Repress! Essential garage Zamrock/soul/funk: the first official reissue of the celebrated band’s one and only album.The musical style that became known as Zamrock came to embody the economic despair thatfollowed the 1973-1974 oil crisis, which flung Zambia into recession and exacerbated a widerange of social tensions. Much of Zamrock also captured the controversy of wider politics inAfrica and the world. Perhaps the finest example of this is Black Power by The Peace.
The Boyfriends, from Kitwes Chamboli Mine Township, supplied the founding members for Zamrock's most famous band, WITCH, and kick started one of Zamrock's best bands, Peace. Their sole Zamrock entry, Black Power, recorded at Malachite Film Studio circa 1973/4 and issued circa 1975, sounds like nothing else in the Zamrock canon: a lost message drifting from the flower power era, imbued with a fiery Zambian voice.
