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: Artist......: National Wake
: Album.......: Walk In Africa 1979-81 :
: Label.......: Light In The Attic .. .:.. .
Genre.......: Rock :
Catnr.......: LITA 105 .
' Source......: CD ,
; Rip.date....: 2023-01-21
Str.date....: 2013-10-08
Quality.....: 281kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :..
.:. Url.........: http://lightintheattic.net '
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1. International News 3:19
2. It's All Right 3:32
3. Walk In Africa 5:30
4. Time And Place 3:28
5. Corner House Stone 4:45
6. Mercenaries 4:00
7. Wake Of The Nation 5:49
8. Supaman 5:09
9. Speed It Up 4:06
10. Beat Up The Lights 2:46
11. Black Punk Rockers 3:25
12. Stratocaster 4:33
13. Everybody 3:14
14. Vatsiketeni 17:06
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,: The South Africa of the late 1970s was neither the right place :,
: nor time to launch a mixed-race punk band. Yet, following the :
:' student-inspired Soweto Uprising of 1976, it was also exactly ':
,: the right conditions to foster a band like National Wake, one :,
: formed in an underground commune, and one whose very name exists :
:' in protest at the divisive, racist apartheid regime. Never ':
,: before collected together, Light In The Attic is set to release :,
: National WakeÆs full body of work as Walk In Africa 1979-81. :
:' ':
,: Featured heavily in the recent documentary Punk In Africa , :,
: National Wake played punk, reggae and tropical funk, equally at :
:' home in the cityÆs rock underground and the township nightclub ':
,: circuit. Ivan Kadey started the band with two brothers, Gary and :,
: Punka Khoza. The three were from different worlds û while Ivan :
:' was an outsider, a Jewish orphan born in the traditional ':
,: Johannesburg immigrant neighborhood, Gary, Punka and their :,
: family were forcibly moved to the troubled township of Soweto :
:' under the apartheid regime. Later joined by guitarist Steve ':
,: Moni, the whole band grew up against a backdrop of township :,
: unrest, social upheaval and suburban tedium that characterized :
:' apartheid-era South Africa. ':
,: :,
: National Wake released just one album, in 1981. It sold :
:' approximately 700 copies before being withdrawn under ':
,: government pressure. The band subsequently disintegrated, but :,
: their influence could be traced in the racially mixed post-punk :
:' underground centered around Rockey Street in Johannesburg ':
,: throughout the 1980s, their legacy transmitted through fanzines :,
: and underground cassette trading. :
:' ':
,: Sadly, Gary and Punka Khoza both passed away in their 40s. Kadey :,
: now works as an architect in Los Angeles, but his attention :
:' eventually turned back to the band as their legacy grew in the ':
,: digital era, with the emergence of specialized music websites :,
: and Punk In Africa leading to their rediscovery. Czech State :
:' Radio memorably described the band as ôperhaps the most ':
,: dissident music scene of the 20th century: a multi-racial punk :,
: band in a fascist police state.ö :
:' ':
,: In 2011, Kadey re-released the bandÆs self-titled album on CD in :,
: South Africa, but spoke about having more than 20 tracks that :
:' had never seen the light of day û until now. ôAll of these ':
,: recordings put together they speak of the whole evolution of the :,
: band,ö he has said. ôFrom a sort of naive, almost belief that we :
:' could miraculously change everything to realizing what a ':
,: struggle it was, and what the country was going through and what :,
: it would go through.ö :
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