Ndikho Xaba and the Natives– S/T [African/American 1971] – New LP

REVOLUTIONARY SPIRITUAL JAZZ FROM EXILE. 2022 repress of the 1971 South African/Bay Area spiritual jazz masterpiece.Ndikho Xaba and the Natives by Ndikho Xaba and the Natives While all sounding exploratory, the first side seems weighted with the gravity of the situations, embracing the tension to explore its sources, and while it pokes and stirs the fire and releases the inner embers, it also seems to pull back, often seems introspective, a meditative and soul-searching inward journey to all that lays within people with rich histories of triumph and turmoil, taking its time to gather the sources like logs in a fire, gathering around the fire together and staring into the flames of one fire built from so many places and sources, while the flipside takes to flight like embers and eagles, blankets of embers, wings spreading, expanding the music and message across the land and across oceans, thematically and musically from Africa to the Americas, from Apartheid to the Civil Rights mo