African Marketplace and Homecoming have been performed by everyone from Abdullah Ibrahim to Second Line Jazzband to Saxofourte. Rude Mechanical Orchestra's version is inspired by School of HONK! and Good Trouble Brass Band (formerly known as The Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society), two of the many bands who organize the HONK! Festival.
Abdullah Ibrahim, now in his late 80s, has witnessed the horrors of apartheid. He grew up in South Africa and composed what would become known as the “anti-apartheid anthem,” “Mannenberg.” Nelson Mandela called him “our Mozart.” He also successfully made music under the name Dollar Brand, and worked with jazz legends including Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Don Cherry, and Archie Shepp.
Rude Mechanical Orchestra plays African Marketplace and Homecoming in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and to end all systems of apartheid, colonialism, and genocide everywhere, including but not limited to in Palestine, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Boríken (Puerto Rico), and Turtle Island (ie. the so-called United States, where we live and operate).
Clean up sheet music uploaded -- please give feedback. Old sheet music downloaded and saved by repertoire committee.
The Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society
