Reviews
Jaiyede Afro
Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics
Orlando Julius should be much more famous outside his native Nigeria. One of the pioneers of Afrobeat, this is the...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Trésors de la Musique Judéo-Arabe
Another welcome haul through the treasure trove of Jewish-Arab popular song: in this case, it's 13 tracks, including three released...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
Tzenni
The latest ascending Saharan star comes not from Mali, as you might expect, but from Mauritania. Singer and griot Noura...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
Akal Warled
Mix the hypnotic call-and-response vocals and tinde hand-drums of the Touareg troupe Tartit with the electric guitars, rocking rhythms and...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
Addoh
On this, his debut album, guitarist and singer Oumar Konaté seeks to place himself among the ever-growing pantheon of Mali's...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
African Gems: Recordings by Charles Duvelle, Jos Gansemans, Benoit Quersin & David Fanshawe
SWP Records never fail to surprise, educate and delight with their releases of traditional African field recordings. Their crowning glory...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
Beware the Fetish
The Kinshasa collective's second album is a follow-up to their 2008 debut, uniting the approaches of five ethnic groups. It's...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
Live à L’Étoile
Dexter Johnson & Le Super Star de Dakar
Although born in Nigeria, saxophonist Dexter Johnson was a seminal figure in Senegalese music. He wound up in pre-independence Dakar...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
African Woman
Sia Tolno was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Life for her was no bed of roses: her father was a...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2014
