{"id":3194,"date":"2012-10-02T14:08:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T19:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2012-10-20T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T16:01:13","slug":"hugh-masekelahedzoleh-soundz-languta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3194","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Masekela\/Hedzoleh Soundz – Languta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope all is well on your end of the intertubes connection.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t all that long ago, during one of my lucky summer digs that I turned up the 45 that you see before you today.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been a big fan of Hugh Masekela<\/strong> since I was a kid (Grazing In the Grass is one of my all time favorite records).<\/p>\n

His story – and the many others that make up the South African musical diaspora of the 1960s – is fascinating, as is the music he made.<\/p>\n

I had long heard about his collaboration with the African group Hedzoleh Soundz,<\/strong> but was never lucky enough to turn up a copy of the LP.<\/p>\n

That said, I was very happy to find this 45.<\/p>\n

Masekela \u2013 already a popular artist \u2013 returned to Africa in the early 70s with his (then) wife Miriam Makeba<\/strong>. It was there that he met the mighty Fela Kuti<\/strong>, as well as the Ghanian band Hedzoleh Soundz.<\/p>\n

Hedzoleh mixed the traditional sounds of Ghana with western jazz and rock.<\/p>\n

Masekela recorded the LP \u201cHugh Masekela Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz\u2019 in 1973 in Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something poetic about the process of Masekela leaving his homeland and mixing its sounds with those of western jazz and pop, only to return to Africa and re-mix his own fusion with that of Hedzoleh Soundz.<\/p>\n

\u2018Languta\u2019 the opening track of the LP (though the 45 edit is about a minute shorter than the album track) is a perfect example of Masekala\u2019s jazz\/Afrobeat fusion, with his echoplexed trumpet wailing over the Hedzoleh Soundz propulsive rhythms.<\/p>\n

Masekela would continue to tour and record with members of Hedzoleh Soundz on several albums through the late 70s.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fantastic piece of music, and I hope you dig it.<\/p>\n

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Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hugh Masekela (top) and Hedzoleh Soundz (bottom) Listen\/Download Hugh Masekela\/Hedzoleh Soundz – Languta Greetings all I hope all is well on your end of the intertubes connection. It wasn\u2019t all that long ago, during one of my lucky summer digs that I turned up the 45 that you see before you today. I\u2019ve been a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[91,78,11,17,14,49],"tags":[179,163,166,164],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african","category-afro-funk","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-jazz-funk","tag-afro-funk","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-Pw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}