Jazz Articles about Society Vibes

Society Vibes: A New Hope

by Javier AQ Ortiz
April 12, 2002

A New Hope is a South African recording, from the late ‘80s, with a cascading good vibe stemming from a production that, at times, could very well be described as a musical whimsical prayer. Perhaps “Long Live Sophia Town” and “A New Hope” itself would present the most obvious prayerful examples. Those tunes most noticeably express the reigning desire for a renewal of hope and life in the face of freedom after exhausting oppressive conditions present in most South African ...