Reviews
The Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia
Few countries’ musical heritage has been pilfered so thoroughly as has Ethiopia’s in recent years. Rarely a month goes by...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
The Nile: The Song of the Rivers
Rivers can be the basis of a beautiful musical journey. Songlines #1 covered a splendid Virgin Classics three-CD set that...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Funmi Ti De
Funmi Olawumi has spent the last dozen years singing with various Nigerian ensembles including wedding party favourites the Queens of...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Junk Funk
In a previous Songlines I reviewed Spoek Mathambo's Father Creeper, an extraordinary album that thrillingly reinvented South African township music...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2012
Koima
The West first heard the guitarist and singer Sidi Touré, from Gao in northern Mali, in 1996 when Stern’s released...
Reviewed in issue October/2012
Biyedi
With a griot ancestry and over 30 years of records to his name, Kerfala Kanté deserves his high regard in...
Reviewed in issue October/2012
Highlife Roots Revival
Palm-wine music was the acoustic precursor of Ghanaian highlife and was named after a homemade alcoholic beverage. Koo Nimo, now...
Reviewed in issue October/2012
Kuetumbari
Guitarist Jeannot Bel is one of a handful of fine Congolese musicians based in the UK who are managing to...
Reviewed in issue October/2012
Songs For Desert Refugees
The conflict in the southern Sahara between Malian government forces and the Touareg-led NMLA revolutionary army is reaching crisis point....
Reviewed in issue October/2012
Summertime: Best of Black Umfolosi
Asked to name two southern African a capella choirs, many will struggle after nominating Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Songlines readers might...
Reviewed in issue October/2012
