Ngozi Family - Heavy Connection

A hard rock mash up -
Bandleader Paul Ngozi's split album with his drummer and co-vocalist Chrissy Zebby Tembo. The set includes an oversized 8 page
booklet detailing Ngozi’s arc, rare photographs, discography and annotations. "Zambia’s Zamrock movement that exploded in the
1970s...provided young musicians access to European and American music, and created a unique sound. At its root, Zamrock melded
fuzz-toned psychedelia, chugging garage rock and roiling funk with a broad mix of African cadences and beats...enlivening a scene that
included bands like Musi-O-Tunya, Amanaz and the Ngozi Family” – NY Times. 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
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European major labels. Zamrock was as independent as the newly-named country, formerly known as Northern Rhodesia. Zamrock is
starting in its completeness, especially for a scene that emerged, unfurled and disappeared so quickly. From Musi-O-Tunyaís 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 ís energy is matched only by the punk and hip-hop scenes of England and America