Adrian Younge - Afro-Disco Makossa irish Simon Joyner is among America’s

Simon Joyner is among America’s best songwriters

Sam Rivers

Wolter crafts music that feels like a memory: sun- faded

digitally remastered by Andrew Liles

featuring an obi strip

Adrian Younge - Afro-Disco Makossa irish Simon Joyner is among America’sAFRO DISCO MAKOSSA is the first album on Linear Labs built strictly for the dance floor, and Younge is uniquely qualified to make it. He didn't arrive at Afrobeat as an outsider paying tribute. Through his sister label Jazz Is Dead, he already helped define what modern Afrobeat sounds like. His sessions with Tony Allen (co creator of the genre itself) and Highlife pioneer Ebo Taylor didn't just inform his musical vocabulary; they produced two