Mighty Cavaliers
Mapendo
"The 'Mapendo' album of the Mighty Cavaliers, up to today, has been shrouded in mystery. Why is that, you can find nearly nothing about this album and the band. The only song which is maybe well known in the collectors scene is 'Dunia Ina Mambo' from their first release out of 1976. So it was more or less a surprise to get hy Hands on the original in January 2023 directly from Kenya. I've never seen such a hypnotically good cover and what do could I expect from the record? Cleaned the record from all the dirt and put it on the player. That has to be the first Want Some release! There is no other way. Up from the first song till the last it is an outstanding record. So many influences and power came out of the speakers. Great guitar work, funky, bluesy notes in some songs and typically African roots. We were blown away. From that point I started working on that album. Our mission is to tell the story of the band and spread these great tunes into the world. I hired Michiel van Oosterhout, a journalist who is living in Uganda, who wrote a book about Ugandan music and has good connections into the east African music scene. He began digging deep, made calls, wrote e-mails etc. and at the end he wrote the true story about the The Mighty Cavaliers which you can find in the gatefold." ~Want Some Records. This album is dedicated to the musicians Bonnie Wanda, Rashid Salim, Vuli Yeni, Juma Waweru Njuguna and Athmani 'Guitar Boy.'