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THE MIGHTY CAVALIERS - MAPENDO VINYL RE-ISSUE (GATEFOLD LP)

THE MIGHTY CAVALIERS - MAPENDO VINYL RE-ISSUE (GATEFOLD LP)

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VINYL GATEFOLD RE-ISSUE

 

Release Date: 27th October 2023



"The 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 omi`ed 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 1970s, and the music industry in Africa as a whole. As this maltreatment of ar]sts proved endemic throughout the con]nent, although li`le talked about."