Keyboards • Organ • Guitar - Pops Mohamed
Tenor Sax - Basil "Manenberg" Coetzee (Flute on "Camel Walk")
Alto Sax • Flute - Robbie Jansen
Bass - Sipho Gumede (Peter Odendaal on "Camel Walk")
Drums - Roger Harry (Monty Weber on "Camel Walk")
Recorded at Satbel Studio ("Camel Walk" at Gallo)
Engineer: Phil Audoire
Produced by Rashid Vally
Original Release 1981 • Cat. No. SRK 786150
DECEMBER 2020: 1981 South African Soul-Funk-Jazz by the creator of the Black Disco albums. As underground jazz fermented in the social and political powder keg of early-80s South Africa, composer and bandleader Pops Mohamed retired the Black Disco moniker in favour of Movement in the City. The group's second offering under their new name yielded one of the most treasured releases in the As-Shams/The Sun catalogue by way of Black Teardrops, a singular blend of down-tempo and atmospheric South African rare groove featuring Dollar Brand saxophonist Basil "Manenberg" Coetzee and bass wizard Sipho Gumede. Sharp-Flat's 2020 reissue puts the album back in print for the first time in 40 years.
Pops Mohamed in Actonville, Benoni in January 2021
(Photo: Calum MacNaughton)
