Gary Bartz always transports political messages with his funky Spiritual Jazz.

This is also explicitly stated on the back cover of this fantastic LP from 1974, with a quote from Amilcar Cabral (featuring a small spelling mistake in the first name ‘Amicar’), the father of the independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde and one of Africa’s foremost anti-colonial leaders.

It says ‘Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told.’ This is even more true today and can be heard and felt in every note, every groove of the Ntu Troop.

Stefan Mohr