repress 2023 - issued in 1975, this is the articulation of zambia’s zamrock ethos. while other albums - rikki ililonga’s zambia, witch’s lazy bones!! - are competitors, it’s hard to best this album as it covers each major quadrant of the zamrock whole: it came from the mines, its musicians were anti-colonial freedom fighters, it envelops zambian folk music traditions, and it rocks - hard

repressed! how zambia’s liberation led to a rock revolution. 1972-1977

repressed! how zambias liberation led to a rock revolution. 1972-1977