Dog Date is a rock 'n' roll force to be reckoned with

stirring and heavy 10 song debut LP

but hardly a departure from what connected so many people to their first record

world music traditions

THE MIGHTY CAVALIERS - Mapendo LP Comic Dog Date is a rockThe 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 omitted 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