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London indie outfit This Is The Deep make wonderfully eccentric but catchy music. The Best is Yet to Come (Part 1) is a mini-album that plays at 45 RPM, whose eight songs mingle quirky post-punk dub-funk with something altogether poppier and frothier. They are unafraid of utilising quirky sound effects and stylings that, in others hands, might lead to a kitsch novelty factor, but in theirs the results range from outright pop to the skronk-punk-jazz abstraction of “Eyes on You” to a weird slowie to vaguely Talking Head-ish moments to the cinematic exotica of the title cut. Uncategorizable and brilliant, keep your eyes and ears attuned for more from on this lot. ....
THE STANDARD LIFESTYLE Simon Kihara Macharia aka Musaimo at his studio on River Road, Nairobi. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard] As the General Election fever hit fever pitch in 1979, a titanic battle was brewing in Murang’a’s Kangema Constituency between Joseph Kamotho and John Michuki. It was the first elections in the Moi era and having left his civil servant job to join the murky world of politics, Michuki was ready to take on Kamotho, the incumbent then. “I was home since I was struggling with school fees. At this young age, I had developed love for music and I had a guitar. In-between my casual gigs at construction sites, I would play the guitar as my peers discussed politics,” says Simon Kihara aka Musaimo wa Njeri, the benga musician whose fortunes changed thanks to the heated Kangema politics at the time. ....
Editor’s Note: The following announcement was issued by #MusiciansForPalestine on May 27, 2021. Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and statements from organizations in an effort to draw attention to overlooked issues. May 27th at 9:00am EST marks the launch of #MusiciansForPalestine, a letter from more than 600 musicians that says, “we speak together and demand justice, dignity and the right to self-determination for the Palestinian people and all who are fighting colonial dispossession and violence across the planet.” Support comes from artists from the Palestinian diaspora including Belly and Anwar Hadid. A-Trak, Black Thought and Questlove from The Roots, Cypress Hill, DJ Snake, Julian Casablancas, Juliana Huxtable, Majid Al-Maskati, Mustafa the Poet, NARCY, NoName, Patti Smith, Run the Jewels, Serj Tankian of System of a Down and Thurston Moore are also among the signatories to the call, which adds: ....
May 23rd 2021 at 12:00:00 GMT +0300 A legendary Gikuyu musician is living in abject poverty in Murang’a even as some of his songs enjoy extensive airplay on leading vernacular television and radio stations. Moses Wanyoike, 65, was once a household name in Mugithi music and his Muthithi Komesha Band was among the most sought after in the entertainment industry in major towns until his star dimmed decades ago. Some of his popular hits that still play on native FM stations include ‘Ndacoka Muthithi (Return to Muthithi), Macindano ma Ago (Competition in witchcraft), Coka Mucii No Nguka (I’m coming back strong) and Nyumba yakwa Mathare (My House in Mathare). ....