ANTHOLOGY

CLEGG, JOHNNY

Genre: music4me > world > world

Format: CD Album

Released: Mon 14 Jun 1999

Catalogue Number: 1533302

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Description:
Before Paul Simon amazed the world with Graceland, Johnny Clegg and Juluka were breaking the law in South Africa simply by playing together. While the world lay in shock when Nelson Mandela was imprisioned, Johnny Clegg's politically active lyrics questioned all authority in South Africa. This album takes the lyrical political astuteness of Rage Against the Machine, the beats of Afro Celt Soundsystem, and the lush melodies and harmonies of R.E.M. and creates something wonderful. Early Juluka classics like Universal Men, High Country, Woza Friday, Scatterlings of Africa and Kilimanjaro are deeply moving, and Savuka hits like Great Heart (later covered by Jimmy Buffet), Take My Heart Away, and an astounding live version of Asimbonanga, Clegg's tribute to Mandela, this album will touch anyone with a heart, move anyone with a soul, and inspire anyone with feet to dance with. Clegg's voice, either speaking rhythmic English or more rhythmic Zulu, is beautiful, and his word moreso. Perhaps the only songs missing from here are Too Early For The Sky, Human Rainbow and African Shadow Man, all off his Shadow Man album, which is sorely absent on this collection. But Clegg is an amazing musician and songwriter.

Track Listing:

1.	Universal Men
2.	Impi
3.	High Country
4.	Woza Friday
5.	Scatterlings Of Africa
6.	Bullets For Bafazane
7.	Nans Impi
8.	Kilimanjaro
9.	Orphans Of The Empire
10.	Great Heart
11.	Take My Heart Away
12.	Dela (Remix)
13.	Cruel Crazy Beautiful World
14.	The Crossing
15.	Africa (What Made You So Strong)
16.	Asimbonanga (Live)
17.	Hambile/the Dance (Live)