Scatterlings Explained

Scatterlings
Type:	Album
Artist:	Juluka
Cover:	Juluka-Scatterlings-CanadianAlbumCover.jpg
Released:	1982
Recorded:	1982
Genre:	World Music
Label:	EMI/Music Incorporated Warner Bros. (Internationally) Rhythm Safari (reissues 1996-onwards)
Producer:	Hilton Rosenthal
Prev Title:	Ubuhle Bemvelo
Prev Year:	1982
Next Title:	Work for All
Next Year:	1983

Scatterlings is a studio album by Juluka, a South African band led by Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu.^{[1] [2]} It was released in 1982.^{[3] [4]}

The album contains "Scatterlings of Africa", arguably the band's biggest hit (which would be re-recorded to more international success by Juluka's successor band, Savuka).

Critical reception

Robert Christgau wrote that "being a folkie in South Africa takes a lot more guts than it does in liberal societies, and that's audible all over this album—as are the melodic resources of the Zulu tradition, which happen to be vocal rather than percussive." The Globe and Mail wrote that "the music is an unusual and immensely attractive hybrid of tuneful late sixties English folk (in the Fairport Convention, Renaissance mode) with African rhythms."^[5] The Philadelphia Inquirer thought that the band members "are to African music what Crosby, Stills & Nash are to American—namely, wimpy, sappy and awful."

Track listing

Original South African Vinyl Release

1. "Siyayilanda" (Clegg) – 3:43
2. "Kwela Man" (Clegg) – 3:54
3. "Simple Things" (Clegg, Mchunu) – 3:57
4. "iJwanasibeki" (Clegg) – 4:50
5. "Two Humans on the Run" (Clegg) – 4:41
6. "Scatterlings of Africa" (Clegg) – 5:50
7. "Spirit is the Journey" (Clegg, Mchunu) – 4:40
8. "Digging for Some Words" (Clegg) – 4:12
9. "Shake My Way" (Mchunu) – 3:43
10. "Mad Dog" (Clegg) – 3:29

International Release

1. "Scatterlings of Africa"
2. "Spirit is the Journey"
3. "Umbaqanga Music"
4. "Digging for Some Words"
5. "Shake My Way"
6. "Siyayilanda"
7. "Kwela Man"
8. "Simple Things"
9. "iJwanasibeki"
10. "Two Humans on the Run"

Re-issue

1. "Siyayilanda" - 3:57
2. "Kwela Man" - 3:53
3. "Simple Things" - 4:12
4. "iJwanasibeki" - 4:49
5. "Two Humans on the Run" - 4:38
6. "Scatterlings of Africa" - 5:33
7. "Spirit is the Journey" - 4:38
8. "Digging for Some Words" - 4:10
9. "Shake my Way" - 3:41
10. "Mad Dog" - 4:25

Personnel

• Johnny Clegg - vocals, guitar
• Sipho Mchunu - guitar, percussion, vocals
• Gary Van Zyl - bass guitar, percussion, vocals
• Zola Mtiya - drums, percussion, vocals
• Tim Hoare - keyboards, vocals
• Scorpion Madondo - flute, vocals

Additional personnel

• Mike Faure - saxophone (on "Simple Things" and "Spirit is the Journey")
• Mike Makhalemele - saxophone (on "Siyayilanda")
• Glenda Millar - keyboards, synthesisers (on "Umbaqanga Music")

External links

• Juluka discography, accessed May 14, 2006

Notes and References

1. News: Pop's African Roots . The Washington Post . 19 May 2021.
2. News: Morse . Steve . REVIEW / MUSIC: JULUKA SINGS ITS PEACE . The Boston Globe . 12 Nov 1983 . Arts . 1.
3. Web site: Ladysmith and Clegg hit town. Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
4. Web site: BYPASSED RECORDINGS MERIT A SECOND LOOK. Scott. Benarde. Sun-Sentinel.com.
5. News: Lacey . Liam . INSIDE THE SLEEVE POP Scatterlings Of Africa Juluka . The Globe and Mail . 23 July 1983 . F6.