★★★★★
Johnny Clegg burst onto the international music scene in a big way after his breakthrough 1988 outdoor gig at the Montreal Jazz Festival before an exuberant crowd of 60,000. I remember attending that show like it was yesterday. Funnily enough, Clegg did play another Jazz Fest outdoor gig yesterday, June 30, to mark the 10th anniversary of the end of apartheid...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
This, Juluka's third recording, is a collection of original Zulu songs. For fans of Juluka's Zulu songs, this is a real treat. For those who dislike songs not sung in English and merely tolerated the Zulu songs on other Juluka or Savuka recordings, your money is best spent elsewhere. This record scores high over much of the group's other work due to a near absence of keyboard sounds -- and when keyboards are present, they are reduced to a single voice line...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Universal Men, Juluka's 1979 debut album (belatedly released in the U.S. in 1992), was a remarkable document for its time. Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu achieved a canny mixture of Western folk-rock and Zulu chant, creating a pop hybrid like nothing that had been heard before, even if the flute and sax solos of Robbie Jansen, playing against the acoustic guitars and Clegg's reedy voice, sometimes suggested Jethro Tull...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
When South Africa was still suffering under the apartheid system in the 1980s, Johnny Clegg & Savuka was the last thing apartheid supporters wanted in a pop group. Their lyrics were often vehemently anti-apartheid, and apartheid supporters hated the fact that a half-black, half-white outfit out of South Africa was integrated and proud of it. Released in the U.S. at the end of the 1980s, Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World is among the many rewarding albums the band has recorded...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Juluka's second release with Johnny Clegg, the first album by an integrated rock band in South Africa, went gold in three months. This first single, "Impi," was based on a Zulu war chant and was considered a call to revolution by people in the know.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
"Asimbonanga (Mandela)" is an anthem already adopted by Joan Baez and others, while the title tune devastatingly discusses what it's like to be asked to "walk in the dreams of the foreigner."
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
A supergroup that defied racial barriers in their South African homeland, Juluka's album Scatterlings was the first introduction to the band for many Americans. Led by lead singer Johnny Clegg, Scatterlings featured Juluka's blend of African and Western rhythms, melodies, and instrumentation. Clegg delivered his self-penned lyrics in a warm voice singing in both English and Zulu. The title track is a jaunty romp that managed to receive a bit of airplay...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
As highbrow performers like Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon make it hip for other successful white rockers to incorporate African musical idioms into their music, it's an opportune time for the genuine items to catch American ears. One of the few integrated South African groups to have made a small dent on this side of the Atlantic prior to Graceland was Juluka, a band with a world-beat sound that drew more from soca than from Zulu jive, more from the Temptations than from the Boyoyo Boys...
- www.rollingstone.com
2008-08-07
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