Reviews
Lamwong: Freedom Fighters
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
Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako
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
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
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
Mali All Stars: Bogolan Music
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
Éthiopiques 29: Mastawesha
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
Wicked Leaders
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
Dernier Appel
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
Maghreb Lyon
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
Rough Guide to the Music of the Sahara
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
Jaiyede Afro
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
