Track 8 from "Ownership" - world/rock mashup - zulu drumming and chanting, hip-hop, bolero, rock guitar, doumbek, brazilian jazz breakdown. Featured instruments - alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet and rock guitar solo.

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Released by: Anthr-O-Tone
Release date: Sep 1, 2008
ISRC: US-MGL-08-00008 

Everything That's Broken

Track 7 from "Ownership" - intense ballady minor key verse into uptempo sabar driven (Senegalese) pre-chorus into hard driving rock chorus. Featured Instruments - soprano sax and kora.

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Released by: Anthr-O-Tone
Release date: Sep 1, 2008
ISRC: US-MGL-08-00007 

Ache

Track 6 from "Ownership" - dramatic monologue to acoustic guitar and stratocaster w indian tabla. groove.

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Released by: Anthr-O-Tone
Release date: Sep 1, 2008
ISRC: US-MGL-08-00006 

Ramboda

Track 5 from "Ownership" - reggae / rock groove with horn parts and heavy harmony vocal chorus. featured instrument - tenor sax and guitar solo.

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Released by: Anthr-O-Tone
Release date: Sep 1, 2008
ISRC: US-MGL-08-00005 

Flat Earth

Track 4 from "Ownership" - ethereal rock spiritual w/ acoustic guitar and mbira into hard rock choruses - laden with electronic and acoustic percussion. Crescendo ending.

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Released by: Anthr-O-Tone
Release date: Sep 1, 2008
ISRC: US-MGL-08-00004 

Windy Day (all those souls)

Track 3 from "Ownership": - hard driving rock guitars juxtaposed with reggae grooves. Horn driven outro. Featured instrument - electric guitar
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Released by: Anthr-O-Tone
Release date: Sep 1, 2008
ISRC: US-MGL-08-00003


Regina

Track 2 from "Ownership" - Homage to Johannesburg. South African pop style with maskanda guitar and reggae chorus. Featured players: McCoy Mrubata - alto; Khaya Mahlangu - tenor, Bakithi Kumalo - bass, Ian Herman - drum kit; Stella Khumalo and Faith Kekana - harmony vocals Nery Arevalo - percussion.

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Released by: Anthr-O-Tone
Release date: Sep 1, 2008
ISRC: US-MGL-08-00002

Jozi

Track 1 from "Ownership" - polyrythmic West African/blues inspired guitar styles laid over a bed of traditional African drums, mbira and percussion fused w rock kit and power chord choruses. South African vocables.

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Released by: Anthr-O-Tone
Release date: Sep 1, 2008
ISRC: US-MGL-08-00001

Interim Man

African/Asian-centric orchestral composition in 6/8 composed for JMU Dance Company. Cyrildene is the "China Town"settlement area of Jo'burg.

Cyrildene

4/4 World Orchestral Composition commissioned for JMU Dance Company

Umfolozi

From the Album "Ancestral Healing" with Pops Mohamed and Ema

Communal Well

"WORLD MUSIC ON JET FUEL!"  Singer/songwriter, guitarist, producer, Mthakathi expands the rock / world fusion movement into the realm of Safro Rock with his fiery, multi-culti mash-up of rock, South African and eclectic world elements. He is all at once an innovative song-smith, an arresting guitarist and a magnetic performer. If there is a bridge between rock and world music, Mthakathi  - the "magic man" - is surely one of it's keepers.

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