Athieno – IaM (Album Review)

October 19, 2016 | Bottomline Kenya 1

Self-Released; 2016 Athieno is your quintessential African fusion artist. Numerous musical genres and influences ooze out of her songs, softly kneaded and layered together to leave just enough room for one final fundamental ingredient – a unique signature sound which combines her arresting vocals and her deceptively simple songwriting. The results of this two-pronged creative […]Read More

New Music: Jim Chuchu, Wanja Wohoro, Athieno, M³, Kahvinya, Inami + Jinku

December 9, 2015 | Bottomline Kenya

Another day, another batch of awesome new music from around and about. Let’s head right into it: Athieno – Trouble Medley Who else other than Athieno (formerly known as Anniesoul) can bless us with a legit Fela Kuti – Bob Marley medley? Yup, in her usual acapella fashion, she’s mashed up Fela Kuti’s Trouble Sleep Yanga […]Read More

New Music: Anniesoul, Kiu, Sauti Sol, Pizo Dizo, Elani + Sanaipei Tande

July 28, 2014 | Bottomline Kenya

Anniesoul – Fire Anniesoul is back, and this time it isn’t for covers. She’s just dropped a new original track called Fire, self-produced in collaboration with Moez Dawad. It is a fiery, funky love song that spreads across several genres it would be pointless to pigeon-hole it. Kind of brings Janelle Monáe to mind. Listen […]Read More

JAB Drop Fan-Created “Probably For Lovers” Video

July 9, 2014 | Bottomline Kenya

True to their nature of  coming up with unique ideas for their video releases, Just A Band is back with the music video to Probably for Lovers  a track off their third album Sorry For The Delay. The infectious tune quickly became a fan favourite immediately Sorry For The Delay was released, and inspired a cool acapella cover by  AnnieSoul […]Read More

Best Of: annieSoul’s Acapella Cover Series

May 28, 2013 | Bottomline Kenya 7

Boston based afro-soul sensation Annette “annieSoul” Oduor has concluded an impressive nine month long series of covers in which she pays tribute to 15 Kenyan songs (mostly classics) with her own acapella versions on her SoundCloud page. Even better news – before she embarks on a new project, she has made all the covers available […]Read More