$/He Who Feeds You…Owns You

In a terrific transition from the protest music of their last album, Tolika Mtoliki, The Brother Moves On's fourth record takes its title from a speech by pan-African revolutionary Thomas Sankara to the Organisation of African Unity. It provides the starting point for a collection of songs that give reverence to those who came before while simultaneously cleaving to new formations of sound and meaning.

The former comes most potently in the form of ‘Itumeleng Revisited’, a heart-stopping version of a song made famous by 1970s Soweto band Batsumi, and ‘Hamba the Reprise’, a traditional that's mesmerising, moving and quite simply magnificent (and which also appeared as ‘Go My Heart, Go to Heaven’ on We Are Sent Here by History by Shabaka and the Ancestors). The latter comes in the form of TBMO's thrilling and fertile collaboration with Shabaka Hutchings. $/He Who Feeds You…Owns You is the third release by Hutchings' Native Rebel Recordings; the Sons of Kemet bandleader produced the record and also plays flute and clarinet. The easy feeling of this collaboration is unsurprising since Hutchings’ acclaimed Shabaka and the Ancestors is fronted by THBO's Siyabonga Mthembu. Multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Jiyane adds to the dynamic feel and stunning musicality of the whole album, helping to effortlessly make you feel like you've entered a hypnotic, warm space that you don't ever want to leave.