Grammy-Nominated Zomba Prison Project Featured On CBS-TV 60 Minutes This Weekend

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) This Sunday, CBS 60 Minutes will run an extensive feature on the new album from the Grammy-nominated Zomba Prison Project. Featuring prisoners and officers from Malawi's maximum security prison, the Associated Press recently said of the album "if a picture is worth a thousand words, these prison songs are snapshots which could inspire a lengthy book."

ZOMBA PRISON PROJECT
60 Minutes
10/30/16
CBS TV
Anderson Cooper profiles the project featuring producer Ian Brennan and footage from inside the Prison.
The second album from Zomba Prison Project, I Will Not Stop Singing, was released 9/9/16 via Six Degrees Records. Itunes Amazon
Watch on Top40-Charts.com a mini-documentary from inside Zomba Prison; Mic said "these songs of love and loss transcend language and border."

Produced by author and Grammy-winner, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Malawi Mouse Boys), the Zomba Prison Project's debut album I Have No Everything Here was the surprise world music hit of 2015. The record offered songs of heartbreaking and forthright loneliness, regret, and despair coupled with a sense of resilience and courage under the most extreme of circumstances. The album received the first Grammy nomination ever for the country of Malawi, an honor that sadly the overwhelming majority of African nations have still yet to receive.

The themes and concerns of the inmates are expressed clearly in titles such as "I Am Done With Evil," "Leave My Daughter Alone," "Protect Me," and perhaps most revealingly, the almost prayer-like chant, "I Will Not Return to Prison." Other standout performances come the newcomer firebrand vocalist, Agnes Chiwisa, and the ethereal, spine-chilling falsetto that lifer, Elias Chimenya unexpectedly reaches at the climax of the a cappella track, "Sister, Take Good Care of Your Husband."