V/A - Bulayo - Guitar Songs From Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia and DR Congo LP Ska occasionally emerging with something dangerously

occasionally emerging with something dangerously close to catchiness

XAN AIRD on guitar

By constantly renewing his instrumentarium over the years

while the songs themselves speak with a raw intimacy that can be shocking to hear

and just using the lyrics as a way to have continuity

V/A - Bulayo - Guitar Songs From Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia and DR Congo LP Ska occasionally emerging with something dangerouslyAfrican acoustic guitar masterpieces, expanding on Mississippis beloved African Guitar Box. In 1979 and 1980, a young British Kenyan musician named John Low hit the road to learn finger style guitar from his heroes. He traveled across Kenya, Tanzania, Congo, and Zambia, visiting, and sometimes staying in the homes of, stars like Jean Bosco Mwenda, Losta Abelo, and Emmanuel Mulemena. He also documented brilliant but previously under recorded artists