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Zambian guitarist Paul Ngozi’s essential debut album, featuring Chrissy Zebby Tembo. His debut album – issued under the name Ngozi Family – is his masterwork: an important release not just in the Zamrock genre, but in the global rock canon. Day of Judgement is an introduction to the most intense, raw and inimitable golden era Zamrock recorded, as it paved the way for a dozen Paul Ngozi and Ngozi Family releases (the most famous being drummer Chrissy Zebby Tembo’s My Ancestors) that straddled the line between funk and punk, of driving hard rock and Zambian folk melodies and rhythms.

Paul Ngozi and his Ngozi Family Band created some of the most intense, raw and inimitable golden-era Zamrock recorded.

Ngozi was born Paul Dobson Nyriongo on January 10, 1949, in Lusaka’s crime-ridden Chibolya township. He grew up as a “rude boy” before taking to music.

He died of what are assumed to be AIDS Related Causes in 1989; family members and Zamrockers both served as his pallbearers.