Zambia, by Rikki Ililonga

Zambia

by Rikki Ililonga

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𓂀_The_Bandcamper_Whose_Name_Is_A_Symbol 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄...Awesome, awesome stuff ! I can't imagine anything better ! Woo !!! Favorite track: Sheebeen Queen.

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Archival reproduction of Zamrock godfather Rikki lilonga's debut (1975).

".. loose, woozy African spinoff of the Velvet Underground, folk-rock and garage-rock that still didn't stint on the fuzz-tone." - The New York Times

The first album by the legendary Musi-O-Tunya founder/guitarist Rikki Ililonga, as inspried by James Brown as Jimi Hendrix, by Taj Majal as Velvet Underground.

A wholly unique experience, and one of the first solo artist albums issued in Zambia.

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Zamrock archival reissue! Out of print since 2012, now on smoke colored vinyl.

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1.	Sansa Kuwa 04:34	buy track
2.	Sheebeen Queen 04:56	buy track
3.	Stop Dreaming Mr. D 03:31	buy track
4.	The Hole 04:44	buy track
5.	Hot Fingers 04:12	buy track
6.	Se Keel Me Queek 04:55	buy track
7.	The Nature Of Man 03:53	buy track
8.	Musamuseka 02:58	buy track
9.	Zambia 03:18	buy track
10.	The Queen Blues 04:47	buy track

about

Zamrock was a bona-fide rock scene: on the African continent, only Nigeria can claim one so comprehensive, and Nigeria's was largely catalyzed and funded by subsidiaries of the European major labels. Zamrock was as independent as its newly-named country, formerly known as Northern Rhodesia.

Zamrock is startling in its completeness, especially for a scene that emerged, unfurled, and disappeared so quickly. From Musi-O-Tunya's fusion of Fela's Afro-beat, Hendrix's rock, South African jazz and traditional Zambian melodies and rhythms to Salty Dog's acid folk/rock, Zambia's rock scene contained all of rock's subgenres.

Zamrock was much more than an imitation of American and European rock music: it quickly became a uniquely Zambian movement, befitting of its name.
WITCH, Paul Ngozi and Amanaz sound nothing like other rock music from the African continent - or elsewhere.

Zamrock came from a nation's youth carrying forth the momentum of a political and social revolution with a musical revolution that maintained the fiery power of early rock - in the mid- to late-'70s. From that era, Zamrock's energy is matched only by the punk and hip hop scenes of England and America.

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released July 20, 2023

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