Name: Lord Shango (Original 1975 Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Brand: Howard Roberts

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TWM72LITA

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Clear

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

180 Gram Vinyl with Obi.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-09-10

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

735202315156

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / clear

TWM72RSD

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Black

Extended format: No

2021-06-12

804589493679

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Howard Roberts

Genre GB

Soundtracks

Label GB

Tidal Waves Music

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Released in early 1975, Lord Shango’s marketing materials painted it as a horror movie...but in truth, it’s a thoughtful, deliberately paced blend of genres similar in tone and cultural content (comparable to the spirit and feel of the 1973 film Ganja and Hess...and also starring Marlene Clark) and plays like a “woke'' old-timey melodrama in the mold of the “race films” of the early 20th century from pioneering black directors like Oscar Micheaux and Spencer Williams. This racial consciousness is undoubtedly a manifestation of the Afrocentrism and Black Power movement of the ’60s and ’70s.

Writer Paul Carter Harrison, whose playwright background comes through in the literate, dialogue-driven script, was raised in a family that had roots in Marcus Garvey’s Pan-Africanism movement and the Gullah culture, and a couple of years before Lord Shango, he wrote a book about the imprint of traditional African beliefs on the black experience and the need to reflect this influence in the arts.

Released by Bryanston Pictures who rose to prominence by financing and distributing films such as the crossover porn sensation Deep Throat, as well as big horror and cult films like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Bruce Lee’s Return of the Dragon, the Andy Warhol productions Blood for Dracula-Flesh for Frankenstein, John Carpenter’s Dark Star and the animated Blaxploitation parody Coonskin.

Like the movie, the soundtrack showcases a clash of different “worlds” - musically speaking, that is. Three distinct musical styles run throughout the film, each serving to set the tone for one of the primary settings: gospel in and around the church, African drumming in the Yoruba village and jazz/R&amp;B/funk in the “real world”. The music in Lord Shango is almost a character unto itself.