Smokey Haangala, Aunka Ma Kwacha  
Smokey Haangala
Aunka Ma Kwacha
CAN 1xLP 
Label: Seance Centre
Release Year: 2020
Style: Latin & Brasil & Afro
 
  Reissue of this 1976 LP from Zambia. Deep minimal African music, lovely compositions over scarce drum machines and (fuzzy) guitars.. Beautiful music with a deeper message in the lyrics which is explained better in the long review below.

Some words from the label.

There is music that falls right into place, a perfectly articulated expression of a few distinct influences. Then, there is another kind of median music, something more mysterious, the result of time, place, technology, and alchemy. Zambian writer and musician Smokey Haangala’s Aunka Ma Kwacha (The Money is Gone) released in 1976 is an example of this more mystical metallurgy, falling somewhere between psychedelic Zamrock, US folk, Kalindula, and Sundown Beat (music played after dark) from Tongaland. The unique mix of languages on the album (Bemba, Tonga, Lozi, and English) also suggest this complex cultural crossroads. Underlying the whole album is the insistent beat of a simple drum machine, which was totally unheard of in Zambia at the time, and parallels pioneering experiments by Francis Bebey, Sly Stone, and Shuggie Otis, utilizing a technology which would later come to define dance music. Then there’s the album’s original artwork by Peter Kependa, done in style similar to the infamous Jamaican dancehall illustrator Wilfred Limonious, interpreting the album’s title and primary theme; the burden of financial inequality.

In this sense the album is political, but the theme is extrapolated and explored through its impact on personal life; love, marriage, social status, and diet. The album is full of cautionary tales, folklore and references to magic, aspects of Zambian culture simultaneously mystifying and alluring to outsiders, part of what attracted Western readers to Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola’s hallucinatory Yoruba folktales. After becoming a household name in Zambia for his music, writing, and television appearances, Smokey Haangala died at the age of 38, the very week his book The Black Eye was published, abruptly ending his brilliant and ascending career. We are lucky to have his inimitable work to remember him by, Aunka Ma Kwacha resting comfortably in the pantheon of re-visionary works by Rodriguez, Kissoon Ramasar, TJ Hustler, and William Onyeabor.
 
      Wish List  
  Price: CHF 30.00   Add to Cart  
  Releases of the same artist  
  No items found ..  
  Releases of the same label  
  Abdur Razzaq / Rafiyq, The Night Of Power  
Abdur Razzaq / Rafiyq
The Night Of Power
[Seance Centre]
TIP  
CAN 1xLP  Wish List
CHF 32.00 Add To Cart
 
  Princess Demeny, New York Grief  
Princess Demeny
New York Grief
[Seance Centre]
CAN 7inch  Wish List
CHF 23.00 Restocking!
 
  Sam McClellan, Music Of The Five Elements  
Sam McClellan
Music Of The Five Elements
[Seance Centre]
CAN 1xLP  Wish List
CHF 31.00 Add To Cart
 
  Various Artists, Triangulos De Luz Y Espacios De Sombra  
Various Artists
Triangulos De Luz Y Espacios De Sombra
[Seance Centre]
CAN 2xLP  Wish List
CHF 44.00 Restocking!
 
Ash Ra Tempel
Ash Ra Tempel
[MG.ART]
Black Hole
A Time For Us
[Black Hole]
Carl Craig
Desire: The Carl Craig Story
[Planet E]
Cortex
Cortex
[Camisole]
Domu
Them Things / A Madness / Not Him Again
[2000Black]
Drakeo The Ruler
Thank You For Using GTL
[Empire ]
El Michels Affair
24 Hr Sports
[Big Crown Records]
Funtown
NAD Version
[Funtown Records]
Gene Tellem
Phantom Vibrations
[Love Injection]
Greg Foat & Forest Law
Midnight Wave
[Blue Crystal Records]
J.Robinson WhoDemSound
Good Over Evil
[WhoDemSound]
Joyfull Family
Wait A Minute EP
[Flexi Cuts]
Kapote presents
Italomania Vol. 3
[Toytonics]
L'Eclair
Cloud Drifter
[Innovative Leisure]
Larry June, 2 Chainz & The Alchemist
Life Is Beautiful
[Empire / Alc Records]
Lexx
Into The Stream
[International Feel]
Loose Joints
Tell You (Today) (Dimitri From Paris Special Version)
[DFP Vaults]
Lori Vambe
Drumgita Solo
[Strut Records]
Lori Vambe
Drumland Dreamland
[Strut Records]
Mac Demarco
Guitar
[Mac's Record Label]
Mal Waldron
Candy Girl
[Strut]
Mantra
Locked In, Locked On
[Ilian Tape]
Nad
Doble Amor
[Musica De Baleares]
Nate Mercereau, Josh Johnson, Carlos Niño
Openness Trio
[Blue Note]
NEIL ARDLEY
A SYMPHONY OF AMARANTHS
[Wah Wah Records]
Norman Connors
Mr. C
[Be With Records]
Payfone
Lunch
[Otis]
Sault
10
[Forever Living Originals]
Social Lovers
Love Come Down (Dub Mix)
[Tugboat Editions]
Stimulator Jones
Precious
[Star Creature]
Teddy Lasry
Modern Way
[Vinymatic]
Teddy Lasry / Claude Perraudin
+ ou - 8000
[Vinymatic]
Teddy Lasry, Claude Perraudin
Racing
[Vinymatic]
Teddy Pendergrass
Teddy Pendergrass - You Can't Hide from Yourself (Dimitri From Paris Super Disco Blend)
[Groovin' Recordings]
The CJP Band
You and Me and the Music (feat. Nola)
[Supa Jams]
The Sorcerers
Other Worlds and Habitats
[Ata Records]
Travis Biggs
Tibetian Serenity
[Demon Music Group]
Tweak
The Best Of Tweak
[Back To Life]
Unknown
Slick Venom 02
[SVX]
VA
Volition Cuts Vol. 1
[Efficient Space]
Wavetest
Directions
[Silum]
While My Sequencer Gently Bleeps
Last Night A Bassline Saved My Life
[Unsure]
Yaya Bey
Do It Afraid
[Drink Sum Wtr]
  1. Evidence
Unlearning Vol. 2
 
  2. Freddie Gibbs And The Alchemist
Alfredo 2
 
  3. Boldy James & V Don
Alphabet Highway
 
  4. Clipse
Let God Sort Em' Out
 
  5. Loredana Bertè, Dimitri From Paris
In Alto Mare (Remix)
 
  6. OG Florin + Melodiesinfonie
Meh Als Null Und Eis
 
  7. V Don & Willie The Kid
Catch Me If You Can 2
 
  8. Barney Keen
Harbinger
 
  9. Crimeapple
Jaguar On Palisade 3
 
  10. Doechii
Anxiety