Reviews
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
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
