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 These two volumes are reissues of an album compiled and released ten years ago. Volume one will be available on 11th October 2024 and the released date for volume two will be announced later. (c) Songwrights Publishers   Here a press release text from the label - Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa: African Choral Legacy - Historical Recordings   African Choral Legacy: Historic Recordings of Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa was the first CD released by African Composers Edition, as ACE 001, in 2014. It comprised 31 tracks of short unaccompanied choral works by Lesotho composer Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa (1908-1982), in the Sesotho language.  The tracks are a companion to ACE’s complete edition of the 145 music scores of Mohapeloa and are a remarkable historical record of African choral singing and fully notated choir music (as distinct from traditional music or jazz) across 7 decades.  The first 8 tracks on Volume 1 of this new downloadable CD were recorded in 1936/37 in Johannesburg,

Internet search Bio – Tony Cox   Tony Cox is a South African guitarist and composer known for his virtuosic fingerstyle guitar playing. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1954 but moved to South Africa in the late 1960s. His music spans a wide variety of genres, including folk, jazz, and classical, often blending African rhythms and melodies with Western guitar traditions. Cox gained recognition for his intricate, percussive playing style, frequently utilizing fingerpicking techniques, often compared to artists like John Fahey or Leo Kottke. His mastery of acoustic guitar has earned him multiple awards in South Africa, including several South African Music Awards (SAMAs). Throughout his career, Cox has released numerous albums, performed internationally, and collaborated with notable South African musicians. In addition to his performing career, Cox is an educator, regularly conducting guitar workshops and masterclasses. His contributions to South African music and h

Next month we commence a series of re-issues that highlight the career of the Steel String Guitar virtuoso Tony Cox . 'The World Went Quiet is his most recent release and is essentially a self-penned, instrumental album that includes three vocal tracks. Tony produced and recorded all tracks at home in the depth of the Covid Pandemic ' .  The re-issue date is  - 18th October 2024      Here a press release text from the artist - The World Went Quiet came about during the Covid shutdown when we were all told to stay at home and not hug or touch each other. I hunkered down in a tiny room in Gainsborough, UK and poured myself into this little album.  It was a strange time and we lost so many people who were close to our family. The album reflects these times but does not dwell there.  I put in quite a bit of heavy groove and jumpy stuff to keep your foot tapping, and even humour. I really hope you enjoy listening to it as much

Probably the most commercially successful of his early records, Ocean Motion is Robin Auld & Z-Astaire's second and Auld's third album. (c) Songwrights Publishers. Photo Bruce Granville-Mathews. We re-issue the original tracks on the 30th of August 2024. Here is a press release from the artist management. > Ocean Motion was Robin Auld and Z-Astaire's 2nd album for the band line-up.  Produced in 1985 by Kevin Shirley in Cape Town for Mountain Records, it yielded the number one song All of Woman, along with other top ten songs Sesheke Town and After the Fire .  The band's sound had consolidated after several tours and the release propelled them further into national prominence in their home country of South Africa, playing big shows country wide and confirming them as one of the countries top rock music acts.  The album also showcased the  wider influences of the band and Auld's songwriting in songs such as " Village is a house " and "

From the archives there is a new single from Robin Auld & Z-Astaire. A Remixed and Remastered and Pepped up version of a track from his Ocean Motion album originally billed as Leon, now Oh Leon .  (c) Songwrights Publishers   It is scheduled, for release on 16th July 2024 through Mountain Records. Here a press release from the artist. Written by Robin in 1980 as a comment on the apartheid policies of the Nationalist party governing South Africa, "Leon" first appeared on Auld's debut album "At the corner" and was played by maverick radio presenter Chris Prior.  After the formation of the band Z-Astaire,  the song was re-visited for the bands 2nd album "Ocean Motion". Produced by Kevin Shirley and released by independent Cape Town label Mountain Records, the album produced several top ten hits including the enduring No 1 radio hit "All of woman".  Now the song, with some mix and master updates, will be re-released digitally as "Oh Leon

 The album Maghreb Jazz Guitar by guitar specialist Jan Wouter Oostenrijk will be re-issued on the 26th of July 2024. Here is the release text from the artist management. (c) Songwrights Publishers Re-release of the album Maghreb Jazz Guitar (2006), that won a RadioIndy golden artist award in the USA in 2008  The album can be seen as one of first in the development of the Maghreb Jazz music style. Extraordinarily gifted, classically trained Dutch guitarist Jan Wouter Oostenrijk has put together an interesting band of North African musicians to create a group that’s able to navigate the crosscurrents between guitar-led jazz and Moroccan Maghreb music.    The more openly energetic moments on the album come on the original numbers, such as the spidery Weather Report-like fusion of “I Blaed I Musiqya” (inspired, according to the liner notes, by a Sudanese dalib rhythm), or the jumpy traditional Moroccan sounding “Barud,” where the band’s indigenous rhythms provide a propulsive fou