I woke up one morning in July...

I received an email today from Exiled Records saying that they had just got the African Psychedelic obscuro classic Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family - My Ancestors back in stock after being out of print for a year. Originally released in 1974, this album has been hailed by collectors as one of the finest fuzz-psych albums to emerge from Africa. Recent reissues of the album began surfacing on eBay demanding $100-200 dolllars (for a reissue!). So when Lindsey at Exiled Records emailed me, I decided to swoop by on my lunch break to score this album. I would often talk to both Lindsey and Scott about how I had wanted the album and that they should email if ever a used copy would surface. The one I purchased appears to be an altogether different pressing, demanding a higher price tag.

About the music... The album is layered in fuzzed out guitars reminiscent of (in my mind) the Count Five in a lot of respects. Cheery vocal me

lodies sung in an African accent with great psychedelic guitar noodling. The track "Oh Yeh Yeh" from this album appeared on the African Psych compilation put out by Shadoks (label) Love, Peace and Poetry: African Psych. The label has made other entries in the series including a Turkish, Japanese, Mexican, South American and American obscure psych reissues. All of them are pretty exceptional, but being the enthusiast that I am, I can't help but track down the actual full length albums of these artists featured on these comps.

Another fantastic album I purchased in the last

3 months also an African psych album is by The Peace - Black Power. Similar fuzzed out african psych with garage rock compositions. Songs also consist of minimal drums like the Zebby Tembo record, providing the album with a very

primal rock feel. The album artwork is fucking astonishing. Some say this group originates from Zambia, which I have read is a quite place that not many would consider the starting point for a psych/rock/funk group. It's been said that the band members formed while enlisted in the Zambian Air Force sometime in the early 1970's.