RESISTANCE MUSIC FROM APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA - 2007
"In the early 1980s if you persevered, you could seek out marginal South African musicians playing politically subversive and musically innovative music in a few live venues in the major urban areas. Rarely were such musicians ever recorded by conservative record companies afraid to rock the apartheid boat. Into this void entered Shifty Records, a maverick indie record company co-founded by Lloyd Ross.
...[this compilation] celebrates both the resistance music of the featured musicians and Shifty's role in capturing and preserving a vibrant and important part of South Africa's history of cultural resistance."
Michael Drewett
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