Each week our music editor Dave Randall picks an album (with a local connection) you need to hear…
The Healing BCUC
The statue in the corner of Max Roach Park commemorating the 1976 Soweto uprising and several street names in our neighbourhood attest to the fact that solidarity has long flowed from the people of Brixton to those of South Africa’s biggest township, Soweto.
Reason enough for me to tell you about this extraordinary album from Soweto’s own Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness (BCUC). If you caught them at Glastonbury last summer you’ll already love the band.
They combine some of South Africa’s most exciting musical traditions in a raw bass, stand up drum and vocal driven sound. The result is political, hypnotic, shamanic and great to dance to. So let The Healing do for you what it says on the sleeve …
