Africa Meltdown Volume Two

An eclectic and highly personal choice of tracks by Robert Trunz featuring the cream of MELT artists and collaborations like:

SAAFI BROTHERS & AMAMPONDO, SHANA (Simply Hot and Naturally African), MTHANDENI MVELASE, MOSES TAIWA MOLELEKWA, MADALA KUNENE, GREG HUNTER, JUNO REACTOR, SMADJ, GREG HUNTER'S ALIEN SOAP OPERA, SANSCAPES 2 REMIXES BY THE BUSHMEN OF THE KALAHARI, BUSI MHLONGO, SKELETON, BRICE WASSY, LUNGISWA,ROBERT DOC MTHALANE & TRIBAL ELDER AND HEAD OF THE SAN FAMILY - !GUBE TIETEI

AFRICAN MELTDOWN VOLUME ONE - PADARE (MZA 032)

MOOD AFRIC -Africa has been my source  of musical and spiritual inspiration since  early manhood, ever challenging my inner  ear in search of the musical energy. Africa is where I found the roots of all the music on this album compiled by Mario Cee with my help and mastered by chief Chris Lewis during long days at my home mastering facility. The choice of both traditional and contemporary world music, jazz, kwaito and a variety of electronic remixes on this full length CD represent my deepest feeling for what I call m.e.l.t music - musical energy and loud truth. Purists will no doubt be challenged by the intermingling of aesthetics and techniques. But from quite literally, Cape Town to Cairo, African music is becoming a forum, a meeting place if you like of older wisdom testing the flexibility of the new instruments, closing the spiritual and the digital divide as only music can do. So join our imbizo (gathering) and enjoy some time away from the ordinary.

EARTH ROOTS (BW090)

With the onset of the millennium, new values, standards and attitudes will continue to emerge. We have already reached the point where many of us realise we have become victims of man-made destruction. Indeed, there are many changes we need to implement if we plan to survive. The most crucial of these changes must be our realisation that the Earth is alive. Gases, minerals, water, fire and air all have consciousness. The awareness and experience of this is vital for our survival and will revolutionise our earthly experience.

SOUND ADVICE (BW063)
produced by Airto Moreira

"The idea of the album is a journey through someone's life. It could be at any time. they could come from any culture," Byron Wallen explains the concept behind his debut for MELT. It's a madly eclectic recording, which veers from straight jazz, fusion and Latin to avant garde, hip hop and funk, all blended into a gleaming-but-edgy whole, and focussed by Byron's increasingly distinctive and primal blowing. Mystical voices flow into mist-shrouded skin-pattering, burnished horns scribbling around Afro-vocalising with Wallen also giving the nod to forerunners like Don Cherry and Lester Bowie.

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ART GECKO

'Art Gecko' is another album to come out of the rich seam of talent that surrounds the Music department and the Modern Jazz course of the University of Natal, South Africa. Band leader Chris Merz and Melvin Peters are both members of the teaching faculty, whilst other members of the group are alumni of the University. While the majority of the band are South African, the modern jazz of Counterculture transcends national boundaries. 'Feya' Faku's trumpet playing creates light and shade with beautiful simplicity, calling and responding with the sax of Chris Merz in an almost uncanny fashion.