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v/a - welcome to zamrock! vol 2: how zambia's liberation led to a rock revolution 1972-77 - now again - vinyl

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Genre: African

1. Crossbones - Really
2. Amanaz - History Of Man
3. Witch - Strange Dream
4. Rikki Ililonga - Stop Dreaming Mr D
5. Five Revolutions - Poor Man
6. Keith Mlevhu - Love & Freedom
7. Born Free - Mad Man
8. Dr Footswitch - Otenta
9. Tinkles - Mpundu
10. Salty Dog - See The Storm
11. Fire Balls - Umwana Wakusanga Mung'Anda
12. Peace - Umbwalwa Ne Chamba
13. Oscillations - Request To God
14. Musi-O-Tunya - Katonga
15. Ngozi Family - Hold On
16. Chrissy Zebby Tembo - I'm Not Made Of Iron
17. Jesper Siliya Lungu - Hot Do
18. Mike Nyoni - SM

preorder for repress By the mid-1970s, the Southern African nation known as the Republic of Zambia had fallen on hard times. Though the country’s first president Kenneth Kaunda had thrown off the yoke of British colonialism, the new federation found itself under his self-imposed, autocratic rule. Conflict loomed on all sides of this landlocked nation. Kaunda protected Zambia from war, but his country descended into isolation and poverty.

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This is the environment in which the ’70s rock revolution that has come to be known as Zamrock flourished. Fuzz guitars
were commonplace, as were driving rhythms as influenced by James Brown’s funk as Jimi Hendrix’s rock predominated.
Musical themes, mainly sung in the country’s constitutional language, English, were often bleak.
In present day Zambia, Zamrock markers were few. Only a small number of the original Zamrock godfathers that remained
in the country survived through the late ’90s. AIDS decimated this country, and uncontrollable inflation forced the Zambian
rockers that could afford to flee into something resembling exile. This was not a likely scene to survive - but it did. Welcome
To Zamrock!, presented in two volumes, is an overview of its most beloved ensembles, and a trace of its arc from its
ascension, to its fall, to its resurgence.