Ambuya!

34 1/3 years after its first release Piranha Records reissues the groundbreaking Stella Chiweshe international debut Ambuya! on quality 180g vinyl, remastered from analog tapes, together with a bonus John Peel session from 1988. Stella Chiweshe stands as one of the most enduring and successful women activists in African music. She started playing the Mbira and performing in her motherland Zimbabwe despite all kinds of racial and male dominant mentalities of that time, setting a spectacular example of how music can cross all kinds of borders. With her album Ambuya? the Mbira finally went electric and combined the spiritual with the popular in a creative exchange with British world indie legend 3 Mustaphas 3.

Tracks

1~1~Chachimurenga
1~2~Nehondo
1~3~Njuzu
1~4~Mugomba
1~5~Chamakuwende

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Stella Chiweshe
Release Date: 12 February 2021
Genre: World Music
Label: K7/Piranha Records
Distributor: MGM Music