Review: Akala “The Thieves Banquet”

Akala has just released his fourth album entitled The Thieves Ban­quet. Akala’s choice to recor­ded the whole album with a live band has giv­en the album a unique sound and very dif­fer­ent style from all of his pre­vi­ous albums.

Hip hop, soul, blues, jazz and rock make up this great album. So there is some­thing to offer all you fans of these four genres of music. The twelve tracks that make up this album takes the listen­er on a jour­ney from the his­tory of the Afric­an Holo­caust with the track entitled Maangam­izi to the huge and con­tinu­ing dam­age that our gov­ern­ments, cor­por­a­tions and banks play out every day with tracks like The Thieves Ban­quet and Mal­colm Said It. In addi­tion tracks such as Our Way, The Way and Anoth­er Reas­on makes the listen­er stop and take a deep look and ques­tion our way of life and how we can improve not only ourselves but each oth­er and our society.

Down­load the full album here.

To book tick­ets for Akala’s The Thieves Ban­quet album launch click here. 


Check out Akala’s track Mal­colm Said It live at The Tate Modern

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Arash Shari­fi

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Arash Sharifi

Arash has been pas­sion­ate about Hip hop for many years. He believes through hip hop you can teach, edu­cate and empower people to become bet­ter ver­sions of them­selves and help and sup­port their com­munity and oth­ers. Hip hop is more than just music, it can be a teach­er to us all.

About Arash Sharifi

Arash has been passionate about Hip hop for many years. He believes through hip hop you can teach, educate and empower people to become better versions of themselves and help and support their community and others. Hip hop is more than just music, it can be a teacher to us all.

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