HARMONIZING SOWETO: GOLDEN CITY GOSPEL & KASI SOUL FROM THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA | VINYL RECORD (LP) 10INCH California: An arid wasteland of

California: An arid wasteland of boredom and empty lots

Embers Glow

The album's title is taken from a lyric of the song "California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade"

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HARMONIZING SOWETO: GOLDEN CITY GOSPEL & KASI SOUL FROM THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA | VINYL RECORD (LP) 10INCH California: An arid wasteland ofIn apartheid era South Africa, gospel music provided solace and served as a tool for covert communication to organize resistance. By the 2010s, South African gospel, deeply ingrained in the soul of Soweto, assumed a new role as a heartfelt cry against persistent failures and shortcomings, a cry mourning a South Africa that never materialized. A new South Africa needed a new gospel sound. In 2016, nine young men from different parts of Diepkloof, a