Sotho Sounds: Junk Funk – review

(Riverboat/World Music Network)Just because you can't afford an instrument doesn't mean you can't make music. The remarkable sounds produced by Staff Benda Bilili's Roger Landu on his one-stringed, home-made satongé are a reminder of the invention of many African musicians. Now here's a band who made all their instruments from recycled material: the fiddles and guitars from tin cans and bicycle wire, the drums from oil tins and tree trunks. Sotho Sounds are from Lesotho, the mountainous kingdom...

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