Chalachew Ashenafi & Ilita Band
After the success of the Netherlands’ band The Ex’s collaboration with Getatchew Mekuria, Terrie Hessel, the band’s guitarist, has issued...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Captain Rugged purports to be the sound of a man on a mission, with Nigerian Afro-rock musician Keziah Jones adopting...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
It’s odd now to recall that initial responses in the West to Ali Farka Toure’s Songhai guitar music – 25...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
This is the first internationally released recording from griot guitarist Tiecoro Sissoko and sadly it is a posthumous debut, Sissoko...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
The late Lobi Traoré’s reputation as the wild maverick of the Malian electric guitar is based less on his recorded...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Joseph Kabasele, better known as Le Grand Kalle, was a Congolese singer and bandleader, and his dance¬band were the first...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
This follow-up to 2010’s Unique Sound of Luanda trawls a similar time period. Subtitled Hypnosis, Distortion & Other Sonic Innovations...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
It was always going to be interesting to see how Damon Albarn’s Africa Express project would translate to the recording...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
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