Imvuselelo, by BirdSong Ensemble

Imvuselelo

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	1.	No More 01:55
	2.	Homelessness 07:01
	3.	Tau Ya Afrika 04:21
	4.	Imvuselelo 04:18
	5.	Chicken Dust 04:51
	6.	AmaChokolette 10:04
	7.	Tau Ya Afrika II 04:08

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Composer and trumpeter Mandla Mlangeni is a dynamic and ambitious young force in South African jazz and has gained traction internationally via residencies in Germany and Switzerland and as a member of Shabaka & The Ancestors. As a bandleader, Mlangeni nurtures a palette of shapeshifting projects from the Amandla Freedom Ensemble to the Tune Recreation Committee to showcase his compositions at home and abroad.

The BirdSong Ensemble behind Imvuselelo is a formidable Swiss collective and the recording follows Mlangeni's Berlin-based Bird Song Project LP of 2017. Album artwork was created by South African designer Baba Tjeko and the release marks the 2020 revival of the iconic As-Shams/The Sun South African jazz label. The title track and centrepiece of the album "Imvuselelo" means reawakening and is a 3/4 waltz composed in 2014. Imvuselelo is available in a vinyl edition of 300 copies with an expanded digital release featuring an alternate take of "Tau Ya Afrika."

"BirdSong Ensemble reminds me of early Ornette Coleman. Mandla Mlangeni is mean." - Rashid Vally (founder of As-Shams/The Sun)

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released March 27, 2020

Trumpet - Mandla Mlangeni
Tenor Sax - Max Treutner
Alto Sax - Benedikt Reising
Trombone - Josephine Nagorsnik
Bass - Oz Yehiely
Drums - Felix Wolf

Composed by Mandla Mlangeni
Album Artowork by Baba Tjeko
Recorded in Bern, Switzerland in 2018
Mixed & Mastered by Gavan Eckhart at Soul Fire
Produced for As-Shams by Calum MacNaughton

Cat. No. SRK 897245
℗ 2018 Mandla Mlangeni Music © 2020 As-Shams/The Sun

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Champions of South African Jazz • Independent Record Label Established in Johannesburg in 1974

North America Archive Series Link: as-shams-busy-bodies.bandcamp.com

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