Name: Urban Zulu
Brand: Busi Mhlongo

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MM117LP

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-06-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Honest Jons

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Busi Mhlongo

Genre GB

African

Label GB

Matsuli

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.

Urban Zulu

Music GB