Now-Again Issues The Never Before Released Gate Crash '78
On RSD 2026 Includes Oversized, 8 Page Booklet That Details Paul Ngozi
And The Ngozi Family's Arc, Including Rare Photographs, Discography And
Annotation.
The lost Ngozi Family/Chissy Zebby Tembo album! Only ever test pressed and never commercially
released, Now-Again presents the ultimate Zamrock rarity and an essential entry from Zambian
guitarist and bandleader Paul Ngozi's catalog. Zamrock was a bona-fide rock scene: on the African
continent, only Nigeria can claim one so comprehensive, and Nigeria's was largely catalyzed and
funded by subsidiaries of the European major labels. Zamrock was as independent as it's newlynamed
country, formerly known as Northern Rhodesia. Zamrock is startling in it's completeness,
especially for a scene that emerged, unfurled, and disappeared so quickly. From Musi-0-Tunya's
fusion of Fela's Afro-beat, Hendrix's rock, South African jazz and traditional Zambian melodies and
rhythms to Salty Dog's acid folk/rock, Zambia's rock scene contained all of rock's subgenres. Zamrock
was much more than an imitation of American and European rock music: it quickly became a
uniquely Zambian movement, befitting of it's name. WITCH, Paul Ngozi and Amanaz sound nothing
like other rock music from the African continent-or elsewhere. Zamrock came from a nation's youth
carrying forth the momentum of a political and social revolution with a musical revolution that
maintained the fiery power of early rock-in the mid-to late-'70s. From that era, Zamrock's energy is
matched only by the Punk and Hip Hop scenes in England and America. Now-Again now issues this
never before released full-length which includes an 8 page booklet, filled with rare photos and details
on the Ngozi Family's musical journey, for Record Store Day 2026