Reviews
Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: Shemonmuanaye
Whilst we’re used to hearing lilting scales from vintage Ethiopia, this latest reissue from Awesome Tapes from Africa is like...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Kaani
All credit to hip UK indie label FatCat for picking up this fine album. Kaani (Happy) is actually the third...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
In the Land of Cameroon
Put aside any preconceptions you might have about field recordings.This collection of tracks by amateur musicians and singers is highly...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Aw Sa Yone Vol 1
This is a breathtaking release from the Greece-based label Teranga Beat, one of the small specialist Record labels that unearth...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
L’Intégrale
The story of the four-piece band Faham begins with one of the murkier episodes in 20th century European history. Uprooted...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Yakar
After years spent playing percussion in L’orchestre Nationale du Senegal and backing the likes of Youssou N’Dour on tour, Diagne,...
Reviewed in issue October/2013
Shona Ritual Music
The mbira or lamellophone has one of the world's most hypnotic and transcendental sounds. Often called the thumb piano, a...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Freedom Cry:Condemned Choirs
More than 550 men and women sit on death row in Uganda's prisons, condemned for crimes that include not only...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
Ambush
Having first cut his teeth as a percussionist in Remmy Ongala's legendary Orchestre Super Matimila, Ambush is Saidi Kanda's first...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sept/2013
