Faces to the Sun

Faces to the Sun
Album cover: An photograph of orange sunflowers under a deep blue sky streaked with whispy clouds. The artist name and album title are in gold sans-serif lettering at the top of the photo. The border of the photo is also gold.
Studio album by
Mango Groove
Released28 October 2016 (2016-10-28)
StudioOrangotang Studios
GenreAfropop
Length1:31:44
Language
LabelWarner Music South Africa
Producer
  • Andrew Baird
  • John Leyden
Mango Groove chronology
Bang the Drum
(2009) 		Faces to the Sun
(2016)

Faces to the Sun is the sixth studio album by South African Afropop band Mango Groove. Released in October 2016, Faces to the Sun is a double album with more than a dozen featured artists. The first disc comprises renditions of major South African pop songs. Lead singer Claire Johnston described the selections as "personal favourites of ours" that are about what it means to be South African.[1] The second disc features eight original songs, plus a remix of Mango Groove's cover of "Durban Road" (a song first released by the Makhona Zonke Band in 1975).

Four songs from the album were released as singles: "Faces to the Sun" was issued as a digital single in October 2015; music videos for "From the Get Go" and "Another Country" premiered in November 2016; a music video for "Kind" followed in February 2017, and one for "Under African Skies" in July 2018.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Mango Groove: Faces to the Sun—Extended Press Release and Sleeve Notes". mangogroove.co.za. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  2. ^ Abrahams, Kim (6 July 2018). "Mango Groove en Kurt Darren sing treffer saam". Huisgenoot (in Afrikaans). Retrieved 8 July 2018.