Reviews

Sangoyi

Kala Jula

Kala Jula is a collaboration between multi-instrumentalists Samba Diabaté and Vincent Zanetti, both of whom live in Mali, although the...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

We Are in the War

Prince Buju

Also known as Aduko Saabo, Prince Buju is the latest luminary to gain exposure through Makkum Records, the Amsterdam-based label...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Balbalou

Cheikh Lô

It's five years since Cheikh Lô's fourth and final album for the World Circuit label but thankfully little has changed...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Taziri

Titi Robin & Mehdi Nassouli

French guitarist and bouzouki player Robin's musical journeys around the Mediterranean are part of his signature style. His latest collaboration...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

22 Strings

Seckou Keita

After his sublime album, Clychau Dibon, with Welsh harpist Catrin Finch that won Best Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the 2014 Songlines...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Mama Africa

Miriam Makeba

Ignore the title. For although Makeba – who died in 2008 aged 76 – richly deserved the ‘Mama Africa’ soubriquet,...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Respect

Zangwana

Zangwana describe themselves as an Afro-disco group and on the song ‘I’m Zangwana’ (the only song sung in English) they...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Zoy Zoy

Tal National

It would be unfair to say that our taste for the Touareg blues style known as assouf, pioneered by Tinariwen...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Pace of Mind

Slang & Purbayan Chatterjee

Continuing to incorporate new sounds into their experimental jazz, the award-winning Belgian trio Slang have teamed up with sitar prodigy...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Womama

Djeli Moussa Condé

Hailing from Guinea, living in Paris and with spiritual roots in Mali and Gambia, Djeli Moussa Condé's experience is one...

Reviewed in issue July/2015