80's German /African Dance Classic
Helmut Zerlett and Stefan Krachten in cooperation with Reebop Kwaku Baah. Baah, who died in 1982, was a percussionist with Ginger Baker Airforce, Traffic and later with Can. "Masimbabele", released as a 12" in 1983 by Rough Trade after Baahs death, was his great legacy.
"Actually it wasn't easy to release the track at first. We went to the established record-labels and they told us: "Well, a rock-guitar and a funky beat with african singing..., we don't know how to sell that, we don't have a pigeon-hole for this". ROUGH TRADE were the only ones who said "Awesome" and all of the sudden we had sold 100.000 records without one Mark spent for promotion. The track ran for years and years.
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