TRACKLIST
A-SIDE: BORN FREE - MY OWN THING
A1. I Don’t Know
A2. Come Back To Me
A3. My Dear Girl
A4. Messed Day
A5. Mad Man
A6. Mwana
B-SIDE: MIKE NYONI - MY OWN THING
B1. S.M.
B2. My Own Thing (Nyoni’s Thing)
B3. Coming Home
B4. It’s Only A Dream
B5. Soweto
DESCRIPTION
Anthology of Zamrock musician Mike Nyoni’s funky, psych-rock and folkloric 1970s recordings
Zambian guitarist and singer/songwriter Mike Nyoni’s music is Zamrock only because he came of age during the countryís rock revolution. He preferred wah-wah to fuzz guitar, James Brown to Jimi Hendrix. His 70s recordings - often politically charged, and ranging from despondent
to exuberant - are amongst the funkiest on the African continent.
He was also one of the only Zamrock musicians to see his music contemporaneously issued in Europe.
This anthology collates works from his three 70s LPs - his first, with the Born Free band, and his two solo albums Kawalala and I Can’t Understand You - and presents a singular Zambian musician on par with celebrated artists Rikki Ililonga, Keith Mlevhu and Paul Ngozi.