Zeke Manyika’s solo turns have been criminally overlooked. Responsible for the percussive sophistication of Orange Juice’s cosmopolitan 80s pop and propulsive rhythm of The The’s ‘I’ve Been Waitin’ For Tomorrow (All Of My Life)’ – who he’s back touring with right now – the self-confessed rhythm addict started working towards his solo goal on 1985’s Call And Response, fusing pop melodies with South African rhythms before Paul Simon took it to the bank on Graceland. Flush with direct political messages, Manyika’s 1989 follow-up Mastercrime was an apartheid album that the Rhodesian-born musician “had to get out of my system”. While first single ‘Bible Belt’ made international waves for its striking video (filmed in the Beira Corridor connecting Zimbabwe to the Indian Ocean via Mozambique), the funk really landed on its B-side. ‘Huya Ne Kuno’ found Manyika weaving highlife guitars and flutey-sounding synths through a kinetic wall of his own percussion, his honeyed croon effortlessly melding with his backing singers’ chorus exhortations. A lost gem, it sounds perfectly at home alongside its parent album’s expansive rock, funk and industrial fusions.