I was foiled by this for awhile, because I did not realize that this was issued in South Africa with the title Tshiketa and appeared on streaming services that way. So I went for years wanting to hear it, and only playing select tracks I could find. The cover of that release is very similar and looks like this:
Basically the same cover, with a different color border, so I probably should have figured this out sooner. I have the US release on Shanachie vinyl from the late 1980's. They also re-issued it a few years later, still in the late 1980's, on CD. I was unable to find that for a decent price, and nothing appears to have been done with it sonically, so, an early-period CD transfer. Normally I do not buy those, and will also normally not get the original vinyl in that case, but since it was essentially a contemporaneous "re-issue," I made an exception. I also made an exception and bought a cutout, because it was available sealed for a very fair price. Very nearly 8.5 (high A-). It's times like this I'm tempted to use quarter-point grades, so I could give this an 8.25, but I really think that's putting too fine a point on it in almost all cases, and so just muddies the water overall.
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