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Zamrock

Stones Throw affiliate Egon started a label a while back called Now-Again records and has been putting out a consistent string of releases that we have overlooked for sometime. They recently started licensing albums from Zambia’s 70s “Zamrock” scene in conjunction with Zamrock pioneer Rikki Ililonga. Starting with the seminal bands Witch and Amanaz, Now-Again has begun the process of bringing to new light a collection of albums that were heavily influential to many US and British rock bands. Anyways the story of Zamrock is really interesting and you should read more about it here and if you need some persuading, just give a listen to the samples below. The first lines of Witch’s ‘Strange Dream’ are pretty amazing and seem super far away from my current reality – which makes it that much more interesting.

Witch – Strange Dream(From Lazy Bones)
manaz – Khala My Friend (From Africa)

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 12:00 am by Jesse and is filed under 70's Rock, Africa, Zamrock. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

14 Responses to “Zamrock”

  1. calen Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 2:26 am

    fuck, so good, such a tease, any chance of getting the full versions?

  2. jesse Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 11:42 am

    Oops.. I’m really sorry. I have been having some problems with my ftp not uploading things all the way. Just fixed it up. Should be fine now.

    Thanks
    Jesse

  3. calen Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    still buggered….or is it just me?

  4. jesse Says:
    March 12th, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    I think you’re right. I fixed it yesterday and it messed up again. I’ll look into it tonight and you hopefully when you check back it should be fixed.

    You can also download it from here:
    http://www.nowagainrecords.com/amanaz-and-witch-for-sale/

  5. tom Says:
    March 12th, 2010 at 10:14 pm

    freakin amazing. thanks so much

  6. calen Says:
    March 12th, 2010 at 11:15 pm

    awesome, thanks for the link

  7. Kristleifur Daðason Says:
    March 19th, 2010 at 1:49 pm

    Very very beautiful.

    There seems to be one thing in African music that always makes me come back to it: The humility.

    Have you seen the somewhat Africocentric music blog No Condition is Permanent? It’s an absolute treasure. http://permanentcondition.blogspot.com/

  8. Jesse Says:
    March 22nd, 2010 at 10:06 am

    should be fixed up now.. sorry for the lag.

  9. Jesse Says:
    March 23rd, 2010 at 7:11 pm

    Whoa.. that link is great. thanks!

  10. Mark Says:
    April 3rd, 2010 at 10:37 am

    This is killer. I’ve got some solid African jams I’ll post up when I get to posting again.

  11. Ian Says:
    May 24th, 2010 at 6:01 pm

    Hello!

    I’ve been searching many sites, and i’ve been unable to find any downloadable Zamrock. If you could provide some info on where i can get Zamrock, i would greatly appreciate it.

  12. younggolfjedi Says:
    June 4th, 2010 at 1:38 pm

    ^ -the internet, yo. youve got to be up on google like fat on al roker

  13. al_roker Says:
    January 14th, 2011 at 10:42 pm

    ^ -no need for fat jokes golf jedi master

    just imagine if they had access to a little better gear. or some time in a quality european recording studio. this record is great. well worth buying to play for clueless rockers at parties. also get lazy bones by the witch.
    WeIntendToCauseHavoc. fuzzy.

  14. paul banda Says:
    April 8th, 2011 at 3:54 am

    fellas ine nifunako ali nama albums ya Witch introductions na Tinkles Chalo Kuwama.

    Paul

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