Reviews
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
Zanzibara 7: Sikinde vs Ndekule
This fine addition to the confusingly titled Zanzibara series focuses on two of the leading bands from the astonishingly fertile...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Alafia
You wait 15 years for a new Sidi Touré album and then, like a fleet of bush taxis, three come...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Malagasy Blues Song
Music and spirituality are intertwined in Madagascar. Lala Njava learned her warm, sonorous singing technique from the resident shaman in...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Habibi: Algérie de ma Jeunesse
What a charming CD this is, evoking an alluring world of white linen jackets, pencil moustaches, fez hats and nightclubs...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Souleymane
Debademba consists of singer Mohamed Diaby, who comes from a Malian griot family and was raised in Abidjan in the...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2013
Bwati Kono Vol 1
The death of Lobi Traoré in 2010 at the age of 49 deprived the Malian music scene of a blues...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
