“In the days before World Music, the Music of Africa series of 10 LPs, recorded in Africa and introduced by Hugh Tracey, were one of the few ways the general listener might encounter African music. A charismatic Englishman, Tracey was the great pioneer in the recording and study of Africa’s traditional sounds. But, throughout the surge of international interest in African music in the Eighties and the world-music boom that followed, Tracey’s name was barely mentioned. Not only did his ethnographic approach seem antiquated, Tracey himself was an embarrassment – a colonial figure who had distorted the music for his own purposes and allowed himself to become a tool of apartheid.” – The Telegraph (UK)