Africano
Strand SLS 1024
1961
From a February 27, 1961 Strand Billboard ad: Horst Wende conducts the orchestra in a breath-taking presentation of African music. Tremendous stereo.
What is breath-taking about this budget set is that there was almost no attempt made by the arranger to create music that reflects "Africa" in any way... Of course... Strand employees or the people manufacturing the disk may have mistakingly applied the Africana disk labels to another project.
From the back cover: Throughout this album many of the basic folk chants and melodies are combined with the continental flavor. This gives the album a diversified listening appeal. As you listen, you can visualize the vast, beautiful country, shrouded in an aura of mystery. You can picture the influence that this Africa continent, far removed in its culture, from the rest of the world, has in its music, on the peoples of this outside world.
Zambesi
Kwela-Dance
Warm Patat
Sarie Marais
Skokiaan
Boetjie Na Kammaland
Alibama
Sugarbush
Africano
Hamba Kahle
Fanagalo
Princess Waltz
Die Graskop Polka
Kanimambo
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