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KOOS
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Sing Jy Van Bomme 02:07
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Ek Is My Dilemma 01:30
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Sing Jy Van Bomme 02:09
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Is Jy ‘n Moegoe 02:07
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A Zebra In Paris 02:01
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Sloper 01:58
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Delilah (free) 01:58
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Breed Like Rats 02:20
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Wil Ons Oorlewe 04:04
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Tsafendas 05:25
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‘n Bietje Dom 01:52
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Cowboy 02:34
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Vlermuis 04:09
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Too Heavy To Rise 01:26
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Three big things happened to me in 1987: I returned to South Africa after a year of touring my Kalahari Surfers band in the UK, I met my wife and I saw a band called Koos. They were, for me, the only South African band that fitted in with the work I was doing with Recommended Records and the political climate of the time. I saw them play at “The Pool CLub” and later again at “The Black Sun” in Johannesburg.They performed with incredible intensity combining theatre, art and music with punk sensibility, and best of all using the Afrikaans language which the best expressed , in my opinion, the peculiar zeitgeist of the 80’s. Not only the South African 80’s but the global cold war 80’s. Like German, Afrikaans has an angst that grabs the soul. I approached them about recording and brought them into the Shifty Studio* one Sunday morning where most of their tracks were laid down live. Shifty had already begun recording some of the Afrikaans punk bands like Gereformeerde Blues Band and Bernoldus Niemand. KOOS were different though:they fitted somewhere outside of the light entertainment market. It was hard. I think of the Brecht quote “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Essentially a live studio album, it was recorded straight onto a Fostex B16 and digital SonyPCM ( the first digital recorder on the market). The recording was released as a cassette tape in a brown paper bag stamped with the word “KOOS”. Some months later, I recorded one of their performances live at the Black Sun, from which 2 bonus tracks appear here Here, then ,is the KOOS cassette packaged for CD reissue and now for MP3 release through Sjambok. As they say “Oud maar nog nie koud” Warrick Sony – Kalahari Surfers www.kalaharisurfers.co.za Lloyd Ross and I ran a small mobile studio called “Shifty” which was situated in a derelict mining village South West of the city of Johannesburg. Check out the Shifty Records website: www.shifty.co.za I will be uploading their releases here shortly.- credits
- released 06 June 1986
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- tags: afrikaans alternative art electronic industrial johannesburg punk rock south africa Cape Town
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