Ndikho Xaba And The Natives

Ndikho Xaba And The NativesNdikho Xaba left South Africa in 1964, an exile from his homeland who eventually found a home in San Franciscos vibrant spiritual jazz scene of the late 60s. A songwriter, bandleader, pianist, and inventor of percussion and woodwind instruments, Xaba played alongside contemporaries like Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, and Sun Ra. But it was on the single album he recorded in the US, released in an edition of just 500 copies in 1971, that Xaba

” made their late-night television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live

released to coincide with the album's 20th Anniversary

" "Fire and Rain

" helped to set the tone and introduce the world to Handsome Boy Modeling School

Their second album on Domino and sixth in total

' because it felt like some kind of a time capsule gig

His track 'Trinkets & Things' became a bonafide underground classic

As the band’s sound – bright pop-rock instrumentation blended with Margolin’s tender

And the bonus tracks are priceless: you get her 1985 Elektra recording of "River Deep

NTR wrote and recorded dozens of tracks with only a handful of singles released

With comparisons from Charles Bradley and Lee Fields to Al Green

the stellar mastering by Simon Francis elevates the sound throughout and