Reviews
The Rough Guide to Highlife
The consistently reliable Rough Guide compilation series has delved into West African music on many occasions and this latest version...
Reviewed in issue October/2012
Kel Tamasheq
World music’s love affair with Touareg guitars continues with the fourth album from Terakaft, formed as an off-shoot of Tinariwen...
Reviewed in issue October/2012
Manghoua Foura
The Wassoulou region of southern Mali has an incredible record for producing great female singers. They were celebrated with Sterns’...
Reviewed in issue October/2012
Tientalaw
Zani Diabaté's first name may not be as instantly recognisable as his last (many of the Diabaté dan are griots)...
Reviewed in issue October/2012
African Blues
A dozen years ago the Putumayo label issued one of the first compilations to explore the rich connections between African...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
Momo Le Doyen
The Guinea-born saxophonist, singer and composer, who died in 2003 at the age of 77, was one of Africa’s greatest...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
Circle Songs
When we think of Pygmy music it is primarily the vocal gymnastics that spring to mind; usually with an organic...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
Botyiaki Ntembe
This two-CD package reissues two albums that book-ended the latter part of the veteran Congolese troubadour’s musical career. Antoine Wendo...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
Timbuktu Tarab
The absolute highlight of WOMAD Charlton Park last year for me was the Malian singer Khaira Arby from Timbuktu. Surrounded...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
