Reviews
Tide
Hearing this new album by Zimbabwean funksters Mokoomba for the first time is a truly exciting experience, on a par...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
Classics of My Soul
Like his compatriot Bonga, Waldemar Bastos is an Angolan in exile – living in Portugal after fleeing his homeland when...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
MTMTMK
The combination of the Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and the London-based electro production team Radioclit made The Very Best's debut...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
Tumbuka Voices
Emerging from the same cultural and geographical milieu as the recent Malawi Mouse Boys’ album, Umoza (meaning ‘togetherness’) is a...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
Quoi D’Autre?
Karima Nayt is an Algerian dancer and singer whose peripatetic CV seems to have taken her to Sweden, where she...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
El Aaiún Egdat
It is only appropriate to explain that I first heard Mariem Hassan’s declamatory voice opening her new album on a...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
Musicatelama
Guitarist, composer and occasional singer Mose Fan Fan is one of the few survivors of Congo’s Orchestre OK Jazz to...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
African Anthology: African Rhythms
The third in the African Anthology series continues to feature music predominantly sourced from the former Portuguese colonies, plus some...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
African Anthology: African Guitars
The task of selecting songs for compilation albums of the Lusafrica label is probably not too difficult, due to the...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
Guzo
It's not often that one is greeted by such a strong debut, so effortlessly shot through with intelligence and creativity....
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2012
