Vinyl records

Johnny Clegg & Savuka vinyl records

9 albums with 137 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Savuka (based on the Zulu word for the phrase "we have arisen") was formed by Johnny Clegg in 1986 after the demise of his musical partnership with Sipho Mchunu as Juluka. Whereas Juluka were more of a local cultural curiosity and crossover project during the height of apartheid and the pair’s musical relationship was often subjected to racial abuse, threats of violence and police harassment, Savuka went one bold step further: multi-racial, of course, but they also had a political agenda. The issue of racial and social injustice, which has been at the core of so much of Johnny Clegg’s work over the years, was more prominent. Says Clegg: "Savuka was launched in the State of Emergency, 1986.