Foster Manganyi - Ndzi Teke Riendzo

Foster Manganyi is a pastor living outside Johannesburg. His sublime music
shares with our compilation Shangaan Electro (HJRCD/LP52), a startling
palette of sampled, synthesized sounds — the signature whistle and marimba, no
bass, a little wonky high-life — and rough, fast, skittering drum patterns.

Yet these are gospel songs, intensely sincere, brimming with aching, plaintive,
mournful spirituality, without a trace of R&B, mangled or not; and however
fractured, multi-faceted and fresh the music comes across, the surging lines and
harmonies of the support singers are unmistakably rooted in the traditional vocal
music of South Africa.

This is the reissue of a hit cassette from 2008.

Tracklisting:

Ndzi Teke Riendzo (I'm Taking A Journey) / Amen-Amen / Tintsumi (The Angels)
/ Misava Ya Fova (The World Is Dying) / Hi Tirhela Tilo (Working For The Lord) /
Moya Wanga (My Spirit) / Fambani / Zion / Ndzi To Tivisela (I Will Keep On
Praying) / Vanhu Va Lova (People Are Dying)

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