Keleketla!
A collaboration with the Johannesburg collective Keleketla! Library, with more than twenty contributors including Tony Allen.
Coldcut, 2020
- Released
- 3 July 2020
- Studio
- Trackside Creative Studios, Soweto; Denmark Street Studios and Assault and Battery Studios, London
- Label
- Ahead of Our Time
Keleketla! is a self-titled album by a British and South African project that joined Coldcut with Rangoato Hlasane and Malose Malahlela, founders of the Keleketla! Library in Johannesburg. The title means response in the Sepedi language. It came out on 3 July 2020 on Coldcut's Ahead of Our Time label, and recording sessions took place in Soweto and in London.
Contributors included the drummer Tony Allen, the saxophonists Shabaka Hutchings and Tamar Osborn, the flautist Tenderlonious, Yugen Blakrok and the Watts Prophets. At Metacritic it holds an average score of 81 from nine reviews. The Guardian's Ammar Kalia wrote that its multilingual response is one worth hearing.
Personnel
- Tony Allen drums
- Shabaka Hutchings tenor saxophone
- Tamar Osborn baritone saxophone
- Ed 'Tenderlonious' Cawthorne flute
- Yugen Blakrok vocals
- Eric Lau mixing
- Matt Colton mastering
More from Coldcut
What's That Noise? (1989), Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness (1995), Let Us Play! (1997), Sound Mirrors (2006)
Sources
- Keleketla!, Wikipedia
- Coldcut, Wikipedia