M.E.L.T. 2000 - The Music Videos (DVD)
Mick Raubenheimer comments on the release: The "Music Videos" DVD runs like an SA-Jazz lover's serial wet-dream: You've got Busi (SA's Joplin via Fitzgerald) Mhlongo literally overwhelming her overseas audiences, Moses Molelekwa's Spirits of Tembisa, Zim's Migrant Workers, Bafo Bafo's meeting 'tween the Kitchen and and Kunene, Vusi Khumalo's anthemic Dusk till Dawn - in fact every video video is worthy of thankful embrace. And then there are the the choice of interntaional infections a la Brazilian Jazz queen Flora Purim going experimental, UK trancer's Juno Reactor's God is God and on and on ....... These two DVD's offer a fantastic journey into-through SA's audial art and beyond ......all tracks are exclusive.
Track Listing
- Busi Mhlongo - Uganga Nge Ngane live
- Bafo Bafo - Zimpi Zombango
- Fana Zulu Moses Taiwa Molelekwa, Airto Moreira, Jose Neto, Shaluza Max, Byron Wallen and Andrew Missingham - Hungry on Arrival
- Moses Taiwa Molelekwa - Spirits of Tembisa
- Vusi Khumalo - Dusk to Dawn
- Madala Kunene - KonkoMan
- Zim Nqqwana & Shaluza Max - Amagaduka (Migrant Workers)
- Bafo Bafo - Manje
- Juno Reactor - Feel the Universe
- Amampondo - SengÙ Inkomo
- Flora Purim - Light as My Flow
- Bafo Bafo - Jim
- Juno Reactor - God is God
- OHM - Slow
- Moses Taiwa Molelekwa - Darkness Pass 1
M.E.L.T. 2000 - Strings & Songs
Mick Raubenheimer comments on the release: "Viewing the two recenttly released MELT 2000 DVD compilations I was struck anew by the sheer wealth of this label's history. If the spirit of "modern" South African Jazz were to be time-capsuled for the hypothetical reference of distant future species, MELT 2000's compilation would head the list. Where the major distributors of local Jazz opted for curio - shop obviousnes, snagging well-known artists (brands) and releasing only their most tourist-gratifying works, M.E.L.T. 2000 has been facilitating, and gathering, those artists with an original voice and a passion to inter-explore other venues of sound. Which, come to think, might just be the very definition of that tricksygenre called Jazz".
Track Listing
- Introduction to Ntombe - Thongo Tutsu
- Ntombe Thongo Tutsu - Ungabeth'umfazi (Don't beat your wife)
- Madala Kunene & Mabi Thobejane - Kunzima
- Busi Mhlongo - Yehlisan'umoya Ma Africa
- Madala Kunene - Gumbela
- Greg Georgiades Madala Kunene Ashish Joshi & Bernard S'bu Mndaweni - Together Now (Uxolo)
- Umshika Shika Wenkunzi - Ivolontiya (volunteer to help)
- Greg Georgiades Madala Kunene Ashish Joshi & Bernard S'bu Mndaweni - Pyramid (Tings)
- Madala Kunene, Bernard S'bu Mndaweni, Mabi Thobejane & L.A.P. - Impukane
- Madala Kunene, Bernard S'bu Mndaweni, Mabi Thobejane & L.A.P. - Umvelinqange
- Umshika Shika Wenkunzi - Umkamuntu (married woman)
- Della Tamin & Yolande Ndongo - Tam Tam
- Sipho Gumede & Lindiwe Ngwane feat. Airto Moreira, Mabi Thobejane, Tsidi Manye, Nonhlanhle Ngcobo, Faca Khulu, Shaluza Max, Andrew Missingham - Mamaye
