Reviews
Music of Angola
Manuel Diogo mixes traditional and contemporary Angolan gospel music: he blends recognisable gospel sounds – from the harmonies of African...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Metisse Maloya
The island of La Réunion is a French territory located in the Indian Ocean, lying to the east of Madagascar,...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Gossip
This is veteran Malian singer Khaira Arby's first album in five years, recorded in 2010 and 2012 in various parts...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66
This double-CD set captures the ‘colonial’-influenced dance music of Anglophone West Africa, from shortly before and after Ghanaian and Nigerian...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Zomba Prison Project: I Have No Everything Here
In 2013, producer Ian Brennan clandestinely documented the music found inside Zomba's maximum security institution in Malawi. Some of the...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Ballads & Blasphemy: The Religious Gospel of Adebola Kuku
Nigerian singer-songwriter Kuku has an interesting heritage. Born Adebola Kuku in the US and raised in Lagos, he now resides...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Ba Power
Over the last few years, Bassekou Kouyaté has revolutionised the gutbucket sound of the ancient West African banjo known as...
Reviewed in issue June/2015
Joa
Coco Mbassi is a versatile and highly accomplished Paris-based female singer from Cameroon. She has recorded and performed live as...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Agbara Orin
No Go Stop are a 12-piece Afrobeat ensemble that emerged from a jazz musicians’ collective in Bristol. They perform original...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
Next Stop Soweto Vol 4: Zulu Rock, Afro-Disco and Mbaqanga 1975-1985
The years between 1975 and 1985 marked the violent beginning of the end for the apartheid era. Mandela was still...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2015
