtown Music Hub ; Openroom, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Program notes by Cyril Ramaphosa in English printed on inside sleeve of container.
- OCLC:
- 1048633554
- Publisher Number:
- 016351664723
- 66047 Shanachie (disc label)
- SH 66047 Shanachie (container spine)
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