On March 13, 2020, “Impulse!” label released “We Are Sent Here by History”, the second Shabaka and the Ancestors studio album. It was recorded in 2019, at “Milestone Studio” in Cape Town, South Africa, “Sumo Sounds Studio” in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was produced by Dilip Harris and Shabaka Hutchings.
Personnel:
Shabaka Hutchings – tenor saxophone, clarinet
Mithunzi Myubu – alto saxophone
Mandla Miangeni – trumpet
Siyabonga Mthembu – vocals
Thandi Ntyuli – piano
Nduduzo Makhathini – electric piano
Ariel Zamonsky – double bass
Tumi Mogorosi – drums
Gontse Makhene – percussion
Murray Anderson – recording
Peter Auret – recording
Jethro Harris – recording assistant
Tshepo Mothwa – recording assistant
Dilip Harris – mixing
Guy Davis – mastering
Daniela Yohannes – illustration
Jacob Lerman – CD design
Track listing:
All lyrics by Siyabonga Mthembu, all music by Shabaka Hutchings.
On December 1, 2023, “Real World” label released “I/O”, the tenth Peter Gabriel studio album. It was recorded April 1995 – December 2022, at “Rexall Place” in Edmonton, “Real World” in Wiltshire, “British Grove” and “Copper House” in London, “High Seas” in Johannesburg, “Alfvénsalen” in Uppsala, “Fonoprint” in Bologna, and was produced by Peter Gabriel, Richard Russell and Brian Eno.
Personnel:
Peter Gabriel – lead, treated and backing vocals, piano, keyboards, synths, programming, percussion, manipulated charango, glass harp, orchestral arrangements, choir arrangements, design concept
David Rhodes – guitars, acoustic and 12 string guitars, backing vocals
In July 1988, “Columbia” label released “Just Between Us”, the 49th Ray Charles album. It was recorded in 1988, at “RPM Studios” in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was produced by Ray Charles and Quincy Jones.
Personnel:
Ray Charles – vocal, piano
B.B. King – guitar
Kenny Carr – guitar
Gladys Knight – vocals
Lou Rawls – vocals
Track listing:
Nothing Like a Hundred Miles – James Taylor
I Wish I’d Never Loved You at All – K. Morrison Phelps, R. Hice
Too Hard to Love You – Jim Johnson
Now I Don’t Believe That Anymore – David A. Morgan
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Stranger in My Hometown – Percy Mayfield
Over the Top – Tony Colton, Keith Christopher
I’d Walk a Little More for You – Ken Hirsch, Doc Pomus
If That’s What’cha Want – Dave Loggins
Save the Bones for Henry Jones – Danny Barker, Vernon Lee