{"id":3011,"date":"2022-11-29T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2022-11-28T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:33:14","slug":"sampa-the-great-as-above-so-below-20jan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/sampa-the-great-as-above-so-below-20jan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Sampa The Great \u2013 <em>As Above, So Below<\/em>, out 20 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sampa The Great - As Above, So Below\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/sampa-the-great-as-above-so-below\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Sampa The Great - As Above, So Below\" src=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/2301\/SampaGreat.jpg\" alt=\"Sampa The Great - As Above, So Below\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sampa The Great<\/strong>\u2019s latest masterpiece, <strong><em>As Above So Below<\/em><\/strong>, is a celebration of family and heritage, taking inspiration from Zamrock, Zambia\u2019s fusion genre. Relocating home to Zambia during the pandemic, Sampa sought to reconnect with a different side of herself, a side that is freer and closer in resemblance to the younger artistry she cultivated growing up in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The musical styles of <em>As Above, So Below<\/em> reflect the hybridity of Sampa\u2019s upbringing. Raised in Botswana (a different country to her birthplace in Zambia), and then going on to attend school in different countries again, Sampa picked up varied musical influences along the way. Each style has attached itself to her own musical encyclopedia, and finds a new mode for expression throughout the record.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note<\/em>: The LP is initially available on limited-edition <strong>transparent white vinyl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sampa The Great - As Above, So Below\" href=\"https:\/\/hundredrecords.co.uk\/products\/sampa-the-great-as-above-so-below\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sampa The Great\u2019s latest masterpiece, As Above So Below, is a celebration of family and heritage, taking inspiration from Zamrock, Zambia\u2019s fusion genre. Relocating home to Zambia during the pandemic, Sampa sought to reconnect with a different side of herself, a side that is freer and closer in resemblance to the younger artistry she cultivated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[36,829,830,1730,194],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-sampa-the-great","tag-special-offer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}