Out Now: Musi-O-Tunya “Give Love To Your Children” – Grab a Free mP3!

Funk, Psych-Rock, and Fuzz-Guitar-lead Afrobeat from Zambia’s groundbreaking band. Contains extensive booklet with liner notes, an exclusive interview with drummer Brian Chengala and guitarists Rikki Ilionga and Wayne Barnes, photos and ephemera. Limited deluxe edition LP contains bonus disc with rare 7” tracks, never reissued on vinyl. Out now!

Finally! The legendary Zamrock band’s second album and rare 7” tracks presented a an album. We can only describe Give Love To Your Children as a medley of Funk, Psych-Rock, and Fuzz-Guitar-lead Afrobeat from this groundbreaking Zambian band. As you’ll read in our extensive booklet this album follows Now-Again’s first foray into the Zamrock genre, Rikki Ililonga and Musi-O-Tuyna’s Dark Sunrise.

Dark Sunrise hadn’t even entered production when we became aware of Musi-O-Tunya’s post-Ililonga trajectory, and its uniqueness in the Zamrock landscape. It is the corollary to Ililonga’s story. And now, that story can be told, and the music can be heard, thanks to the participation of Ililonga, Chengala and Barnes, who color the creation and release of Give Love To Your Children. This album’s grooves hold the last, sustained shouts from one of the first Zamrock ensembles: Musi-O-Tunya exploded at the height of the Zamrock movement, scattering its members everywhere, with only this last, fiery artifact to remember them by.

Download a track from the album below.

Download: Musi-O-Tunya “When I’m Gone”
Buy: Musi-O-Tunya Give Love To Your Children on Rappcats.
If you missed it: Rikki Ililonga and Musi-O-Tunya Dark Sunrise.

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Musi-O-Tunya – Give Love To Your Children

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Original sessions produced by: Musi-O-Tunya. This reissue produced, and with liner notes by, Eothen “Egon” Alapatt.
Licensed courtesy Brian Chengala and Rikki Ililonga obo Musi-O-Tunya.
Restoration and remastering by Dave Cooley for Elysian Masters, Los Angeles.
Art direction by Errol Richardson.

Tracklist:

CD:
1. Give Love To Your Children
2. Sunkha
3. Starving Child
4. Ayeye
5. Njala
6. Katonga
7. When I’m Gone
8. Bashi Mwana
9. My Baby
10. Mwana Osauka
11. Musi-O-Tunya (bonus track) *
12. Thunderman (bonus track) *

LP:

Side A:

1. Give Love To Your Children
2. Sunkha
3. Starving Child
4. Ayeye
5. Njala

Side B:

6. Katonga
7. When I’m Gone
8. Bashi Mwana
9. My Baby
10. Mwana Osauka

Side C (Bonus):

11. Musi-O-Tunya
12. Thunderman
13. Jekete Yamakowa Pt. 1
14. Jekete Yamakowa Pt. 2
15. Chalo Chawama

Side D (Bonus):

16, Tsegulani
17. Ng’ombe Shala
18. Mpulula
19. Smoke

LP, CD and Digital. 2014. NA5109 (Deluxe LP verion NA4109).