Okzharp & Manthe Ribane - Closer Apart (2LP)

Okzharp & Manthe Ribane - Closer Apart (2LP)Okzharp & Manthe Ribane Closer Apart (2LP) Closer Apart' is the debut album by UK South African duo Okzharp and Manthe Ribane. Okzharp says 'most of the music came out of headphone moments in hotel rooms, planes and airports in the brief periods of time that we spent together, mainly on tour, in Paris and later Vienna', a city Manthe describes as a 'beautiful dream place'. Okzharp describes Manthe as a co producer, she selected instrumental sketches

the situation in South Africa had been explosive for a long time and any issue could have delivered the shift in momentum that June 16 would symbolise

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and inspired by artists like Shuggie Otis

The album – which sees Redbone accompanied by such studio luminaries as drummer Steve Gadd

A blend of laid-back grooves

May these songs carry you through your darkest days like they did for me

their intentions are simple: they want to own the world

Soar with "Let Your Astral Body Fly

You can hear he has put himself into this release

Neon Indian

16 June 1976 is unanimously recognised as the definitive turning point in the tenor and intensity of the fight against apartheid

in South London