Gwigwi Mrwebi - Mbaqanga Songs LP xx1967 Still very much "death metal"

Still very much "death metal" by design

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Gwigwi Mrwebi - Mbaqanga Songs LP xx1967 Still very much "death metal"Gwigwi Mrwebi travelled to London from Johannesburg in 1960, to appear in the musical King Kong alongside the likes of Dorothy Masuka, featured on London 4. (Back home earlier that year he'd recorded with Hugh Masekela and Kippie Moeketsi in the Jazz Dazzlers; and earlier he'd played with the Jazz Maniacs and the Harlem Swingsters.) The Blue Notes came after him in 1965, and two years later Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana and Ronnie Beer joined Gwigwi