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Please The Nation

by Eye Q

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    This is the 21st release in the deluxe Now-Again Reserve Edition. A detailed book is included with the album, and that book is included as a bonus, digital PDF.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Triple album packaged in a gatefold sleeve w/ OBI and resealable plastic bag. Contains an oversized booklet that contains Eye Q's incredible story and the story behind these recordings, including many previously unpublished photographs.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Please The Nation via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    2 Disc CD, with all the Now Again Reserve Edition bonus material, packaged in a 6-panel eco-wallet.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Please The Nation via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Angel Face 03:05
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I Am Selfish 03:19
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Enweth 04:06
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Lovely Lady 03:18
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Widow 04:12
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Lonely 04:24
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Beginning 04:08
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I Am Selfish 02:00
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Dancing 04:05
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about

Just as the hippie era came to an end in America, a second 60s was beginning: in what is now Zimbabwe, young people created a rock and roll counterculture that drew inspiration from hippie ideals and the sounds of Hendrix and Deep Purple. The kids in the scene called their music “heavy,” because they could feel its impact, and it resonated from Zambia to Nigeria. At its peak in the mid-70s, the heavy rock scene united tens of thousands of young progressives of all racial and social backgrounds. The country was called Rhodesia then, one of the last bastions of White rule in Africa, and heavy rockers defied segregation laws and secret police to make a stand for democratic change. Eye Q is one of the greatest bands of the scene: their rock stands on par with the early Zamrock of WITCH and Ngozi Family. Please The Nation encapsulated Eye Q’s desire to forge forth, in a new, free country, and this set collates their 7” singles, ultra-rare album and songs from master tape and presents their music for the first time outside of Zimbabwe. A trio of authors collaborate here to tell the Eye Q story, and to investigate the genesis of the heavy rock scene under Ian Smith's racist, oppressive government, and its dissipation after Zimbabwe's liberation.

credits

released May 18, 2022

This anthology produced by Eothen Alapatt and Matthew Shechmeister
Associate production by Albert Nyathi and Cuthbert Maziwa.
Research and liner notes by Matthew Shechmeister, with contributions and edits by Albert Nyathi, Torii MacAdams and Eothen Alapatt.
Restoration and remastering by Jason Bitner, with vinyl and tape transfers in Zimbabwe done by Matthew Shechmeister and transfers in Los Angeles done by Ben Lowrie.
Art direction by Errol Richardson.

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