Stella Chiweshe - Ambuya! [LP]

Release date: 12th February 2021
Formats: LP
Label: Piranha Records
Catalogue Number: PIR3471LP
Barcode: LP: 0826863347119
Genre: International

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!

• High quality remaster from analog tapes
• Limited-edition pressing on 180g vinyl
• Exclusive John Peel BBC session, printed for the first time on 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

Tracklisting:
LP
A1. Chachimurenga
A2. Nehondo
A3. Njuzu
A4. Mugomba
A5. Chamakuwende
B1. Kassahwa
B2. Chipindura
B3. Ndinogarochema
B4. Sarura Wako