Reviews
The Rough Guide to the Best African Music You've Never Heard
In The Rough Guide to the Best Music You've Never Heard, a book published in 2009, this author explored some...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
Origines
For his second full-length album, Marseille-based urban poet Ahamada Smis has pointed his musical compass towards the country of his...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
Huambo Música Sessions
From spicy semba to the hip club beats of kuduro, it is the urban music styles of Angola that are...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
Zanzibara 8: Chungu
The taarab music of Zanzibar is one of the glories of Africa and has a history stretching back over a...
Reviewed in issue Apr/May/2014
Eve
Dedicated to ‘the women of Africa, to their resilience and their beauty, Kidjo’s tenth studio album features the voices of...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Eva
An Algarve-born singer of Cape Verdean extraction and a founding member of the MTV award-winning group Nu Soul Family, Dino...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
In Memory of Ethiopia’s Greatest Azmari
Chalachew Ashenafi & Ilita Band
After the success of the Netherlands’ band The Ex’s collaboration with Getatchew Mekuria, Terrie Hessel, the band’s guitarist, has issued...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Captain Rugged
Captain Rugged purports to be the sound of a man on a mission, with Nigerian Afro-rock musician Keziah Jones adopting...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Adibar
It’s odd now to recall that initial responses in the West to Ali Farka Toure’s Songhai guitar music – 25...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
Keme Borama
This is the first internationally released recording from griot guitarist Tiecoro Sissoko and sadly it is a posthumous debut, Sissoko...
Reviewed in issue March/2014
