Reviews
Nimissa
This brave and original kora rock band from Guinea have made both startlingly extraordinary and some plainly nondescript albums, but...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
African Metropolitan Music
Over the past decade, the celebrated architect David Adjaye has visited every African country, photographing the architecture of a full...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Say Africa
The man they simply call ‘The Voice’ in South Africa is little known to British audiences. But he has highly...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Live in Detroit 1986
This is a recording of Fela Anikulapo Kuti performing with Egypt 80 at Detroit’s Fox Theatre in 1986. He’d just...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
London Acoustic Set
Carmen Souza Duo feat Theo Pas’cal
Sheared back to not much more than her gravity-defying voice at London’s Green Note venue, Carmen Souza shows here that...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
African Voices
The art of a good compilation is to take the listener seamlessly from track to track even when there appears...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
No Ama
The daughter of a diplomat, Nancy Vieira was born in Guinea Bissau, grew up in the Cape Verdean capital, Praia,...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
La Voix de la Révolution
Sory Kandia Kouyaté was a link between the ancient griot tradition of sung history and the modern popular music of...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
Karantamba
Tiny Gambia has always struggled to maintain a musical identity beside its mighty neighbour, Senegal. For long periods its music...
Reviewed in issue June/2012
