RSSMahotella Queens
- Izibani Zomgqashiyo [Shanachie, 1986] A−
- Marriage Is a Problem [Shanachie, 1990]
- Women of the World [Shanachie, 1993]
- Buya Buya Come Back [Umsakazo, 2025] A
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Izibani Zomgqashiyo [Shanachie, 1986]
Associated in an earlier incarnation with Mahlathini, a woman-group trademark gets the billing on this 1977 album, but various kings get the good parts, groaning or just singing lead calls or embellished responses on every one of these reported hits. This is mbaqanga at its catchiest. The structures are varied just enough to keep you on your toes, and the beat is indomitably alive. A−
Marriage Is a Problem [Shanachie, 1990]
Women of the World [Shanachie, 1993]
Buya Buya Come Back [Umsakazo, 2025]
It's been a quarter century since Lion of Soweto cum mbaqanga king Simon Mahlathini Nkabinde roared on this earth, so it would be going too far to claim that the superb live-in-U.K. 1988-89 Music Inferno is nevertheless not nearly as definitive as 1980's incomparable multi-artist Indestructible Beat of Soweto. The genre is just too male. Nonetheless, I have a hunch that at some future moment when I'm in the mood for an Indestructible Beat alternative this ebullient, newly recorded female sampler-cum-best-of will return to my CD player, fully annotated by Hilda Tloubatla, who joined up 60 years ago at 22 and is still at it. A