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Classic South African Rock Songs available to download
Many of my favourite South African Rock songs from the 70′s, 80′s and 90′s have been becoming available for download on Rhythm Music Store over the last while.
Here are a few of them, in no particular order:
- Buccaneer – McCully Workshop
- ZX Dan – Radio Rats
- International News – National Wake
- Mysteries and Jealousy – The Helicopters
- This Boy – Sweatband
- Playgrounds In Paradise – Finch and Henson
- Celebrate – Julian Laxton Band
- Give Me The Good News – Crocodile Harris
- Jo Bangles – Baxtop
- Johnny Calls The Chemist – Falling Mirror
- Shadows – éVoid
- Six String Razor – Mauritz Lotz
- Goeienag Generaal – Piet Botha
- Sarajevo – Jack Hammer
- Who Killed Kurt Cobain – Koos Kombuis
- Blommetjie Gedenk Aan My – Anton Goosen
- Competition Rules – No Friends Of Harry
- Don’t Dance – Kalahari Surfers
- Bokkie Bokkie – David Kramer
- Kiss The Machine – Battery9
- Die Mystic Boer – Valiant Swart
- Sex – Pressure Cookies
- Waiting (For A Miracle) – Dog Detachment
- The Boys – Lancaster Band
- Baby You Been Good To Me – Robin Auld
- Thugs – The Dynamics
- The Road Is Much Longer – Roger Lucey
- Shot Down - The Cherry Faced Lurchers
- Ancient Dust Of Africa – Edi Niederlander
- Button Your Lip – Illegal Gathering
- Sea Level – Urban Creep
- The Party Song – The Electric Petals
- Road – Sugardrive
Die Mystic Boer – Valiant Swart
Die Mystic Boer – Valiant Swart (Dis ’n Groot Avontuur)
Die Mystic Boer by Valiant Swart
I can’t help but think of The Doors’ ‘Riders On The Storm’ when I hear this song. Not that ‘Die Mystic Boer’ is a rip off of Jim Morrison’s classic, it’s just that it has a similar texture to it, and, on certain versions where Simon ‘Agent’ Orange is given free rein on the keyboards, the rich organ sound certainly owes something to Ray Manzarek. The fact that the cover of ‘Die Mystic Boer’ album features a man on a horse with a guitar furthers a ‘Riders’ ambiance.
Valiant hung out with the legendary Koos Kombuis (whom he met during his military service) but was not really part of the Voëlvry movement that brought Afrikaans rock music to the nation. However, in 1996, he released the album ‘Die Mystic Boer’, and became the leading light of the next phase of Afrikaan Rock music. The title track of the album
quickly established itself as not only an important Afrikaans blues song but also an important South African song. The lyrics are poetical, the music mystical and bluesy and the song is magical.
It is worth checking out some of the recorded live versions of the song such as that on the cassette only release ‘Voetstoets‘ and the ‘Tassenberg All Stars‘ (the first one) album.
Where to find it:
- Die Mystic Boer (1997) Wildebeest Records, SWART001
- Boland Punk 1988 -2001 (2001) Rhythm Records, SWART005
- Voetstoets (1998) Wildebeest Records, SWART004 (Live version
on cassette only) - Tassenberg All Stars (2000) Rhythm Records, RR/001
- Mystic Myle 1988-2005 (2005) Rhythm Records, SWART008 (2005 acoustic version)
Lyrics:
op ‘n vaal vlakte
het ons hom die eerste keer gewaar
hy’t snaaks gedans en weggeraak
in ‘n waas van walms en wind
daar was klowe in die verte
en die son was nog jonk
en grys voëls het ons dopgehou
toe ons onder die oggend vir mekaar geknik het
ons gaan hom jag
die newels het gewink
die dag het geruik na nuwe bloed
en gebreek
veertig dae en veertig nagte
soek ons die mystic boer
maar soos die perde van middernag-gedagtes
bly hy op sy hoede en loer
oor sy skouer
ons loop deur die leegte
met ons oë vasgepen op ‘n stofwolk
waar sy voete die aarde ontstig het
met passies vol punk en plesierigheid
die môrestond het ons blinkgesmeer met vars hoop
op geluk en wysheid en vreugde
en vure vol verskeidenheid
en lig
na die berge, na die klowe, na die spelonke
dwarrel die gees
terwyl ons, die jagters, hom bestorm
met nette en tralies
en tyd
veertig dae en veertig nagte
soek ons die mystic boer
maar soos die perde van middernag-gedagtes
bly hy op sy hoede en loer
oor sy skouer
die grense van ons mission
was slegs die wind en weer
die bliksems en donders wat bangpraat
en reën bring om stof te kanselleer
hoe groter die drang na ontmoeting
met die koning van die nuwe asem
hoe woester die tog
en hoe stiller
daar was ‘n skaduwee om merker te speel
en ‘n uptempo rouklaag die magnet
en visioene van nuwe dinge
was oral
veertig dae en veertig nagte
soek ons die mystic boer
maar soos die perde van middernag-gedagtes
bly hy op sy hoede en loer
oor sy skouer
skielik was daar niks
behalwe ‘n vaal vlakte en die son
was ons alleen met water en jeans
die danser was weg
teen middernag was die maan treurig en mooi
en die grond het gesmaak na sout
en toe die nuwe oggend opstaan uit die berg
het grys voëls ons dopgehou
so as jy hom sien, en jy wil hom soek
doen dit gerus
want dis ‘n groot avontuur
alhoewel jy eindig
waar jy begin het
veertig dae en veertig nagte
soek ons die mystic boer
maar soos die perde van middernag-gedagtes
bly hy op sy hoede en loer
oor sy skouer met ‘n vreemde grynslag
en dans in die nánag met die maan
oor sy skouer met ‘n oog wat uitdaag
kom nader, kom vra my my naam
ek’s die Mystic Boer
die Mystic Boer
ek’s die Mystic Boer
die Mystic Boer
Valiant Swart - courtesy of Valiant.co.za
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Valiant Swart
Valiant Swart vier sy 20ste jaar op die verhoog vanjaar by Oppikoppi 2010. Oppikoppi bied vanjaar ‘n verhoog waar talle ander kunstenaars Valiant Swart se musiek gaan opvoer. Om die geleentheid te vier en om vir sy fans ietsie spesiaals te gee is hier nou 13 van Valiant se persoonlike gunsteling tunes GRATIS beskikbaar. Gooi wyd!
