Chiweshe,Stella - Ambuya! (Reissue) (Sealed) (LP)

33 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, a message that is perfectly aligned with our core values as a record label. 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. Thrilled to have, and still be, teamed up with such a pioneering artist, we feel like time spins like an album: our mbira-meetstapha kick-off of 1987 still lives and rotates with Piranha Records in 2021. Ambuya? Ambuya! VINYL TRACKLISTING SIDE A 01 Chachimurenga 02 Nehondo 03 Njuzu 04 Mugomba 05 Chamakuwende SIDE B 01 Kassahwa 02 Chipindura 03 Ndinogarochema 04 Sarura Wako "Njuzu" (Audio) https://youtu.be/qUMPNCmQBZg KEY SELLING POINTS • High quality remaster from analog tapes • Limited-edition pressing on 180g vinyl • Exclusive John Peel BBC session, printed for the first timeon vinyl • One of the first recordings where Mbira went electric • First female artist who gained prestige in a music tradition that has been dominated by men: in Mbira music FORMAT Vinyl incl. high quality download & bonus tracks PACKAGING Full color LP, 180g WEBLINKS www.piranha.de