Reading Time: < 1 minute On his latest album, Kamwene, Nelix recognizes the power of striking beats and gently tooling strong vocals to capture groove. Kamwene, which translates to “hello” in Hehe Language, is ten …
Scar Makes It Look Easy
Reading Time: 2 minutes On lush keys, Scar starts raw and strong, “On that block like I should be, walk like I should be”. His latest album, Easy, starts on coruscating instrumentation, to which …
Nene K: An Essay on an Artist Piercing It Together
Reading Time: 2 minutes Nene K is building a discography that is morphing into therapy sessions – housing ambition, secrets, private thoughts, and whatever else is on his mind. His dichotomies; success, family, love, …
Sauti Sol’s Midnight Train Is Perfect: Review
Reading Time: 2 minutes Midnight Train is Sauti Sol’s Guernica, a powerful attention-grabbing album – arguably one of the best Kenyan albums from the last 10 years. The music is as complex as their …
HR The Messenger Reflects on Growth With Latest Single
Reading Time: 2 minutes I still remember taking a photo of HR after class, editing it on Microsoft Paint and together uploading his first release online – in the school cafeteria. This was in …
7 Best Kenyan Music Projects of 2020, So Far
Reading Time: 4 minutes Music is playing a major roll in calming our nerves down with all that’s going on. Perhaps the only good thing to come out of this pandemic is the unending …
Jack Rooster: DJ delivers his first studio album NYUMBA
Reading Time: 2 minutes The result of a master refining his style over five years. Almost a decade later, Jack Rooster is finally inviting us to his house. With focus more on the storyline, …
Benga Kaleidoscope Kenyan: Emergence of “patch-worked” digital communities.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Benga is the illegitimate son born out of an encounter between Cuban dance music, Zairean fingerstyle guitar, and the Luo Nyatiti tradition.