Muntu Valdo's music is rooted in the blues, mixing  African traditions (he was brought up in Cameroon and then France) with striking modernity and technical mastery, building up layers of sounds with loops and samples. He toured last autumn with Congolese superstars Staff Benda Bilili - his debut album Gods & Devils was described by NME as "a rapturous record that shudders with joy and passion.”

• "Of all the artists that I've seen recently the London-based Cameroonian Muntu Valdo is possibly one of the most intriguing...At a recent gig at Jamm in Brixton, he played a quite mesmerising solo set in which he used looping pedals as well as guitar and harmonica to create finely woven tapestries of sound that, with the occaisonally marked afro-Brazilian resonance of the material, came across as an audacious gathering of the spirits of Milton Nascimento and Cleveland Watkiss" Echoes
  
  "The crowd were treated to Muntu Valdo's guitar magic. Sauntering on stage with a springy step, softly picking at his guitar and blowing in his harmonica, he resembled a youthful, latter-day Bob Dylan. But his music is from a different stream. Using a box of tricks to double-track his guitar and voice live, he added layers of sound to create full-textured, soft songs about peace, love and Cameroonian witchcraft and charmed the audience.” The Financial Times