Marmalade On The Moon - As-Shams/The Sun Records

07.12.25
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A genre-less space, which focuses on the psychedelic Ley lines that connect the past to the present. Exploring how the world music that connects us all, is rich in both spirit and sonic.

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Batsumi
Toi-Toi
Harari
Thiba Kamoo
Dick Khoza
African Jive (Moto)
Spirits Rejoice
Papa's Funk
Skyjack
Kudu Chant
Skyjack
Method of Moments
Skyjack
Zaubergarten (for Oscar)
Tete Mbambisa
Past Time
Balumbi
Tribal Dance
Xoliso
Shando
Spirits Rejoice
Mulberry Funk
Conscious Listening Pt 1.
Pops Mohamed RIP. As underground jazz fermented in the social and political powder keg of early-80s South Africa, composer and bandleader Pops Mohamed retired the Black Disco moniker in favour of Movement in the City. The group's second offering under their new name yielded one of the most treasured releases in the As-Shams/The Sun catalogue by way of Black Teardrops, a singular blend of down-tempo and atmospheric South African rare groove featuring Dollar Brand saxophonist Basil "Manenberg" Coetzee and bass wizard Sipho Gumede. Sharp-Flat's 2020 reissue puts the album back in print for the first time in 40 years.
Movement in the City, Pop Mohamed
Camel Walk
Conscious Listening Pt 2.
Super rare Afrocentric psych outlier from 1974 via the northeast fringe of Pretoria, South Africa Building on the influence of acclaimed avant-gardists Malombo, Xoliso pushed Mamelodi's nascent Afro-Jazz sound into the domain of Electric Tribal Rock and laced it with vocal chants, brittle fuzz, trippy flute and organ psychedelics.
Xoliso
Shingwanyana
Conscious Listening Pt.3
Harari
Oya Kae
Black Disco, Pops Mohamed
Echo on the Delay