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My Own Thing

by Mike Nyoni & Born Free

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    Double album, with bonus 2nd LP available to Bandcamp purchasers, packaged in a gatefold sleeve w/ OBI and resealable plastic bag. Contains an oversized booklet that contains Mike Nyoni's incredible story and the story behind these recordings, including many previously unpublished photographs.

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1.
Born Free - I Don't Know 04:28
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2.
Born Free - Come Back To Me 04:46
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3.
Born Free - My Dear Girl 03:09
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4.
Born Free - Messed Day 04:17
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Born Free - Mad man 02:36
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Born Free - Mwana 04:24
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Born Free - Funky 04:25
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8.
Born Free - Promotion 03:03
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Born Free - E Zambia 03:13
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10.
Born Free - Namwali 04:12
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11.
Born Free - Mukaziwa Chingoni 03:52
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12.
Mike Nyoni - S.M. 04:14
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13.
Mike Nyoni - My Own Thing (Nyoni's Thing) 05:42
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14.
Mike Nyoni - Coming Home 04:51
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15.
Mike Nyoni - It's Only A Dream 03:59
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16.
Mike Nyoni - Soweto 04:09
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17.
Mike Nyoni - Kawalala 03:56
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18.
Mike Nyoni - Give Me A Chance 04:18
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19.
Mike Nyoni - Amida 04:32
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20.
Mike Nyoni - Highway 04:01
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21.
Mike Nyoni - Africa 03:14
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22.
Mike Nyoni - Chikwati Chata 03:09
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about

Zamrock musician Mike Nyoni and Born Free’s – My Own Thing: some of the funkiest music issued on the African continent in the 1970s. Bonus 2nd LP contains the groovy genesis of the Kalindula music Nyoni would master in the 80s…

Zambian guitarist and singer/songwriter Mike Nyoni’s music is Zamrock only because he came of age during the country’s rock revolution. His preferred wah-wah to fuzz guitar, James Brown to Jimi Hendrix. His 70s recordings – often politically charged, and ranging from despondent to exuberant – are amongst the funkiest on the African continent. He was also one of the only Zamrock musicians to see his music contemporaneously issued in Europe.

This anthology collates works from his three 70s LPs – his first, with the Born Free band, and his two solo albums Kawalala and I Can’t Understand You – and presents a singular Zambian musician on par with celebrated artists Rikki Ililonga, Keith Mlevhu and Paul Ngozi.

credits

released January 23, 2023

Born Free – Mukaziwa Chingoi (Promotion)
Personnel: Mike Nyoni (Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals); Joseph Musonda (Rhythm
Guitar, Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals); Peter Lungu (Drums).

Taken from the Mukaziwa Chingoi (Promotion) LP, originally released in 1975 on
Zambia Music Parlour, ZMPL11. Recorded at DB Studio, Lusaka, Zambia in
1975 by unknown engineer.

Produced by Born Free and Emmanuel Mulemena; directed by Edward
Khuzyawo; production arrangements by Billie David Nyati.

Mike Nyoni – Kawalala

Personnel: Mike Nyoni (Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Vocals); Lawrence
Chindefu (Bass Guitar); Tamrat Kebedle (Drums).

Taken from the Kawalala LP, originally released 1977 on Chris Editions, CL
003. Recorded at Sapra Studio, March 1977, by unknown engineer.

Produced by Mike Nyoni and Chris Siwila Ndhlovu.

Mike Nyoni – I Can’t Understand You

Personnel: Mike Nyoni (Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals); unknown remaining
personnel.

Taken from the I Can’t Understand You LP, originally released circa 1978 on
Chris Editions, CL 012. Recorded at unknown studio, circa 1978 by George
Fombe. Later issued on Reprise France 99 015, in association with A.I.T
Records, Kenya.

Produced by Mike Nyoni and Chris Siwila Ndhlovu.

This anthology produced by Eothen Alapatt.
Restored and remastered by Jason Bitner at Traffic Entertainment Group,
Boston.
Lacquered by Chris Potter at Electric Mastering, London.
Art Direction by Errol Richardson.
Licensed courtesy Magrete Nyoni.
Special thanks to Rikki Ililonga.

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Now-Again Records is the imprint founded by Eothen Alapatt 2002. He oversees all of the label’s reissues and manages a vast catalog of music from the 1950s through the present day, with a focus on the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s.

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