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[twistedsoulmusic]

An incredible return from Zamrock’s founding fathers. This excellent album combines WITCH’s most notable musical influences and demonstrates why they can reinvent themselves some half a century after their first release in 1973. Zango includes collaborations with Sampa The Great, Keith Kabwe, Theresa Ng’ambi, and Hanna Tembo. One not to miss.

[dougwallen]

Sampa the Great review for The Weekend Australian

[therukurals]

Please pour a cup Feminine libation +

[timeismusic]

snippet from Sampa‘s Africa Day performance.

“Leading Us Home” by Sampa the Great

backup vocals by Mwanjé & Taudra

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Energy (feat. Nadeem Din-Gabisi) by Sampa The Great - Director: Modu Sesay

[distantvoices]

Sampa Tembo by Salomé Gomis-Trezise for Highsnobiety October 2022

[afroklectic]

Sampa The Great - Final Form

Produced by S I L E N T J A Y Written by Sampa Tembo and Alejandro John Abapo 

We often as black people in the diaspora talk about the physical return to our roots but not so much the spiritual.

Final form is meant to start that conversation, even though physically done in Africa. The physical return only happened after the spiritual one.

It was important for me to do this video in Zambia. The place of my birth and where I’m from. Because if I’m truly going to become the greatest version of myself, I’m going to start at the most me I’ve ever been. Which is where I started from, where I grew up!

I also wanted to touch on the topics of home which will further be revealed in the album!

But also clarify that I am indeed a Zambian. Born and raised between Zambia and Botswana. By a Bemba mother and Tumbuka father and to erase that by calling me anything but Zambian/African, is to erase my history,culture and essence.

Everything I was born from. - Sampa The Great

[whateverbringsyouthroughthenight]

Sampa the Great (born Sampa Tembo) is an Austalia-based poet, singer-songwriter, and rapper from Zambia.

Sampa Tembo was born in Zambia and raised in Botswana. She was based in Sydney, Australia from 2014 to 2018, originally coming to Australia to pursue a degree in audio production at the SAE Institute. As of 2018, she is based in Melbourne. Before going to Australia, she had previously studied in San Francisco for two years and Los Angeles for a year. 

[mrscorpio]

Download: http://bit.ly/DL-HF218 All my previous shows: http://bit.ly/ScorpioPodcasts Name/Artist/Album One/Cleo Sol /One They Shootin/Clear Soul Forces/Still Make me stronger feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow (Floating Points Remix)/Bei Bei & Shawn Lee /Pleats of Matter/Andras fox Glad I Lived/Alfa mist/Structuralism You Used to Love Me (Alfa Mist Remix)/Quantic/You Used to Love Me ft. Denitia Best Life (Prod by Q-Tip)/Danny Brown/Best Life No Sunshine Tomorrow (Sunset Version)/Children of Zeus/Excess Baggage Accordion/Abstract Orchestra/Madvillain Vol. 1 Do You (Nas One Love) #LeeMix/Aleisha Lee/Do You This Life (feat. James Gardin & Macklyn)/Sareem Poems & Newselph/This Life Problems (produced by KuroiOto)/James Gardin/Living Daylights May I Assume/Shafiq Husayn feat. Jimetta Rose & Fatima/The Loop Deep Inside/Steve Spacek/Natural Sci-Fi Field Negro /Royce Da 5’9/Field Negro Swimm/Black Milk/ Phil Swish/DiVE Blam/Georgia Anne Muldrow/Overload Sativa Park (Feat. Terrace Martin)/Salaam Remi/Grass Is Greener Truth Hurts/Lizzo/Cuz I Love You [Deluxe Edition] Ricky/Denzel Curry /Ricky Education (feat. Yasiin Bey & Black Thought)/Freddie Gibbs & Madlib/Bandana Come Home (feat. André 3000)/Anderson .Paak/Ventura Mwana (feat. Mwanje/ Theresa Mutale Tembo/ Sunburnt Soul Choir)/Sampa the Great/The Return Open Doors/Osunlade/Ache' Light Years feat. Jay Electronica/MF Doom/The Missing Notebook Rhymes New Heights (Visions of Aisha Malik)/Kamaal Williams/New Heights / Snitches Brew Jerrod/Solange/When I Get Home A BOY IS A GUN/Tyler/ The Creator/IGOR Sickomode/Swarvy/Blend No. 1-4 Tales/ScHoolboy Q/CrasH Talk Guns /Quelle Chris/Guns LaLa Challenge/EarthGang/Mirrorland Get Away/BJ The Chicago Kid/1123 Ain't Perfect (Instrumental)/Guts/Stop The Violence Insane (ARKTKT Remix)/Madison McFerrin/Finding Foundations: THE REMIXES Send me your tracks at Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/mr_scorpio Check out all your tracks on my show THE HOUSE FIRE/ every other Friday @6-8 PM GMT on InvaderFM: http://invader.fm Stream the podcasts at my Mixcloud: http://tinyurl.com/3kkfgzp  Friend me up on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mrscorpio247 Look me up on Tumblr: http://mrscorpio.tumblr.com Shoot me your videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MrScorpio Peace, Scorp

[therukurals]

When I was going through BB9, I was lost. It was just like, 'I'm in this place where I can't be who I am. I'm all these different things for all these different peoples. I don't know how to navigate just as me.' With that comes a sense of loss.

But not fully. It came around full circle and there's an assurance in who I was and with that came the joy of being like, 'Ahhhh, I can laugh the same as I did before I got lost in this — I can be as happy as I was before I got lost in all of this.' At the end of the day, I've managed to create home within myself. When I'm not at home, I'm still home. +

Sampa the Great 

[timeismusic]

Sampa’s 24 Years Through the Greatvine

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Sampa The Great - The Return - A short film directed by Sanjay De Silva

[artifacts-and-beyond]

Mwana ∞ Sampa The Great

from the LP The Return on Ninja Tune

beautiful song

[thesinglesjukebox]

SAMPA THE GREAT - FINAL FORM

[7.38]

Ascending to the sidebar...

William John: "How you supposed to be Black down under?" mused Sampa the Great in 2017, before relenting to an undulant groove. It's not a question I can answer, but in a nation built on the genocide of Indigenous people and with a Home Affairs minister and his prejudiced lackeys hell-bent on characterising all African refugees as violent gang members, it's likely to be something close to: "with great difficulty." All the more reason, then, to celebrate this moment of fearlessness from an African-Australian artist (well -- she's as much American as Australian, but we do have a habit of claiming foreign high achievers as our own). A majestic, honking beat, built around the Sylvers' "Stay Away From Me," wouldn't require much work from any vocalist to mould into a slapper for the ages. But Sampa takes no chances, contrasting an assonant, almost restrained chorus with verses heavy on braggadocio. "Young veteran; new classic," she spits, beatifying herself and rewriting the unfortunate, Snow White antipodean rap canon herself with a single breath. [8]

Ian Mathers: It takes a bold performance to not just stand up to, but dominate over those strong Sylvers horns, and Sampa is up for it. "Young veteran, new classic" is the kind of line that plenty of new performers essay, and sometimes it sees charming at best (or foolishly presumptive at worst), but with "Final Form" if anything it seems like Sampa is confident enough to underplay her case. [9]

Edward Okulicz: Her final form emerges over a sample that makes it sound like the opening credits of a kick-ass action film, and it's a thrilling moment. If anything though, the endless horizon of those horns blares a little too much and drowns Sampa out. But she's got enough presence to always be in charge of her own look-at-me-I'm-awesome track, and when she says "Last name Tembo, first name Eve," I'm not sure if she means she's the first, or if she fancies herself as the next Eve. Either seems fine to me. Releasing this in the thick of Melbourne's winter is perverse, though. [8]

Alfred Soto: From the Sylvers sample to the first-recorded use of "melanin" in a hook, "Final Form" has buoyancy that's unreal. I'm not sure it's a classic yet, but I wanna hear it again. And again. [7]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: Silentjay's anthemic production and slick sample-flipping are strong enough to warrant a completely instrumental version, and the existence of the extended intro indicates that everyone involved was aware of this. It finds a strong partner in Sampa, her voice overflowing with the confidence needed to sell both the music and lyrics here. Still, it's all rather tired and unexciting in 2019, and the slickness of Sampa's delivery -- something more evocative on a track like "Energy" -- is absent here, overtaken by a need to create something a bit more declaratory. [5]

Will Adams: The track's admittedly a bit stationary, but Sampa's urgent delivery sells it. And then it inexplicably, frustratingly ends on a fade out. A mission statement this forceful deserves punctuation, not a trail-off into nothing. [6]

Vikram Joseph: Sampa's flow spits and crackles effortlessly over bombastic, peacocking brass, and the segue between the first and second verse is exquisite, the two linked by a tantalisingly brief soul sample which, unfortunately, is barely seen again. It's a shame that the chorus feels like such a lull; at the very least, each iteration of it is twice as long as it needs to be, sapping momentum from a song that relies upon it. [6]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Silentjay's production job here is near-flawless -- both the sample flip and the original synth bits. It's the platonic ideal of a soul-sampling beat, mixing in The Sylvers both vocally and instrumentally until the lost love of the original track is completely denatured and turning it into something triumphant. And yet, the production here is completely overshadowed by Sampa Tempo herself, who truly lives up to her chosen moniker. Her command of her choppy, playful flow is so skillful that she bends the beat to her will instead of the other way around, and her lyrics, which literally stride the globe in their ambitions, match her skill. It's a full barrage of a song, an unrelenting display of talent for three-and-a-half minutes. [10]

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[qudachuk]

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[zambianobserver]

CEASEFIRE: Miles Sampa Tells Opposition Leader Sean Tembo & Chitambala Mwewa To Bury Hatchet

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