{"id":41732,"date":"2019-05-20T13:24:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/bbe-reissues-kabasas-cult-album-african-sunset\/"},"modified":"2020-10-20T12:51:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T10:51:44","slug":"bbe-reissues-kabasas-cult-album-african-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/bbe-reissues-kabasas-cult-album-african-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"BBE reissues Kabasa&#8217;s cult album, African Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25266 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/African-Sunset-Kabasa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/African-Sunset-Kabasa.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/African-Sunset-Kabasa-759x531.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/African-Sunset-Kabasa-661x463.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/African-Sunset-Kabasa-465x326.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/African-Sunset-Kabasa-375x263.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Originally released in 1982 on ephemeral label Lyncell, the South-African band&#8217;s third and last album is finally republished by BBE.<\/h5>\n<p>Kabasa was founded in Soweto by singer and bass player\u00a0Tata \u201cTNT\u201d Sibeko as well as by guitar player\u00a0Robert \u201cDoc\u201d Mthalane, also known as the South African Jimi Hendrix and percussionist Oupa Segway, later replaced by\u00a0Mabote \u201cKelly\u201d Petlane. Before Kabasa,\u00a0Mthalane and Segwai had written a page of music History by being the first black band to appear on South African TV, with their former formation Harari.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uo0Fmq6txhY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Among\u00a0Kabasa&#8217;s three notable albums, hyperactive British music label BBE chose to republish\u00a0<em>African Sunset,\u00a0<\/em>a cult album that was being resold for a fortune. A psychedelic and spontaneous rock atmosphere emanates from the eight tracks of the album, that also draw from disco and funk. While being discreet enough not to be bothered by censorship, the trio tackles contemporary South African political and social problems through their lyrics. Although it was an economic failure at the time it was released, the album is now considered a one of the band&#8217;s masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p><em>African Sunset<\/em>, out on May 24th. Pre-order it on <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/kabasa.bandcamp.com\/album\/african-sunset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h5>Read Next :\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/guts-inner-journey-of-a-modest-and-funky-beat-digger\/\">Guts, inner journey of a modest and funky beat-digger<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25259\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Kabasa-African-Sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Kabasa-African-Sunset.jpg 571w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Kabasa-African-Sunset-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Kabasa-African-Sunset-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally released in 1982 on ephemeral label Lyncell, the South-African band&#8217;s third and last album is finally republished by BBE. Kabasa was founded in Soweto by singer and bass player\u00a0Tata \u201cTNT\u201d Sibeko as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":25266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4087,4095,25852],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41732"}],"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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41732"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41732"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}