Reviews
Food Chain
London Afrobeat Collective are a ten-piece ensemble that bring a taste of Lagos to the UK's capital. Their new album...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
Monoswezi Yanga
This is the second album from a remarkable collaboration between African and Scandinavian musicians. The name Monoswezi is an amalgamation...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
I Speak Luganda
The endongo is an eight-stringed lyre from the area around the Great Lakes in East Africa. Joel Sebunjo has performed...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
1973-1980
Born in Guinea-Conakry, singer and percussionist Amara Touré wandered peripatetically across West African music for 20 or so years –...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
African Party
Ginger Johnson and His African Messengers
He died in Lagos 40 years ago and his heyday on London's music scene is a good 50 years in...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band
This is a new recording of old-school highlife and Afrobeat from one of Ghana's great vocalists, backed by a scorching...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
Lion Songs: Essential Tracks in the Making of Zimbabwe
As an audio companion to his recent biography of Mapfumo, the American writer and guitarist Banning Eyre has compiled 14...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
The West African Blues Project
The easiest way to describe The West African Blues Project is that it is exactly what it says in its...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
Alone (Ténéré)
Terakaft cannot be numbered among the legion of Tinariwen imitators to have emerged in recent years; they were there at...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Akö
Born in Cameroon in 1974 but resident in Paris since 2005, Bassy spent ten years in the jazz fusion group...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
