Ladysmith Black Mambazo - In Harmony (CD 1999)

Became interested in LBM through Paul Simon's Graceland album. The show intoduced us to the genuine, uncontrived African rhythm which spurts naturally out of the voices on this CD. So many other so-called rhythms are a contrived, often desperate attempt to prove that the artist "can do it", thus fail miserably. These guys have no need for gimmicks, they are the real thing. Sadly they have been drowned by the so-called popular music that has swamped the world in the belief that what is western must be acceptable.