The musicians from the Acholi tribe in remote northern Uganda were recorded on Lamwong by producer Ian Brennan, known for...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
What a joy it must have been to see and hear Les Ambassadeurs in the mid-70s, playing in the motel...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2014
This album takes its title from a 19th-century autobiography by Emily Ruete. Born Sayyida Salme, the daughter of the Sultan...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
You might have thought there were already enough compilations of Malian music in the world. But this well presented box-set...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
These two latest releases from Buda are in some respects polar opposites, though connected by a common theme. One is...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
Ghanaian popular music is currently dominated by both religious music and the genre known as hiplife. King Ayisoba is well-known...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
The singer Tiken Jah Fakoly is next in line to Alpha Blondy on the somewhat specialised Ivory Coast reggae scene,...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
The role of Paris and Marseille in the production of North African music in France is well documented: less so...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
The rich river of talent flowing from beneath the sands of West Africa has rather hijacked our perception of music...
Reviewed in issue October/2014
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
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