Charles Hilton Brown is an American soul singer who briefly sang with the Four Kents before issuing two singles on Durium in 1971/72. In 1974, he collaborated with the South African band Assagai for the album Owed to Myself, released on Ampex Records. Background Charles Hilton Brown entered music as an American serviceman stationed at […]
Assagai was a London-based Afro-rock quintet comprised of three South African and two Ghanaian musicians. The band released two albums, both in 1971, on the Vertigo “swirl” label. Members included Blue Notes mainstays Dudu Pukwana, Louis Moholo, and Mongezi Feza, all concurrent players in Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath. Assagai’s self-titled debut begins with “Telephone […]
