Reviews
Who is William Onyeabor?
The title of this album is highly appropriate as nobody – the record label included – seems to be able...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Taboussizé-Niger
Mamar Kassey is the working group name used by the musician Yacouba Moumouni (nicknamed Denké-Denké). The group is from Niger...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Titina Canta B Leza
With reissues of long-deleted Cape Verdean albums being about as rare as Cape Verdean cloud bursts, Astral Music in conjunction...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
The Nile Project: Aswan
In January earlier this year 18 musicians from five countries along the Nile came together in an unprecedented collaboration. This...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Just My Land
Erik Aliana is a singer and percussionist from Cameroon. He lives in the urban environment of Yaoundé and this recording,...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Bulimundo/Djam Brancu Dja
Most readers will associate Cape Verde with the languid, melancholic mornas made famous by the great singer Cesaria Evora, or...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2014
Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight to Ghana 1974-1983
Admirers of 70s African music are living in high-cotton times, thanks to admirably dogged labels like Soundway and Analog Africa....
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Chapter One
With a 1973 debut record floating somewhere between San Francisco and Lagos, Blo were the pioneers of African rock. Fusing...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
