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Ladysmith Black Mambazo arguably were bought to the attention of the wider world in 1986 when the sound of Paul Simon’s internationally acclaimed album Graceland was heard by an audience willing, desperate to investigate the muscle of music from a country and its indigenous people who had long been in the shade of popular recording; and yet as the listener takes in the beauty and exuberance of Thokozile Collective’s seriously cool self-titled debut album, that sound from the sizzling memory of Africa once lauded, marks a return to the ears as the U.K. based sextet roar into action with a Jazz beat legacy intact.