The Scrapbook face to face, a rare recording of the magical encounter between Sotho folk singers and the Swedish collective, has been dusted off by Strut Records. Available January 27.
Vusi Mahlasela was only a child when, inspired by the musicians of the bar run by his grandmother in their township of Mamelodi, he built his very first guitar with fishing line and a can of oil. But he was also only a child when he witnessed the deadly suppression of the Soweto demonstrations in 1976, organized by the black students of the southwest of…
