Uprize!

The new release of the South African jazz collective Spaza is the soundtrack to the film Uprize!. The group recorded the album in Johannesburg in 2016, during a three-day improvisational session for the film's soundtrack. The protests of June 16, 1976, lasted for several weeks and spread across the entire country, demonstrating solidarity among students and the brutality of the state. The recording process reflects this prolonged state, during which a "new public language" was developed, now spoken by modern South Africa.

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