Mulele is a UK-based guitarist working in a variety of styles including jazz, pop, hip-hop and world music. Although he...
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The Zimbabwean singer Vusa Mkhaya, now resident in Vienna, is part of the vocal trio Insingini, which released the rather...
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Malick Pathé Sow & Bao Sissoko
There has been a glut of recent albums featuring American and European musicians collaborating with their West African counterparts. Nobody...
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What a delight this new collaboration between Ethiopian saxophone legend Getatchew Mekuria and The Ex proves to be. Showcasing something...
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Seckou Keita is representative of a new breed of African musician for whom the world really has become a global...
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Jeannot Bel is a UK-based Congolese guitarist who is a regular member of Kanda Bongo Man’s touring band. He recently...
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New Yorker Joe Driscoll (now based in the UK and part of the One Taste collective) and Sekou Kouyaté, the...
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A 1975 release on the Essiebons label from Ghana, this is an album of occasionally funky but mostly sweet highlife,...
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Soundway are on a roll at the moment, with new projects and compilations such as this that steadily mine the...
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Youssou N’Dour began the 80s as the hub of a dynamic emerging music scene in Senegal and ended them being...
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