Sampa the Great announces her new LP Nu Zamrock, will drop on October 30 via Loma Vista Recordings (Vince Staples, Militarie Gun, Soccer Mommy). The album kicks off a new era for the Zambian musician and rapper, and is accompanied by their new single “Simon Says.” The news follows her announcement of her forthcoming appear in London, England venue Blue Note on November 4, 2026, in celebration of the album release and the venue’s opening season. Nu Zamrock was produced by GRAMMY-award winning producer Cadenze.

While recently reconnecting with family back home, Sampa learned that her blood uncle George Kunda (Groovy Joe) was a founding member of Zambia’s legendary psychedelic rock band WITCH, one of the pioneers of the 1970s movement known as Zamrock; that daring 1970s fusion of rock, funk, and African rhythm. That inheritance became the heartbeat of Nu Zamrock. On this new album, Sampa finds herself reimagining Zamrock through her own lens, merging it with hip-hop, poetry, and soul to create Nu Zamrock, a form both ancestral and futuristic. “Zamrock is part of my family legacy,” she says. “It’s my voice. Being Zambian, being loud, being defiant — that’s what Zamrock is.”

“Nu Zamrock is not nostalgia.” says Sampa “It is the future remembering where it came from. This album is a reclamation of my lineage and bloodline: it is my homage to the disruptive, rebellious spirit that Zamrock represented at its peak and carried Zambia forward with, reintroducing the genre to the world, in my own way.”

In anticipation of the announcement, Sampa released a prelude visual introduction, titled Ukwamba: (To Start). Shot in Zambia, it is a story of bloodline and the passing down of the legacy to the new generation, through song and storytelling, told through the through-line of Sampa, a different version of herself over time, and her blood Uncle George Kunda (Groovy George).

Sampa The Great 2026 Tour dates

October 3 – Move My Way Festival, Sydney, AUS
Octobr 4 – Move My Way Festival, Melbourne, AUS
November 4 – Blue Note, London, UK (early show)
November 4 – Blue Note, London, UK (late show)

Pre-order Nu Zamrock by Sampa The Great HERE