amanaz, biscuit, XXL 27"p2p, 30"s2h, 32"c2c
Manchester’s Piccadilly Records annual end of year review is like the best early Christmas present. Staff vote for their favourite new releases of the year and they produce a fantastic top 100. If you are a saddo like me it’s great to count how many you own and feel smug. It’s turned me onto so many new records. In the review they also do that’s years best reissues. A good few years back in that top 10 was a record I’d never heard of by a band from Zambia called Amanaz. Their only full length album the record was called Africa and it was released in 1975. It’s absolutely stunning. The sound is a bit garagey but also perfect pop. No fillers at all. Tracks like Big Enough, Making the Scene, Khala my Friend are all fantastic. From this I began listening to more Zamrock and then I discovered Analogue Africa and became slightly addicted by their releases. The rhythms, sophistication and grooves of mostly West African music. It’s where it all started. The blues, jazz, rock n roll, hip hop. Whatever music you are listening to now probably had it’s origins back in West Africa.
Handprinted on a preloved vintage biscuit sweatshirt, with orange eco ink.
Measures: 27” pit to pit, 30” shoulder to hem and 32” collar to cuff.
Manchester’s Piccadilly Records annual end of year review is like the best early Christmas present. Staff vote for their favourite new releases of the year and they produce a fantastic top 100. If you are a saddo like me it’s great to count how many you own and feel smug. It’s turned me onto so many new records. In the review they also do that’s years best reissues. A good few years back in that top 10 was a record I’d never heard of by a band from Zambia called Amanaz. Their only full length album the record was called Africa and it was released in 1975. It’s absolutely stunning. The sound is a bit garagey but also perfect pop. No fillers at all. Tracks like Big Enough, Making the Scene, Khala my Friend are all fantastic. From this I began listening to more Zamrock and then I discovered Analogue Africa and became slightly addicted by their releases. The rhythms, sophistication and grooves of mostly West African music. It’s where it all started. The blues, jazz, rock n roll, hip hop. Whatever music you are listening to now probably had it’s origins back in West Africa.
Handprinted on a preloved vintage biscuit sweatshirt, with orange eco ink.
Measures: 27” pit to pit, 30” shoulder to hem and 32” collar to cuff.
Manchester’s Piccadilly Records annual end of year review is like the best early Christmas present. Staff vote for their favourite new releases of the year and they produce a fantastic top 100. If you are a saddo like me it’s great to count how many you own and feel smug. It’s turned me onto so many new records. In the review they also do that’s years best reissues. A good few years back in that top 10 was a record I’d never heard of by a band from Zambia called Amanaz. Their only full length album the record was called Africa and it was released in 1975. It’s absolutely stunning. The sound is a bit garagey but also perfect pop. No fillers at all. Tracks like Big Enough, Making the Scene, Khala my Friend are all fantastic. From this I began listening to more Zamrock and then I discovered Analogue Africa and became slightly addicted by their releases. The rhythms, sophistication and grooves of mostly West African music. It’s where it all started. The blues, jazz, rock n roll, hip hop. Whatever music you are listening to now probably had it’s origins back in West Africa.
Handprinted on a preloved vintage biscuit sweatshirt, with orange eco ink.
Measures: 27” pit to pit, 30” shoulder to hem and 32” collar to cuff.