Philadelphia Freedom

The reason I made this purchase, was because I have sentimental attachments to The Sounds of Philadelphia; especially the haunting tenor saxophone of their orchestral backing. I have the LP version, but my record player is not connected to my equipment. My stereo system is all over the place. No time to fix it! I presume the digital recording of CD's has a better quality sound than the analog recording, maybe not! But, my favourite killer tracks are "Philadelphia Freedom" itself and "Ferry Avenue".

When I was courting my wife, I use to have the eight track in my car, I would play it over and over again untiringly, until it soaked in my veins and we both enjoyed it very much. Come Saturday night, we drove to friends and partied all the way and it was a weekend blast. Then, I owned a VW Beetle 1969 model this was my 1st car. I was 23 years old and Love was in the air music was the message.

So, this experience rather takes me back in the days of Love & Peace era. But above all I think Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff have done us proud and were my most influential and exceptional music producers and composers of our time, still is today. I want to believe, they played a good moral part in influecing my musical taste and listening preferences of modern day music.

The track "South Philly" is even more romantic and reminds me of a place I have never been to, maybe paradise is the place. I can go on and on about MFBS, they truly rock. I am surprised we don't seems to have bands like they used to in the 80's? I love the CD to death. Those who followed MFSB or Gamble & Huff during the good old days - of Old School Music will know what I am talking about! Those were the worst of times but the best LOVE could offer to our families and communities. This Music offered solace and freedom to enjoy a good Sunday afternoon in the park.

America was also going through hard times, there was political turmoil and discrimination, racism of unthinkable proportions. I was a Freedom fighter in South Africa battling my demons with Apartheid. This music soothed our agony, but nourished our hopes yet, fueled our struggle to conquer fear as we danced our way to the liberating sounds of MBFS.

Was this a coincident that Freedom & Love would live under the same roof while cross paths at the same time, on the same line, under the same light, in the same room? I wouldn't tell, but what I know is that Love was stronger than War and Peace was ushered through the music of TSOP i.e. The Sounds of Philadelphia, while compliments kept raining from Tamla Motown music alternately. This CD takes me deep into the threshold and womb of time. It is my best of love experieinces...

What else can I say? It is breath-taking after so many, many years. By the way my 8 track music machine was lost in space. The cover photo background of this CD says it all, but "The Zip" bouncy track seals the deal and puts a nail on the coffin.

Life Motivation

Life is full of happiness and sorrow
Do your best to be successful
It is full of challenges that can make things to happen
Be yourself and enjoy it to the fullest
Success is there for everyone
Life is a journey that needs respect always
You need to set goals to challenge yourself  
You need to create action and attitude
Don't wait for opportunities to come to you
Live once to be successful and achieve to grow, develop experience

Portia Mnisi

Artists for Life

Mzwandile the musician from Pimville

 

If you like what you hear please share this video with friends and family. This guy needs exposure and he loves music. By the way he teaches gospel music theory and practicals at his church in Pimville. Her daughters are amazing musicians at the ages of 9, 12, and 16 they play violins and cellos.

Consumer Complaint! Albany Bread

Hi

Please forward this to the correct department as I could only find one email address on the website, please accept my apologies

On Sunday the 31/07/2011 I bought two loaves of white Albany Bread the expiry date on the plastic stated 03/08/2011 (Please see attached pics), one was the Albany Best Of Both and the other was just the normal white bread. Monday morning the 01/08/2011 I prepared lunch for my family using the Albany Best Of Both the next morning which was Tuesday 02/08/2011 I used the remaining Albany Best Of Both and as I was taking out the slices I saw “Blue” stuff on the crust and I threw it away in the dustbin, not thinking anything of it at the time. I continued using the bread and I saw that this “Blue” stuff was in more of my bread, I immediately called my husband showed him the bread and told him that I will bring it to work and call Albany, I also asked him totake pictures using his cell phone.

I brought the bread to work showed it to my colleagues and they were disgusted the same way I was when I saw the “Blue Item/Object” in my bread. One of my colleagues called the manager at Tiger Brands informed her of the “Blue Item/Object” in the bread and arranged for someone from Albany to come and pick the bread up from our offices. The sales rep from Albany came to our offices to collect the bread.

I received a call on Tuesday at about 11h30 from the manager in the complainst department, and she informed me that thay have received the bread and and will investigate and that was the last call. On Wednesday morning I called back requesting feedback since I only heard from them Tuesdy at 11h30, Hloni was not available and I left a message for her to call me back, she called me back and informed me that they are still investigating and that normally an investigation takes about 1 to 2 weeks but she has requested that this matter needed urgent attention, I said to her since she requested urgent attention to my complaint I will give her a call on Friday the 05/08/2011 for feedback and she agreed.

I received a call from her yesterday, Thursday 04/08/2011 after 15h00 and she said to me that she has feed back and she started thanking me for bring the matter to their attention, she apologised for the inconvenience of the “Blue Pipe” in the bread as she called it and wanted to confirm my address so that she could send my R200.00 worth of vouchers so that I could buy more “Albany Bread.”

At no point did she explain to me what that “Blue Pipe” was in the bread, she did not explain to me how did it get there, she did not explain to me what they will do in future to prevent it from happening again. For all I know that “Blue Pipe/Object” that I found in my bread could be harmful to my family.

My concern is that we ate that bread, my kids ate that bread (aged 3, 10 and 14) I am terrified; I don’t know what that “Blue Item/Object” is in the bread. I have attached pictures of the bread the way I found it.

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I just thought that I would like to inform the public of what is happening out there in the world and that not even the bread we eat every single day of our lives are safe, this is the very same bread that our kids eat. So you ask yourself, What should I eat now if not even our bread is safe.

Please help me put this out there for the world to see.

Thanks

Natasha