Reviews
Prophecy
Mulele is a UK-based guitarist working in a variety of styles including jazz, pop, hip-hop and world music. Although he...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Vocalism
The Zimbabwean singer Vusa Mkhaya, now resident in Vienna, is part of the vocal trio Insingini, which released the rather...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Aduna
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...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Y’Anbessaw Tezeta
What a delight this new collaboration between Ethiopian saxophone legend Getatchew Mekuria and The Ex proves to be. Showcasing something...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Miro
Seckou Keita is representative of a new breed of African musician for whom the world really has become a global...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Etike
Jeannot Bel is a UK-based Congolese guitarist who is a regular member of Kanda Bongo Man’s touring band. He recently...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Faya
New Yorker Joe Driscoll (now based in the UK and part of the One Taste collective) and Sekou Kouyaté, the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
Funky Highlife
A 1975 release on the Essiebons label from Ghana, this is an album of occasionally funky but mostly sweet highlife,...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79
Soundway are on a roll at the moment, with new projects and compilations such as this that steadily mine the...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
From Senegal to the World: 80s Classics & Rarities
Youssou N’Dour began the 80s as the hub of a dynamic emerging music scene in Senegal and ended them being...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2013
