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'''''Scatterlings''''' is a studio album by Juluka, a South African band led by Johnny Clegg and Sipho Mchunu.<ref>{{cite news |title=Pop's African Roots |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/10/28/pops-african-roots/210db127-c66d-4729-b9f4-c28b62f3b63e/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=19 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Morse |first1=Steve |title=REVIEW / MUSIC: JULUKA SINGS ITS PEACE |work=The Boston Globe |date=12 Nov 1983 |location=Arts |page=1}}</ref> It was released in 1982.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20140320/News/605178158|title=Ladysmith and Clegg hit town|website=Sarasota Herald-Tribune}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1985-11-15-8502210249-story.html|title=BYPASSED RECORDINGS MERIT A SECOND LOOK|first=Scott|last=Benarde|website=Sun-Sentinel.com}}</ref> The album contains "Scatterlings of Africa", arguably the band's biggest hit, which would be re-recorded to more international success by Juluka's successor band, Savuka.

==Background and composition== Johnny Clegg stated after the album's release that Juluka had written it with the intent of making it appeal to an audience outside South Africa. The album's lyrics, and the title track "Scatterlings of Africa" in particular include themes of African identity and humanity's shared African heritage. Several songs included political themes: "Siyayilanda" (translated figuratively to "we are seizing the future") for example, was written for Neil Aggett, an anti-apartheid activist and Clegg's friend, who had died in February 1982 in South African Police Service custody after being tortured.<ref name="Pithouse"/>

==Release and reception== ''Scatterlings'' was released in September 1982.<ref name="Pithouse">{{cite book | first = Richard | last = Pithouse | chapter =Johnny Clegg and the Poetry and Politics of Migrant Labour | editor-last1=Drewett | editor-first1=Michael | editor-last2=Spini | editor-first2=Lucilla | title=Johnny Clegg: Critical Reflections on His Music and Influence | publisher=NYU Press | date=2025 | isbn=978-1-77614-964-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=WQuOEQAAQBAJ | pages=83-112}}</ref> Robert Christgau wrote that "being a folkie in South Africa takes a lot more guts than it does in liberal societies, and that's audible all over this album—as are the melodic resources of the Zulu tradition, which happen to be vocal rather than percussive."<ref name="auto"/> ''The Globe and Mail'' wrote that "the music is an unusual and immensely attractive hybrid of tuneful late sixties English folk (in the Fairport Convention, Renaissance mode) with African rhythms."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lacey |first1=Liam |title=INSIDE THE SLEEVE POP Scatterlings Of Africa Juluka |work=The Globe and Mail |date=23 July 1983 |page=F6}}</ref> ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' thought that the band members "are to African music what Crosby, Stills & Nash are to American—namely, wimpy, sappy and awful."<ref name=PI/> Scholar Richard Pithouse wrote that it was a "superb album with powerfully honed lyrics [and] a compelling rock influence", though he noted that the popularity of "Scatterlings of Africa" overshadowed the rest of the album to some degree.<ref name="Pithouse"/>

==Track listing==

===Original South African Vinyl Release=== # "Siyayilanda" <small>(Clegg)</small> – 3:43 # "Kwela Man" <small>(Clegg)</small> – 3:54 # "Simple Things" <small>(Clegg, Mchunu)</small> – 3:57 # "iJwanasibeki" <small>(Clegg)</small> – 4:50 # "Two Humans on the Run" <small>(Clegg)</small> – 4:41 # "Scatterlings of Africa" <small>(Clegg)</small> – 5:50 # "Spirit is the Journey" <small>(Clegg, Mchunu)</small> – 4:40 # "Digging for Some Words" <small>(Clegg)</small> – 4:12 # "Shake My Way" <small>(Mchunu)</small> – 3:43 # "Mad Dog" <small>(Clegg)</small> – 3:29

===International Release=== # "Scatterlings of Africa" # "Spirit is the Journey" # "Umbaqanga Music" # "Digging for Some Words" # "Shake My Way" # "Siyayilanda" # "Kwela Man" # "Simple Things" # "iJwanasibeki" # "Two Humans on the Run"

===Re-issue=== # "Siyayilanda" - 3:57 # "Kwela Man" - 3:53 # "Simple Things" - 4:12 # "iJwanasibeki" - 4:49 # "Two Humans on the Run" - 4:38 # "Scatterlings of Africa" - 5:33 # "Spirit is the Journey" - 4:38 # "Digging for Some Words" - 4:10 # "Shake my Way" - 3:41 # "Mad Dog" - 4:25

==Personnel== * Johnny Clegg - vocals, guitar * Sipho Mchunu - guitar, percussion, vocals * Gary Van Zyl - bass guitar, percussion, vocals * Zola Mtiya - drums, percussion, vocals * Tim Hoare - keyboards, vocals * Scorpion Madondo - flute, vocals

;Additional personnel * Mike Faure - saxophone <small>(on "Simple Things" and "Spirit is the Journey")</small> * Mike Makhalemele - saxophone <small>(on "Siyayilanda")</small> * Glenda Millar - keyboards, synthesisers <small>(on "Umbaqanga Music")</small>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.folklib.net/uwp/wrp_juluka.shtml Juluka discography, accessed May 14, 2006]

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