THE MIGHTY CAVALIERS - Mapendo LP Field Recordings a filmic-folk idyll featuring Devendra

a filmic-folk idyll featuring Devendra Banhart on lead vocal that abruptly shifts to cataclysm

We’ll bring back what got lost a few years ago

I love this music

both musically and lyrically

impassioned singing of vocalist / cellist / bassist Soren Mourne and agonized growls from guitarist / vocalist Etienne Flinn bind with resolute tread and stride forth into darkness

THE MIGHTY CAVALIERS - Mapendo LP Field Recordings a filmic-folk idyll featuring DevendraThe Mapendo album of the Mighty Cavaliers, up to today, has been shrouded in mystery. If you look at the original cover of this very rare Kenyan funk infused album all you will find are the names of the engineer and the producer, as EMI Kenya omitted the names of the musicians and the songwriters. Digging deeper a rather sinister story of deceit develops whereby Mapendo becomes symbolic for all what was wrong about the Kenyan record industry in the