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Jul 7, 2020Consistently exciting, always surprising, and full of soul, it is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable releases of the year to date.
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Jul 6, 2020In short, it’s an album that demonstrates the continuing merit of musical collaboration while also offering a hopeful counterpoint to a world all too often consumed by negativity and strife.
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Jul 6, 2020Here, the component parts of hip-hop, jazz, dub and protest music are pieced together, like the many languages of a diasporic conversation. If the call is for music, Keleketla!’s mutlilingual, effusive response is one worth hearing.
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Q MagazineJul 2, 2020Provides a stirring reminder of how cross-cultural encounters spark new musical forms. [Aug 2020, p.107]
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MojoJul 2, 2020Galvanising, jazzy embrace of call-and-response tradition. [Aug 2020, p.94]
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Jul 2, 2020[Tony] Allen’s drumming propels five of the album’s nine tracks, spattering syncopated accents, quick little snare-drum rolls and hissing cymbals all around the central beat — and constantly striking sparks. ... Coldcut’s presence is ubiquitous; it was the duo that put all the scattered pieces of Keleketla! together. But the thoroughly hybridized music makes clear that in Africa, Coldcut was ready to listen above all.
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Jul 2, 2020Keleketla! is a powerful combination of activism and musical exploration, bonding the sounds of several locations and eras in order to express messages of joy, optimism, and revolution.
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Jul 2, 2020With contributions from over 20 artists, including such musical giants as Tony Allen and Thabang Tabana, Keleketla! is a collaboration of rare magnitude. It is at once a celebration and a call to action.
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