Underlying the whole album is the insistent beat of a simple drum machine, which was totally unheard of in Zambia at the time, and parallels pioneering experiments by Francis Bebey, Sly Stone, and Shuggie Otis, utilizing a technology which would later come to define dance music. The unique mix of languages on the album (Bemba, Tonga, Lozi, and English) also suggest this complex cultural crossroads. Zambian writer and musician Smokey Haangala's Aunka Ma Kwacha (The Money is Gone) released in 1976 is an example of this more mystical metallurgy, falling somewhere between psychedelic Zamrock, US folk, Kalindula, and Sundown Beat (music played after dark) from Tongaland. Then, there is another kind of median music, something more mysterious, the result of time, place, technology, and alchemy. "There is music that falls right into place, a perfectly articulated expression of a few distinct influences. Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC 24-bit/48kHz FLACĬult, super rare side of Zambian experiments in folklore and psychedelia from 1976, uncannily resonating with music by Francis Bebey and William Onyeabor as much as Ariel Pink or Panda Bear Genre: World Folk African Music Psychedelia
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