The Kalahari Surfers is the moniker of South African composer and musician Warrick Sony. It began as a solo recording project in the early 1980s to subvert the total media and propaganda onslaught of P. W. Botha’s Apartheid South Africa. With guest musicians, the Kalahari Surfers recorded five albums, toured Europe and played concerts in East Berlin, Moscow, Riga and Leningrad.
The Kalahari Surfers began with a home recorded cassette release in 1...
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The Kalahari Surfers is the moniker of South African composer and musician Warrick Sony. It began as a solo recording project in the early 1980s to subvert the total media and propaganda onslaught of P. W. Botha’s Apartheid South Africa. With guest musicians, the Kalahari Surfers recorded five albums, toured Europe and played concerts in East Berlin, Moscow, Riga and Leningrad.
The Kalahari Surfers began with a home recorded cassette release in 1981, and built a reputation as being one of the most politically radical musical forces in South Africa. Their second release was a double single package released by Pure Freude Records. German group Can were involved with this label and, along with other krautrock bands, were an important influence on the Surfers sound at this time. Shifty Records tried to release their 1982 release album Own Affairs but could not find a vinyl pressing plant who would do it. The reasons given by EMI were that it was "too political".
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