Spirits Rejoice - African Spaces

The South African response to Chick Corea’s Return to Forever and Miles’ On the Corner

• A defining musical statement in South Africa’s jazz canon – pinpointing the moment of social and musical ferment in which the country’s terms of engagement with jazz were irreversibly changed.
• Forged when township kids were facing down bullets, this is an electric mulberry funk – slick, intense and complex.
• Reissued for the first time since 1977 with inner sleeves containing archival photographs and new liner notes by Francis Gooding.
• Audio remastered and cut for vinyl by Frank Merritt at The Carvery with heavyweight 180g vinyl pressed at Pallas in Germany

At a distance of more than forty years, the radicalism and significance of African Spaces can be seen more clearly. Ambitious, uncompromising, and resolutely progressive, it represents a unique high-water mark in South Africa’s long musical engagement with the newest developments in American jazz – a response to the cosmic call of Return To Forever, and an answer to Miles’ On the Corner.