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Abdullah Ibrahim - Ekaya (Home) flac album
  • Performer Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Title Ekaya (Home)
  • Date of release 1987
  • Country Europe
  • Style Fusion
  • Other formats VOC MPC ASF MP3 MOD AUD APE
  • Genre Jazz
  • Size MP3 1566 mb
  • Size FLAC 1664 mb
  • Rating: 4.2
  • Votes: 610

Abdullah Ibrahim (born Adolph Johannes Brand on 9 October 1934 and formerly known as Dollar Brand) is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles. Ibrahim is considered the leading figure in the subgenre of Cape jazz

On this page you can listen to mp3 music free or download album or mp3 track to your PC, phone or tablet. Release title: Abdullah Ibrahim - Ekaya (Home). Photo of Abdullah Ibrahim - Ekaya (Home). More albums of Abdullah Ibrahim: Water From An Ancient Well. This album was released on the label Ekapa (catalog number . 005) Ekapa (catalog number EKAPA-005). This album was released in 1983 year.

Abdullah Ibrahim ‎– Ekaya (Home). Label: Ekapa ‎– EKAPA-005. Piano, Arranged By, Directed By – Abdullah Ibrahim. Producer – Abdullah Ibrahim, Sathima Bea Benjamin. Tenor Saxophone – Ricky Ford. Trombone – Dick Griffin. Written-By – Abdullah Ibrahim (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to B3), Mackay Davashe (tracks: A3). Notes. White label Test Pressing. Ekaya (Home) ‎(LP, Album). Roots Record Company.

Pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim had one of his strongest groups for this studio date, a septet LP with altoist Carlos Ward, tenor saxophonist Ricky Ford, baritonist Charles Davis, trombonist Dick Griffin, bassist Cecil McBee, and drummer Ben Riley.

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Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya: Sotho Blue. Personnel: Abdullah Ibrahim: grand piano; Belden Bullock: bass; George Gray: drums; Cleave Guyton: alto sax, flute; Keith Loftis: tenor sax;Andrae Murchison: trombone; Jason Marshall: baritone sax. Title: Sotho Blue Year Released: 2011 Record Label: Sunnyside Records. Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya at the Michigan Theater. The Song Is My Story by Maurizio Zerbo. The Song Is My Story by James Nadal.

The highlight from those concerts, a marvellous saxophone and trombone quartet version of that glorious, hymn-like tearjerker "The Wedding", remains the high-point on Sotho Blue, although everything here is amiable enough, if a little low-energy for much of the album. One can't help missing the original group's Carlos Ward on sax and flute.

Tracklist

1 Ekaya 7:59
2 Sotho Blue 5:59
3 Ntyilo, Ntyilo, 4:41
4 Bra Timing Form Phomolong 5:22
5 Ek Se Ou Windhoek Toe Nou 8:23
6 Cape Town 7:11

Credits

  • Cover – Abdurahman Bauxhau Stone
  • Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
  • Producer – Abdullah Ibrahim, Sathima Bea Benjamin

Notes

Ekaya means Home, in several southern African languages

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
E.K. 005, EKAPA-005 Abdullah Ibrahim Ekaya (Home) ‎(LP, Album) Ekapa, Ekapa E.K. 005, EKAPA-005 Europe 1983
BKH 50205 Abdullah Ibrahim Ekaya (Home) ‎(LP, Album, RE) Blackhawk Records BKH 50205 Germany 1987
HUL 507 Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand)* Ekaya (Home) ‎(LP, Album) Ekaya HUL 507 South Africa 1984
ROTH 126 Abdullah Ibrahim Ekaya (Home) ‎(LP, Album) Roots Record Company ROTH 126 South Africa 1989
KVL 5006, ABC 11625 Abdullah Ibrahim Ekaya ‎(LP, Album) Ekaya, Gallo KVL 5006, ABC 11625 South Africa 1984


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I believe all of the tracks but one ("Ek Se Ou Windhoek Toe Nou") are reissued on https://www.discogs.com/Abdullah-Ibrahim-Ekaya-The-Mountain/master/775558A truly excellent album