Subject of this double compilation album from the compilers of the 'Next Stop... Soweto' series is South African drummer and percussionist Julian Bahula, who introduced the traditional Venda drums (The Venda are a Southern African people living mostly near the South African-Zimbabwean border. Drums are central in Venda culture and there are legends and symbols linked to them. Most sets of drums, made of baobab wood, are kept in the homes of chiefs and headmen, and comprise one ngoma, a large kettle-shaped drum played with a stick, one thungwa, the smaller version of the ngoma, and two or three murumbas, a conical drum held between the knees and like a djembe played by hand.) in the jazz genre, thus laying the foundation of what we now know as kwela. Bahula's first band was Malombo, led by jazz guitarist Philip Tabane. After the departure of Tabane, Julian renamed the band Malombo Jazz Makers. A politically inspired individual, in 1971 Julian Bahula took part in a clandestine tour with Steve Biko (Stephen Bantu Biko, December 18th 1946 - September 12th 1977, was a student leader, anti-apartheid activist and founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in the South Africa of the nineteen sixties and seventies.) and TECON (The Theatre Council Of Natal was one of a number of cultural organizations affiliated with the Black Consciousness Movement and one of the most important protest theatre groups in the South Africa of the nineteen seventies. TECON was eventually forced to its knees by a combination of arrests, confiscation of material and harassment.) using music and theatre to promote and spread the message of Biko's Black Consciousness Movement (anti-apartheid movement which emerged in the South Africa of the mid nineteen sixties from the political vacuum created by the detention and expulsion of the leadership of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress after the Sharpeville massacre of 1960.). The apartheid regime soon started to make Julian's life difficult, eventually forcing him to flee the country. In 1973 he arrived in London where together with band mate Lucky Ranku he founded Jabula. Interesting anecdote: With his wife Liza Julian organized African Sounds, in 1983 the first concert in the United Kingdom focusing on the situation of Nelson Mandela (who was then still being held captive in Pollsmoor Prison). Jerry Dammers, founding member of The Specials, was also present that night and claims it was the Jabula song 'Mandela' which inspired him to write 'Nelson Mandela', the later world hit for The Special AKA.