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Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa: African Choral Legacy - Historical Recordings, Volume 2

The second part of this historic African Choir series is to be released on the 29th November 2024. Here is  the press release for Volume 1 & 2 issued by the label. Taken fro the CD booklet. Link to the full booklet below   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, the other 8 from 1954 to 1980.  The recordings on Volume 2