Dollar Brand
African Dawn (LP)
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
Insert and obi included.
Solo again, 1982, on Enja: Dollar Brand a decade on from African Piano, the language deepened and distilled - hymns, township dances and meditations delivered with the calm authority of a man who long ago stopped needing to prove anything to anyone. The South African exile years gave his music its permanent ache of distance and devotion, every vamp carrying home inside it, and the solo format remains the purest vessel for that double weight: nothing between the man, the memory and the instrument. Where the 1969 Copenhagen recordings burn with discovery, this one glows with mastery - the same well, drawn from with steadier hands, the water just as deep and somehow clearer.
Japanese Enja pressing, silent and warm, ideal for music built on sustain and space. For those who found the way in through African Piano, this is the mature return that completes the picture; for newcomers, it works just as well as the door itself.
Release notes
Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, June 7th, 1982. Digital recording. Japanese pressing. Originally with insert and obi.
| A1 | Blues For A Hip King | 5:41 | |
| A2 | A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing | 4:29 | |
| A3 | African Dawn | 4:26 | |
| A4 | African Piano | 6:42 | |
| B1 | For Monk | 4:35 | |
| B2 | Round About Midnight | 5:24 | |
| B3 | Blue Monk | 4:16 | |
| B4 | For Coltrane | 7:18 |
- Elisabeth Winckelmann
- Design [Album]
- 青木和富
- Liner Notes
- Guiseppe Pino
- Photography By [Back]
- Franz Schauer
- Photography By [Front]
- Dollar Brand
- Piano
- Horst Weber
- Producer
- Matthias Winckelmann
- Producer
- Carlos Albrecht
- Recorded By
- Abdullah Ibrahim
- Written-By (A1, A3, A4, B1, B4)
