Voëlvry. Afrikaanse Musiek Vir Vandag

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Release Date: 1988

Label: Shifty Records

Unique South African compilation release of the best in Alternative Afrikaans Music just before the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of Apartheid in South Africa

Voëlvry was the Boere-Woodstock,’ writes Max du Preez. ‘It was a significant movement in every social, political, cultural and musical sense of the word … “Rock revolution” just got a delicious new double meaning.’

In what the Cape Times described as ‘an unprecedented orgy of Afrikaner anarchy’, the Alternative Afrikaans Music Movement unleashed Boere Beatlemania among the youth and apoplexy within the Afrikaner establishment. At a time when South Africa was embroiled in the Border wars, PW Botha was Die Groot Krokodil and Potchefstroom University was debating whether dancing was a sin, an eccentric mix of young Afrikaans artists took to the road and became the voice of their generation.

Available on Cassette: ZSHB 29 (Printed on back of sleeve).