{"id":40707,"date":"2020-04-08T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/mr-bongo-reissues-the-album-modiehi-by-the-south-african-group-marumo\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:32:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:32:20","slug":"mr-bongo-reissues-the-album-modiehi-by-the-south-african-group-marumo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/mr-bongo-reissues-the-album-modiehi-by-the-south-african-group-marumo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Bongo reissues the album Modiehi by the South African group Marumo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U2WtLS1HbjE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>The English label Mr Bongo re-releases <em>Modiehi<\/em>, an album by the South African group Marumo, released in 1982.<\/h4>\n<p>Released on Spades Record in 1982, <em>Modiehi<\/em> was recorded by legendary South African producer, saxophonist and songwriter West Nkosi, who was a member of the super group Mahlathini &amp; The Mahotella Queens. The South African band, Marumo was made up of John Mothopeng, Munich Sibiya, Simon Falatsi and Marks Mbuthuma.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Modiehi<\/em> brings together a wide range of genres from sotho soul to Mbaqanga, disco-funk, gospel and spacey-synth slow jams. Mr Bongo re-released for the first time this album which they discovered thanks to DJ Okapi on the blog &#8220;Afrosynth&#8221;, which testifies to the vestiges of South Africa&#8217;s past of the 80s and early 90s. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Discover the cover artwork below and order the album <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrbongo.com\/products\/modiehi?_pos=1&amp;_sid=ea9c8100d&amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-39902\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fc29ff40-modiehi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fc29ff40-modiehi.jpg 340w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fc29ff40-modiehi-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fc29ff40-modiehi-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fc29ff40-modiehi-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fc29ff40-modiehi-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English label Mr Bongo re-releases Modiehi, an album by the South African group Marumo, released in 1982. Released on Spades Record in 1982, Modiehi was recorded by legendary South African producer, saxophonist and songwriter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[6390],"location":[7844],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40707"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=40707"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}