Reviews
Crocodile Blues
Songhai Blues, Samba Touré's debut album of two years ago, was sub-titled ‘Homage To Ali Farka Touré’; the late guitarist...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Hugh Masekela Presents: Songs Of Migration
Last year, Hugh Masekela and the theatre director James Ngcobo staged Songs Of Migration at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg,...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Halleli N'Dakarou
This autumn's surprise from Africa comes from Banjul in the Gambia, in the shape of a band who are described...
Reviewed in issue Nov/Dec/2011
Journey Through Time
On the one hand it's perhaps difficult to see quite why the world needs another Afrobeat band, replicating the 1970s...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Gagner l'Argent Français
Malian singer Mamani Keita made her name in electro-roots music with her collaboration with French musician Marc Minelli on the...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Maisha Ni Matamu
Samba Mapangala & Orchestra Virunga
Although originating from the Congo in Central Africa, the singer Samba Mapangala is better known amongst Swahili-speaking East African fans...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
The Secret
In the past, some of Vieux Farka Touré's guitar playing has steered perilously close to the self-indulgent and generic, particularly...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
Afro-Latin: Via Kinshasa
The hard part about putting together a killer compilation of music is not selecting the tracks, it's getting the licensing...
Reviewed in issue October/2011
