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• Bantu Spaceship 'Bantu Electro Sungura' (Nyami Nyami Records) - SINGLE PREMIERE! — TRUTH & LIES

  The brilliantly named Bantu Spaceship have a brand new single out on 20th Jan and we are pleased to offer the PREMIERE of this unique creation that harnesses the guitars and vocal harmonies of the...

• Move 78 'Grains' (Village Live Records) - a review — TRUTH & LIES

  Move 78’s third studio album is another fine example of their unique way of creating music. Take a core of skilled jazz musicians from Berlin, let them jam and improvise around riffs and motifs wh...

• Meiko Kaji 'Hajiki Uta' (WEWANTSOUNDS) - a review — TRUTH & LIES

  The cult Japanese exploitation actress Meiko Kaji never planned to be a singer but with a push from her film studio she discovered a natural talent. 'Hajiki Uta' is the first of five albums that s...

• Silvan Strauss 'Facing' (Kabul Fire) - a review — TRUTH & LIES

  Hamburg-based drummer and composer Silvan Strauss has created a debut album of ten short but dazzling micro-instrumentals. With fifteen collaborators in total, his creations veer between Madlib st...

• MUSIC — MAGAZINE — TRUTH & LIES

  October 17, 2023 Lagos Thugs are a young 12-piece Afrobeat orchestra from Nigeria in the vein of the classic Africa 70 and Egypt 80 outfits of Fela Kuti. Led by singer, saxophonist and multi-instrume...

• Gyedu-Blay Ambolley 'Hi-life Jazz' (Agogo Records) - a review — TRUTH & LIES

  On his 35th album, the great Ghanaian bandleader Gyedu-Blay Ambolley has masterfully carved out a record half full of original highlife gems, the other half containing superb interpretations of st...