Word: mambazo
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...anyone who missed Maal, or could do with some blood-warming African music to make up for East Coast weather, World Music bring Ladysmith Black Mambazo back to Sanders for their annual performance on Sunday, Feb. 10th, as well as Kandia Kouyate of Mali to the Somerville Theatre on the 17th...
...More than a decade ago Paul Simon's "Graceland" album introduced Ladysmith Black Mambazo to international popular culture, promoting this a cappella ensemble as a global emissary of isicathamiya and its sonorous hymns of protest and healing. For years apartheid repression haunted this music, with verses mourning loss of ancestral land to European farmers and love eroded by the distance between a Zulu migrant worker and his rural family waiting for him and his wages. Now in South Africa many isicathamiya performers no longer denounce white minority rule. New lyrics portray Africans straddling rural tradition and urban modernity, and dreams...
Apart from this fault, the rest of the musical moves with as much grace and style as can be expected from a small-stage production. With music composed by the South African troupe Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the same group which recorded the album Graceland with Paul Simon, the show alternates between spoken dialogue and a cappella song...
Ladysmith Black Mambazo. SandersTheater, 4 p.m. $20 and $17. For more informationcall...
...deft direction and K. Todd Freeman's luminous acting of the title role, especially a final monologue in which he unsentimentally uncorks the rage that drove a minister's son to terrorism. What makes the show unique is the unearthly beauty of a capella songs by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the group highlighted on Paul Simon's Graceland album. The nine singers become a sort of Greek chorus and attain the dimensions of classical tragedy...