Own Affairs was, in 1984, the first full-length album by the Kalahari Surfers, the recording identity of South African musician Warrick Sony.
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| Released | 12 December 1984 | |||
| Label | Recommended Records | |||
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Sony had worked as a freelance sound engineer in the South African film industry, and used this to acquire many of the sound samples he later used in his music.[1] Shifty Records tried to release Own Affairs, but could not find a vinyl plant which would press it.[2] Chris Cutler's London-based Recommended Records pressed the album, the start of a long-standing alliance. Own Affairs was hailed as breathtaking, innovative and humorous by the Weekly Mail.[3] The Sunday Times called it "a music born from the spilled seed of our national sickness and nurtured to nightmarehood in the moral drought of daily life/politics".[4]
Contributors
edit- Rick Van Heerden: saxophone
- Anne Botha : voice
- Brian Rath: drums
Track listing
edit- "Free State Fence" 03:18
- "The Surfer" 02:06
- "Prayer For Civilisation" 05:21
- "Hillbrow 1" 05:42
- "Hillbrow 2" 02:07
- "Hippo In Town" 02:55
- "Independence Day" 06:35
- "Don't Dance" 02:54
- "Crossed Cheques" 03:34
- "September 84" 02:45
References
edit- ^ Jones, Andrew (1995). Plunderphonics, 'Pataphysics & Pop Mechanics: An Introduction to Musique Actuelle. SAF Publishing Ltd. p. 234. ISBN 0946719152.
- ^ Jones, Andrew (1995). Plunderphonics, 'Pataphysics & Pop Mechanics: An Introduction to Musique Actuelle. SAF Publishing Ltd. p. 235. ISBN 0946719152.
- ^ Wrench, Nigel (21 June 1985). "Doing the Gunston gig on a sand dune". Weekly Mail.
- ^ Silbert, Gus (16 June 1985). "Kalahari Surfers". Sunday Times: 41.
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