''Techno-Bush'' is a 1984 studio album by South African jazz trumpeter
Hugh Masekela.
It was recorded in
Gaborone, Botswana
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Reception
Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and ...
stated: "Like Malcolm McLaren with a birthright, Masekela has given up the dull demijazz of his U.S. period and returned to Africa, where he cops riffs and rhythms, calypso raps and organ jive and of course trumpet parts, as cannily as the cleverest imperialist, then serves them up in a highly palatable English-language fusion. Beyond a few leftover dull spots my only cavil is the lyric of the demihit, 'Don't Go Lose It Baby'—shouldn't crow so about being a 'winner' in a country where the deck is stacked like it is in Botswana."
Track listing
Personnel
Band
*Hugh Masekela – horns, percussion, vocals, keyboards
*Zakes Mchunu – bass
*Bongani Nxele – drums
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Banjo Mosele
Banjo Timothy Mosele (born 1 April 1960) is a guitarist, singer and composer born in Kanye, Botswana.
Career
Banjo Mosele is a founding member of the Kalahari Band that backed Hugh Masekela, and Mosele toured the world with this band throughout th ...
– guitar (rhythm)
*John Selolwane – guitars, vocals (listed as John 'Blackie' Selolwane)
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Moses Ngwenya – organ
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Gasper Lawal
Gasper Lawal (born 23 September 1948 in Ijebu Ode, Nigeria) is a Nigerian drummer, griot, and composer who has publicized traditional African percussive languages in the West. As a performer, his "Afriki" sound created a fusion of Nigerian percussi ...
– percussion
*Mandisa Dlanga – vocals
*Mopati Tsienyane – vocals
*Stella Khumalo – vocals
*Tsepo Tshola – vocals
Production
*Greg Cutler – engineer
*Nigel Green – engineer (mix)
*Stewart Levine – producer
*Peter Harris – programming (on the
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References
External links
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1984 albums
Hugh Masekela albums
Albums produced by Stewart Levine