The Blue Heads - Featuring the Music of Gerard Sekoto CD

The cd was published by the Gerard Sekoto Foundation to honour Sekoto's musical talents and to share his creative abilities with his admirers. The songs were composed in the early 50's onwards, and he performed these songs whilst he worked in Pairs nightclubs and bars during the 50-60's. Some of the manuscripts were published in France.

The trustees of the Gerard Sekoto Foundation decided to put together a group of talented musicians to form a band to record the Sekoto songs thus making them accessible to the public. The Band was named THE BLUE HEADS to acknowledge a series of portraits painted by Sekoto in the early 60's and colloquially known as The Blue Head period. It appears this body of work was inspired by an article that appeared in Time Magazine in Feb 1960 featuring the South African singer, Miriam Makeba. Sekoto made a ballpoint drawing simply entitled Miriam Makeba 1960. Within the same year Sekoto had begun to create paintings of strongly delineated women, depicted in a minimalistic palette of blues creams and browns.

6007689731137

SLCD 083

Sheer Sound, 2004

South Africa

Good condition

C05